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ESTEPONA hospital is set to become fully operational after the Junta pledged to hire 58 new healthcare professionals. The staff boost will bring the total workforce at the facility to 136 workers, according to Andalucian Health Minister Antonio Sanz, who…
MORE than 2,000 women in Andalucia will have undergone necessary breast cancer tests by tomorrow after grave errors in the region’s screening programme. The Junta confirmed in yesterday’s meeting that all women affected by the region’s cancer screening failures will…
PEOPLE are now living to 84 on average in Spain, but new research warns that a large share of those extra years may be spent in poor health. A major population study by Fundacion BBVA and the Valencian Institute of…
A GROUNDBREAKING treatment based on research by Spanish scientists has helped children born with incurable deafness hear for the very first time – a discovery hailed as a breakthrough toward curing genetic hearing loss. In a clinical trial involving 12…
PLANS to ban punters from lighting up cigarettes on bar terraces appear set to get the greenlight after the Spanish government approved a draft version of a new anti-smoking law. Under the proposed legislation, smoking would be banned in enclosed…
HUELIN Park in Malaga has been closed after around 20 dead birds were discovered over the weekend. The discovery has sparked fears of an avian flu outbreak just days after the disease was confirmed in Sevilla. The closure only came…
A RECORD number of 2,177 people in Spain died from heat-related causes in August. That’s a 71.3% increase on the same month in 2024 according to the Daily Mortality Monitoring System (MoMo) from the Carlos III Health Institute. The August…
THE salmonella outbreak at La Manga’s Hotel Cavanna has reached 190 confirmed cases as of Thursday, according to Murcia’s Ministry of Health. 19 people are still admitted to the Santa Lucia Hospital in Cartagena, although some were expected to be…
A GLAMOROUS charity auction in Marbella has raised over €80,000 for impoverished children in Africa. The glittering World Vision Gala at Puente Romano Hotel, saw 360 big-hearted expats and regular visitors to the resort shell out the extraordinary total for…
The AEMPS (Agencia Espanola de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios) has detected impurities within the drug Ludiomil, which contains the active ingredient of maprotiline and is used to treat depression. Produced by the company Cenexi, based in France, the drug is in…
