Jessica Mouzo

In 11 years there will be more than 27 million people in the country with excess weight or obesity, which will mean an additional cost to the health system of €3 billion

A pediatric unit in a Catalan hospital uses a radio-controlled toy vehicle to reduce stress in children

Schools and businesses are taking measures to ensure they are not affected by the protests and strikes against the event

Health professionals, university professors, students and civil servants protested in Barcelona Thursday

Pressure is mounting on regional Catalan premier Quim Torra as strikes enter their third day

Temperatures reached over 46ºC in some areas; meteorology service announces onset of cooler weather

Anti-vaxxer movement in the Catalan capital has a following of several hundred families, but population is protected due to the high prevalence of immunization

Spain’s National Transplant Organization concludes 2012 procedure on former soccer player Éric Abidal, from a living donor, was carried out “in accordance with the law”

A probe has been opened after wiretaps of former Barça president Sandro Rosell suggest donor for Éric Abidal was not his cousin, as had been claimed, and that the organ was paid for

Academic tests show that Catalan students have the same or better language skills as students across Spain

Regional system shed 2,400 jobs and lost 1,100 hospital beds under former premier Artur Mas

Associations hope activities will ensure voting centers are not shut down for the independence referendum

Catalan police will not block access to voting stations if there is risk of street unrest

With 200 such substance-abuse cases registered in 2016, City Council opts to tackle phenomenon

Non-profit group warns that over half-a-million minors spend their afternoons and evenings on their own

Under the slogan, “Enough excuses” some 160,000 people urge authorities to fulfill EU quotas

Regional parliament approves motion to debate proposal to change Spanish penal code

A total of 60 minors in Catalonia have been infected, and two remain in serious condition

Catalan authorities say gastroenteritis virus must have tainted water at bottling plant in nearby Andorra

Health officials say a norovirus was found in patients who got sick from a product made in nearby Andorra

The infected patient, who lives in Catalonia, contracted disease on visit to Colombia

Juan José had six months to live before the surgery, the first of its kind in Spain since 2005

Child’s parents had not vaccinated him despite free service from health authorities He became the first case of the disease seen in Spain since 1987

Health officials say they will not charge family for rare treatment that had to be flown in The six-year-old continues to fight for his life in intensive care at Barcelona hospital

Catalan health authorities are monitoring 150 people who have had recent contact with him

Young boy from Olot had not been vaccinated despite free service from health authorities

Rights groups and circus associations clash over proposal to ban animals in big tops