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14 February 2020 05:32 PM

Melitta Jakab, a member of the WHO office in Barcelona, during an event to discuss health planning in Catalonia, February 14, 2020 (Blanca Blay)

WHO says Catalan government can do more against smoking and obesity

World Health Organization approves Catalonia's health planning but recommends tackling new challenges like climate change 

Society

07 February 2020 01:16 PM

Barcelona's Sagrada Família surrounded by smog on July 1, 2019 (Nazaret Romero/ACN)

Half of childhood asthma cases in Barcelona due to air pollution

ISGlobal study finds Catalan capital has one of highest rates in Europe, with children of wealthier families hit hardest

Society

05 February 2020 07:16 PM

Researchers at IsriCaixa Lab (by ACN)

Study identifies profile of patient capable of controlling HIV without treatment for 25 years

Catalan researchers among team studying three infected people who show no signs of virus despite not taking antiretroviral drugs

Tech & Science

30 January 2020 08:30 PM

Àngel Font, from La Caixa; Quique Bassat, chair of the steering committee of the Global Forum on Child Pneumonia; Carmen Molina, UNICEF; Kevin Watkins, Save the Children UK, at a press conference in Barcelona (by Laura Fíguls)

Barcelona global pneumonia forum aims to avert millions of child deaths

First ever congress in Catalan capital explores ways of tackling disease that claimed the lives of 800,000 children last year

Tech & Science

30 January 2020 02:50 PM

A train passenger wears a face mask in Hong Kong (by REUTERS / Tyrone Siu)

New Year celebrations and flights canceled as Catalonia continues to deal with coronavirus threat

Organizers of the Mobile World Congress assure the trade fair will go ahead, while manufacturers struggle to meet demand for face masks

Society

29 January 2020 08:20 PM

Parliament speaker, Roger Torrent, and Vice President of the Government, Pere Aragonès, showing the Generalitat's budgets on their cell phones (by Gerard Artigas)

Government's 2020 budget foresees rise in spending and revenue

Proposed bill to be passed before fresh Catalan election sees health and education take the lion's share of €36bn in public funds 

Politics

28 January 2020 02:47 PM

Image of a corridor in Hospital del Mar, with Dr Robert Güerri and a patient on April 3, 2019 (by Laura Fíguls)

First suspected case of coronavirus in Catalonia

A 33-year-old man from Wuhan had been admitted to hospital with symptoms but tests proved he did not have the virusThe first suspected case of coronavirus in Catalonia has been discarded after health tests on the patient showed he did not have...

09 October 2019 12:11 PM

The movement is in collaboration with the star's “The Ricky Rubio Foundation” (by Laura Fíguls)

Basketball star Ricky Rubio leads anti-tobacco programme for young smokers

As tobacco consumption increases to 25.6% in Catalonia, new campaign seeks to stop it at source

Society

09 September 2019 06:03 PM

Those supporting the initiative include MotoGP champion Marc Márquez and actor Josep Maria Pou (by Pol Solà)

Barcelona Clinic seeks donations to train eye doctors in developing countries

The hospital has become the first public university center in Europe after creating a teaching center in the surgical area

Tech & Science

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