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Health minister hedges her bets on idea of co-payment
In her first parliamentary appearance, Health Minister Ana Mato said she would seek a broad agreement to ensure the sustainability of the public health system. Although she did not rule out a national co-payment system, neither did she say it would def…
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Catholic blogger publishes list of transsexual surgery patients
An online Catholic publication, religionenlibertad.com, earlier this month revealed the names of 22 people who have received gender-reassignment operations at Madrid’s La Paz hospital.
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Medical group accused of "privatizing transplants"
The head of Spain’s National Transplant Organization (ONT) is denouncing a German group that, he argues, “wants to privatize bone marrow transplants.”
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Back to basics as coal power rises
Renewables may be the future, but Spain’s energy output continues to depend heavily on traditional sources, says the country’s national grid. The report for 2001 by REE, the operator of the Spanish electrical grid, says that the largest single contribu…
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Healthcare costs to fall by six percent per capita this year
Spain’s regions, which are being urged to rein in their spending in 2012 to meet central government deficit targets, forecast that they will spend an average of six percent less per inhabitant on healthcare this year, which, coupled with cutbacks alrea…
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Spain smashes transplant record with 94 operations in three days
“It was like breaking the record three days in a row,” said the director of the National Transplants Organization (ONT), Rafael Matesanz after a frantic 72 hours witnessed 94 transplants take place in 42 hospitals across 14 of Spain’s 17 regions and ne…
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New El Hierro evacuations as experts forecast big earthquakes
The village of La Restinga, on the island of El Hierro, was evacuated for the second time in under a month due to renewed seismic activity. Mayor Juan Manuel Padrón said it was a preventive measure in case experts’ forecasts of magnitude six quakes ca…
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Poll finds no evidence of morning-after pill abuse
Two years after the government lifted the requirement for a prescription to buy the morning-after pill, data shows that women have not been abusing this emergency contraceptive as some people feared. A survey commissioned by the Spanish Contraception S…
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Trials of Spanish HIV vaccine offer cause for optimism
A new experimental HIV vaccine being tested at Spanish hospitals has yielded good results at a Phase I clinical trial, offering some hope where most other drugs have failed.
Popular Party’s La Mancha region sitting on welfare funds
The government of Castilla-La Mancha owes money to 40,000 people who collect disability checks each month under the Dependency Law. Since June, regional authorities have not only failed to pay their share of the 22 million euros, but they have also wit…
First-ever order given to remove life-support tube
In the first case of its kind in Spain, the local health department of Huelva, Andalusia, on Tuesday ordered a hospital to remove a nasogastric tube from a patient, Ramona Estévez, on the wishes of her family.