Spain is the number one holiday destination for Brits, with holidaymakers making around 17 million trips there every year.
However, many of those heading to Spain travel with a European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) in the belief that it is a replacement for buying travel insurance and travel insurance website, insurewithease.com, warns that this could be [...]

Slot machines in Catalonia, Spain, will now display health warnings, in a new project funded by the region’s government. The Guardian has reported that every 30 minutes, slots in casinos in Catalonia will display a health warning, suggesting the amount of time the player has been wagering on the slot. Video lottery terminals, which are [...]

One in three Spaniards (32.8%) say they would visit more entertainment venues if, as envisaged in the draft of the new Anti-Tobacco Law of the Ministry of Health, they were completely non-smoking. The data was offered yesterday by the Spanish Society of Family and Community Medicine (semFYC), based on a survey carried out with 2935 [...]

King Juan Carlos underwent a successful operation to remove a small benign growth from his right lung, doctors said yesterday.
The doctors ruled out any possibility the 72-year-old monarch was suffering from any form of lung cancer after the growth was discovered during his yearly medical tests in late April.
“The medical team considered it necessary to [...]

As many as 20% of British tourists taking the plane to Spain end up with tummy pain and other ailments, a survey has shown.
Spain tops the list of countries in which UK holidaymakers fall ill, the survey by health product Bimuno found.
Greece and Egypt are the next destinations where Britons are most likely to be [...]

As many as two hundred British holidaymakers have been taken ill at a hotel in the Canary Islands, following a suspected outbreak of the norovirus.
The Barcelo Santiago Hotel – a four star property on the island of Tenerife – has seen internet forums deluged with complaints following the outbreak, which has seen several patrons hospitalised.
Posting [...]

The winter vomiting bug has been identified as the probable cause of illness of about 15 passengers on a flight from the Canary Islands to Cork at the weekend.
The Health Service Executive was alerted to the fact that a number of passengers were acutely ill on the flight before it arrived from Tenerife at 10.30 [...]

An Austrian study has revealed that testosterone is boosted by vitamin D. The bulk of this essential nutrient is made by the skin on exposure to sunlight.
According to researchers, sunbathing boosts the male sex drive. Scientists at the Medical University of Graz discovered that men with more vitamin D in their blood had more testosterone than [...]