A visitor brutally assaults an officer at the Brians 2 Penitentiary Center

A visitor brutally assaults an officer at the Brians 2 Penitentiary Center

An officer of the Brians 2 Penitentiary Center suffered a brutal attack this Sunday by a visitor. According to the Catalan Prison Union (SICAP-FEPOL), the woman hit, bit, scratched, and pulled out locks of hair from the worker, whom she also threatened with death. Additionally, during the incident another visitor, a relative of an 86-year-old inmate, was injured while trying to separate the victim from her attacker.

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The patient's frailty, not age, will determine medical treatments

The patient’s frailty, not age, will determine medical treatments

In 2022, Agustí Rovira, a resident of Valldoreix (Barcelona), became the first nonagenarian to receive a kidney transplant in Spain. Normally his candidacy would have been discarded due to age, but the specialists at the Clínic hospital concluded that the patient’s good physical condition and the optimal state of his arteries and blood vessels guaranteed the viability of the transplant. In the near future, the ID will not be, as it has been until now, the determining factor when deciding treatments, but the degree of frailty of the patients.

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The president of Ceuta attacks the Government again and threatens to go to the judiciary

The president of Ceuta attacks the Government again and threatens to go to the judiciary

The president of Ceuta, the popular Juan Jesús Vivas, has reiterated his criticisms of the Government, which he has accused of “whitewashing the reality” that the autonomous city is experiencing, and has announced that he will turn to “other State instances,” including the judiciary, if the Executive does not resolve the crisis within 30 days.

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The gang of clandestine toilets already controls 34 illegal luxury tourist rooms in Barcelona

The gang of clandestine toilets already controls 34 illegal luxury tourist rooms in Barcelona

A few inspectors and police officers from the Barcelona City Council proceed to seal one of the most prized illegal tourist accommodations of the gang known as the clandestine toilets. It is one of the crown jewels of this organization, a traditionally high-ceilinged home recently renovated and over one hundred square meters located on València street, at the height of Aribau street, in the heart of the Eixample district. All this happened a few days ago.

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The brain, on the verge of its Ozempic moment

The brain, on the verge of its Ozempic moment

Recently, a peptide has transformed medicine. Drugs based on glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), a hormone released by the intestine after a meal, started as treatments for diabetes before proving especially effective in helping people lose weight. Since then, they have also shown benefits in treating heart, kidney, sleep apnea, and other conditions. Now, pharmaceutical companies are betting that two other peptides, orexins, could follow a similar path in various brain-related diseases.

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Beach plastic archaeology: ‘vintage’ objects without an expiration date (but with a return date)

Beach plastic archaeology: ‘vintage’ objects without an expiration date (but with a return date)

The commercial boom of pop and lovintage design can lead someone to feel nostalgia for some elements of the past. A bottle of Vernel, another of Delial, Yoplait yogurts, or the first Matutano ham-flavored chips. Faced with this reality, the nostalgic citizen can turn to collector websites to find these objects or — unfortunately — take a walk along the Spanish coasts. With a bit of luck, they might find designs from decades ago buried in the sand after being returned by the sea.

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