Francesc Augé, a 56-year-old resident of Vallirana and euthanasia applicant, has been admitted to a hospital in the province of Barcelona after attempting to take his own life at home. According to Cadena SER, the events occurred last Sunday, when he was alone in his home and sent a farewell message to one of his contacts, who was unable to reach him the following morning.
The professional association Unión de Militares de Tropa (UMT) has reported in a statement that at least 14 soldiers deployed in Ceuta have suffered an outbreak of scabies. The UMT directly points to the “poor conditions in which the personnel were housed last Saturday, August 15” in some old military facilities.
It is a complex reform, as is everything related to medicines and health products, due to its enormous economic implications for the system (more than 32,000 million euros per year), for the industry, innovation, and especially for what it means for the health of citizens.
In a world that seems dominated by so-called influencers and artificial intelligence, Leonor has claimed the value of the “natural intelligents.” The princess, in the speech at the Princesa de Girona awards ceremony held at the Liceu, confessed that her favorite influencers, the people who inspire and influence her “are not characters considered successful or famous or glamorous, nor do they have the official label of aspirational nor measure their worth by certain achievements they post on their networks,” but rather those who “fall in love with problems with the intention of solving them; who tell something important with talent and accompany their craziness with rigor, discipline, and critical thinking.”
The Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices (Aemps) has banned the sale and ordered the withdrawal from the market of all units of about twenty slimming products for containing sibutramine, an active ingredient suspended in the EU since 2010 due to its association with several serious adverse effects.
La Torre Galatea of the Teatre-Museu Dalí in Figueres became the painter’s last place of residence after the fire in Púbol. Salvador Dalí lived there from 1984 until his death in 1989, and experts on his work say that from his room he watched how the evening light transformed the textures of the stone into a play of shadows on the exterior walls of the museum. On these same walls, photographs and audiovisual fragments of Dalí and his complex universe are projected until August 23, in a play of lights, images, music, and sounds, including the voices of Dalí and a brief fragment of Gala, in the only sound document known to the foundation.
The American laboratories Merck and Moderna announced this Wednesday positive results in the final phase of clinical trials of their experimental messenger RNA vaccine against skin cancer, aimed at patients with advanced stage melanoma. “This is the first announcement of positive phase 3 results (…) for an mRNA-based cancer therapy,” Merck and Moderna state in a joint statement.
The European Commission recommends that Spain limit the use of the reduced VAT and specifically points to hotels and restaurants, as, in its view, these preferential rates have a “very limited redistributive effect” on society despite their high cost to the State. That is, they benefit higher incomes more than lower ones because they consume it the most, according to community sources. Meanwhile, the impact of this tax that is not collected is enormous: the 10% VAT for hospitality is costing Spain 0.4% of GDP, or the equivalent of almost 7 billion euros each year.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming one of the major battlegrounds in the geostrategic and technological arenas between two of the great superpowers. The United States and China clash over the development of AI on several fronts. While Donald Trump opposes any restrictions on AI development, in China they are also unwilling to let anyone control their companies in this field.
Work emails, family chats, groups of friends organizing trips, birthdays, gatherings. To that hodgepodge of interactions that force one to look at the mobile screen is added, especially for young people, another tie to the digital world: keeping an actively stimulating conversation, exuding enough charisma and charm, to seduce —or show interest in— the person one wants to approach. Dating in these times, for many, represents another type of virtual slavery.
