Around 1.6 million women who have taken a desogestrel-based contraceptive pill (the brands Antigone, Cerazette, Elfasette, and Optimizette) will receive a personalized email to inform them, as a precaution, of the “very slight increase in risk” of developing meningioma, a tumor in the meninges, generally benign.
Twenty-seven deans of scientific faculties and directors of polytechnic schools from the universities of Barcelona, Autònoma de Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, Politècnica de Catalunya, and Rovira i Virgili have issued a statement this Thursday calling for a sustained educational commitment over time and independent of political cycles.
Next year universities will receive the students who took the PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) in 2025 and who showed a significant drop in performance in reading, mathematics, and science, losing between one and one and a half school years compared to young people three years older than them.
Suicide mortality has decreased in Catalonia for the third consecutive year, while the number of attempts treated by emergency services also shows a reduction, for the first time in recent years. The Department of Health is preparing a second plan to strengthen prevention and early detection.
Under the motto “When the territory is the ingredient,” the event reinforces an idea increasingly valued by the food and tourism industry: gastronomic excellence is born not only from technique but also from the landscape, the product, and local identity. This year’s edition arrives with a clear narrative and a well-defined strategy. Andorra Taste is not limited to bringing together renowned chefs; it builds a discourse around high mountain gastronomy as an economic, cultural, and tourist asset. In a market where origin, authenticity, and sustainability are already consumer demands, the Andorran festival fits precisely. Its proposal connects with an audience seeking experiences with content, prestige, and a sense of territory.
The new iPhone Duo, Apple’s first foldable phone, took center stage at the company’s presentation at the Steve Jobs Theater in Apple Park. The cost of the new device is much higher than that of a single fixed-screen device. In addition to the extra materials, such as the dual screens, one 5.4 inches and the other 7.6 inches, it requires more battery to power them. The total cost is also temporarily increased, in a situation that will last a long time, according to forecasts from the main companies in the sector, due to the price increase caused by the high demand for memory chips for AI data centers.
For some time now, Apple presentations have had few secrets left to reveal before they begin. Apple’s first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, is already an announced reality. A device with a high price that arrives as the first emblem of the company’s new CEO, John Ternus, who on September 1st took over from Tim Cook, the man who has led the company for the past 15 years, since the retirement and passing of co-founder Steve Jobs. He even uttered the three words that characterized his most iconic presentations: “One more thing.”
The offensive by doctors against the framework statute for healthcare professionals promoted by the Ministry of Health has intensified with the call for a strike by physicians starting in October. Meanwhile, the unions will try to halt the initiative led by Minister Mónica García during the parliamentary process.
The PISA Report provides data on 90 educational systems worldwide and ranks them in a final ranking. It does not explain the reasons for the scores. But on this occasion, after the global debacle, it wrote a separate chapter to indicate that the widespread collapse, especially in reading, coincides in time with two phenomena: the widespread use of mobile phones and the use of AI. It links intensive use of artificial intelligence with lower performance. The countries that perform best have used less AI. Spain, in this regard, is a champion in the use and frequency of AI.
OpenAI claims to have found a solution to one of the deepest problems in mathematics that has remained unsolved for 90 years. The company led by Sam Altman has announced that it shares “a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the Millennium Prize Problems,” which represent some of the deepest questions at the forefront of mathematics.