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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.

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.

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.

The FBI considers her a top-priority terrorist threat. Europol monitors her due to her transnational nature and extreme danger. She is called 764 and is a nihilistic violent extremism network that uses the internet to recruit and sexually exploit minors, subject them to extortion, and, in some cases, induce them to self-harm or participate in acts of violence.

50 kilometers from Zaragoza, the town of Tauste, with 6,800 inhabitants, is known in the region for its Mudéjar heritage, its livestock industry, and traditions such as the dance, which is celebrated every April 21. But in the last week, its name has become famous for the murder in their home of Javier Sánchez (67 years old) and Esther Latorre (66), a well-known couple of agricultural unionists deeply committed to social causes. To the initial, profound, and painful impact, the arrest of their daughter Carlota (40) and her partner, Luis Carlos R. (31), as suspects was soon added; they have been in provisional detention since Thursday.

The former Black professor at the University of Cambridge Jason Arday, at the center of a high-profile plagiarism scandal marked by accusations of racism, was found dead on Friday. His family has been denouncing a “campaign of harassment” against him for weeks.

The Plaza of Palma Cathedral, an excellent viewpoint to the sea from the city walls, is the heart of mass tourism and the point through which surely every one of the 13.6 million tourists who visited Mallorca last year passed. Everyone who comes to the island takes a photo there during their stay. The consequence is that one of the most beautiful places in the city is off-limits to residents, just like other key points of a Palma increasingly hostile to its inhabitants

The Spanish university system has thinned out in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), better known as the Shanghai ranking, which measures the top one thousand universities in the world in terms of scientific production. Numerically, five years ago there were 40 campuses in total and now only 30 appear. From the 2025 to the 2026 publication, eight Spanish universities have dropped out (including Carlos III and Lleida), although two new ones have entered (Juan Carlos I and Valladolid).

An earthquake of magnitude 5 was felt in the early hours of this Saturday in southern Spain, with its epicenter in the municipality of Alhendín in the province of Granada, Andalusia, and it has caused various material damages, but no injuries.

The forest fire in Las Peñas de Riglos (Huesca) has forced the evacuation of the towns of Anzánigo and Atarés. Train traffic between Ayerbe and Sabiñánigo has also been temporarily suspended, the Government of Aragón reported this Friday.