Community/Public Services news & information for Catalonia

UNIQUE sights are among Barcelona's major pulls – the wonderfully-wacky Sagrada Família cathedral, the psychedelic Parc Güell, the Batlló House and the weird Royal Ramblas Hotel, which feels as though your...

IMMUNITY to the SARS-CoV-2 virus from the very moment of administration and suitable for those who cannot tolerate the available vaccines could be the next, very valuable step in the fight against the pandemic – and...

THE FIRST-EVER successful womb transplant from a live donor has been carried out in Spain, and two months later, the recipient appears to be fertile.

AN ARTIFICIAL placenta connected to the umbilical cord could help very premature babies not only to survive, but to develop healthily, according to researchers in Barcelona.

BARCELONA city council is offering up to €1,200 a month to owners of tourist apartments which remain empty so they can house vulnerable families in them.

A WOMAN gave birth to identical twin girls whilst in intensive care at Barcelona's Vall d'Hebron hospital and under sedation after being diagnosed with Covid-19 – and remembers nothing at all about her...

A FRENCH daredevil nicknamed 'Spiderman' has once again climbed Barcelona's Glòries Tower with his bare hands and feet and no equipment whatsoever.

BARCELONA'S Vall d'Hebron hospital has carried out a triple transplant on a child who is now 'living a normal life' – making it the first centre in the world to to so on a non-adult patient.

A GIANT lit-up reindeer in the Barcelona-province town of Viladecans programmed to wish everyone felices fiestas ('Happy holidays') has been 'hacked' and now gives out 'patriotic' anti...

MEN with children will now be entitled to receive an 'upgrade' in permanent disability pensions as well as women following a European Court of Justice ruling.

PRINCESS Leonor earned a standing ovation for her speech last night at the second round of awards named after her – the Princess of Girona prizegiving ceremony in, not Girona, but Barcelona.

THE LINES between life and work sometimes become blurred, but rarely to such an extent as at Barcelona's Vall d'Hebron hospital: seven nurses in the neo-natal unit are all pregnant.