HEALTHY NEWS!!!

• Spain has become a model to be taken by other countries since it has been the world leader in organ donations for more than fifteen years.

• Our school, I.E.S. Realejos has been participating in a local programme called ‘Emotional-Sexual Plan’ for several years. With this programme our students receive a lot of information an advice about emotional and sexual relations.

• Our school  also participates in a public health programme called ‘ITES’.  This programme aimed at secondary school students is against smoking and consists of several workshops throughout the school year to make young people aware of the risks of smoking.

• Researchers from the Canaries have been awarded for discovering molecules against cancer in plants that grow at the road sides of the Canary Islands.

• Biologist Noelia Alonso from Gran Canaria in Canary Islands has been awarded by Biogen Idec Foundation for discovering a protein related to the origin of self immune disease.

• Four researchers from the university of Basque Country in Spain have been awarded for making advances in the treatment of Alzheimer.

• The first baby without a gene linked to cancer has been born in Spain recently.