Healthy Spain!

• 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.
• 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.