Castilla Y Leon, Spain News

A team of Canadian and Spanish scientists has found a potential immunological clue to why some people develop severe, sometimes fatal, pneumonia when infected by the H1N1 virus.

El Mundo leads with the news that the President of Mali will be an intermediary with Al Qaeda in talks to try to ensure the release of three Spanish aid workers kidnapped in Mauritania.

More than 28 people have died in in Europe due to a strong winter storm that has hit the area, and 20 of those died in Poland, where the temperatures reached 20 degrees Celsius below zero.

Temperatures in some parts of Spain are set to fall to as low as minus twenty degrees centigrade on Saturday night.

THE Center for Kapampangan Studies announces rare document discovery in Augustinian archives of Valladolid, Spain, which can shed more light on state of Kapampangan language in early days of colonization.

Parts of Galicia, Asturias, Aragon, Castilla La Mancha and Castilla y Leon, are all on orange alert from the Spanish Meteorological Agency AEMET.

An international team of Canadian and Spanish scientists have found the first potential immunological clue of why some people develop severe pneumonia when infected by the pandemic H1N1 virus.

Main Category: Vascular Also Included In: Cancer / Oncology ; Urology / Nephrology ; Biology / Biochemistry Article Date: 15 Dec 2009 - 2:00 PST VASCULAR BIOLOGY: Signaling decreased blood pressure Blood pressure is controlled in part by changes in the radius of blood vessels; when the smooth muscle cells in the wall of a blood vessel contract, the ...

Authorities in Madrid are warning commuters not to use their cars as snow hits the Spanish capital.

The Hungarian Socialist Party MSZP chose 35-year-old Attila Mesterhazy, their current parliamentary caucus leader, as their nominee for prime minister in next spring's elections, the party announced following its Saturday congress.

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, December 10, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- People staying in Salamanca hotels may be intrigued by the Spanish celebration entitled Day of the Innocents.

New Options for When to Treat, How to Treat and How Long to Treat Data Presented at the 2009 Meeting of the American Society of Hematology 25% of Submitted Abstracts this Year Were for Myeloma NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif.

An IT tool written in Virtual Reality Modelling Language format is used in order to visualize a crime scene from any viewpoint in an interactive and three-dimensional way LONDON, UK: Two researchers have developed a method to help forensic experts lift data from crime scenes using just a single photograph.

The results, which are the first of their kind in the Iberian Peninsula, show that the levels rose "significantly" between 2002 and 2005.

A scientist from the University of Salamanca and another from Yale University have shown that the presence of predators affects the behaviour of Acanthodactylus beershebensis , a lizard species from the Negev Desert in the Near East.

Athletic Club Bilbao announced on Tuesday that it has reached an agreement to keep young starlet Iker Muniain at San Mames until the end of June 2015.

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, December 01, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Penguins 2010 is the 29th International Motorcyclists Winter Rally and is expected to draw crowds from all over Europe.

By Cristina Mateo-Yanguas MADRID, Spain a ' A crucifix over the blackboard. An image of the Virgin Mary presiding over a classroom full of students.

A Spanish policeman was shot after surprising several people apparently planting a bomb outside a police barracks in the town of Leitza near the Basque Country before dawn on Sunday, state news agency EFE said.

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