Windpipe transplant breakthrough . (NEW)

Surgeons in Spai, (Barcelona), have made the first tissue transplant. They have constrycted this with the stem cells of the patient. Claudia Castillo needed the transplant to save a lung after contracting tuberculosis. The disease had damaged her airways. Now she can do a normal life. To make the new airway, the doctors took a donor windpipe, or trachea, from a patient who had recently died. Surgeons can now start to see and understand the potential for adult stem cells and tissue engineering to radically improve their ability to treat patients with serious diseases.

Wednesday, 19 November 2008.
BBC News.

Nadal Has Knee Tendinitis, Doubtful for Davis Cup. (NEW).

Nadal, winner of a fourth straight French Open title and his first Wimbledon championship, withdrew from the Paris Masters on Friday with a knee problem after losing the first set of his quarterfinal match against Nikolai Davydenko.He has tendinitis in his right knee and could be in doubt for Spain's Davis Cup final against Argentina. Medical tests Tuesday confirmed the tendinitis, and Spain team doctor Angel Ruiz-Cotorro said the player would undergo treatment until Saturday. They don't know if Nadal be able to play...

New York Times.

5-11-08

Keith Haring's legacy! (New)

In Barcelona they celebrated that Keith Haring went to Barcelona. He painted in only five hours a mural in a wall. This drawings denunced the illness that ended his life. The "Obra Social Caixa Terrassa" commemorated this event with a video that it presented the creation process of the mural called -Together we can stop aids-. His drawings were on rough black and they protested about topics. Also it remembered the shops that he made where he sold cheap objects. Finally in this new says that an american artist was his influence.

In this new I learnt some words!

Curated = "fundat".
Aids = Sida.
Rough = not polite.
Praised = when you see somebody because he or she do something that you like it.