The Local Spain https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Spanish musician plays saxophone as surgeons remove brain tumour A jazz musician played his saxophone during an operation to remove a tumour to enable brain surgeons to monitor the neurological activity. https://www.thelocal.es/20151217/spanish-musician-played-saxophone-while-surgeons-removed-tumour-from-his-brain Thu, 17 Dec 2015 12:31:22 +0100 spanish-musician-played-saxophone-while-surgeons-removed-tumour-from-his-brain 'They gave me C-section without anaesthesia' A woman in Spain is planning to take legal action against doctors who performed an emergency caesarean section without anesthetics. https://www.thelocal.es/20140319/they-gave-me-c-section-without-anaestesiamum Wed, 19 Mar 2014 15:59:00 +0100 they-gave-me-c-section-without-anaestesiamum Wanted UK paedophile arrested in Canaries Police on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria on Thursday arrested a British pensioner wanted for sex crimes involving minors. He had been travelling using his brother's passport. https://www.thelocal.es/20140102/british-paedophile-arrested-in-canary-islands Thu, 02 Jan 2014 17:55:04 +0100 british-paedophile-arrested-in-canary-islands Giant 25kg tumour cut from woman's ovary Surgeons in Spain successfully removed a giant benign tumour weighing 25 kilograms (55 pounds) from the womb of a 47-year-old woman, the hospital treating her said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.es/20131204/giant-25kg-tumour-cut-from-womans-ovary Wed, 04 Dec 2013 17:40:00 +0100 giant-25kg-tumour-cut-from-womans-ovary Transsexual wins state-paid sex change op Spain's Supreme Court has forced the government of Galicia to pay for a sex change operation in a landmark ruling. https://www.thelocal.es/20130905/transsexual-wins-state-paid-sex-change-op Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:14:11 +0200 transsexual-wins-state-paid-sex-change-op Man loses memory after liposuction slip A surgeon and anaesthetist in Majorca have been ordered to pay €160,217 ($210,000) in compensation to a man who suffered post short-term memory loss after a botched liposuction procedure. https://www.thelocal.es/20130627/man-loses-memory-after-liposuction-slip Thu, 27 Jun 2013 14:37:00 +0200 man-loses-memory-after-liposuction-slip