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One of the survivors in Spain of the free distribution press is the specialized publication Diario Médico, which has been disseminating health issues among professionals of the National Health System for 25 years. We did an exploratory-descriptive study about its origins and current situation, paying attention to its labour in paper, through the printed product, and in Red, through diariomedico.com. The techniques are the interview with its deputy director and the analysis of its products. The mixed format defines Diario Médico: it maintains its commitment to offer information on paper, despite having reduced the periodicity from daily to weekly; leads its paper readers to Orbyt, the digital press kiosk of the promoter group, Unidad Editorial, where it offers seven pages a day in pdf format with information for subscribers, and on the Web, with an edition that opens to the participation of the user. The informative tone of its contents and its usefulness for society, together with the growing interest of the non-specialized public in medicine and health, lead to Diario Médico, in our opinion, to have a double objective public: society in general and professionals of the System in particular. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses deeply the news related to Food Safety published throughout 2014 in the four newspapers of greatest diffusion in the Galician Community in order to know their journalistic treatment and the most relevant topics. The most recurrent themes were Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries. The Sea section was the one that included the largest number of news due to the importance of the fishing sector in Galicia. Information such as the distribution of fishing quotas or the Russian veto to European agricultural-food products was monitored continuously. News, related to nutrition and health, were also frequently published, highlighting the beneficial effect of the consumption of foods included in the Atlantic diet. Although serious food risks did not occur, the analyzed press also collected widely the health alert in France attributed initially to the consumption of Galician mussels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

E-health is the application of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to the field of healthcare. One of the most significant branches is telemedicine, which is the use of new technologies to provide healthcare remotely. The purpose of this paper is to establish what image telemedicine has, using the theories of agenda setting and framing, both of which come from the area of communication. To do so, a content analysis of the Spanish press was carried out over 5 years (2010-2015), using both general and specialist press sources (El País, El Mundo, ABC, Diario Médico and Gaceta Médica). The results show that telemedicine is not widely covered in the media and features more often in sections other than health. The main issues which it is linked to are: developments in telemedicine and, on the other hand, input from the world of politics, with particular emphasis on the future possibilities for telemedicine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]