Author: Dr Maria Alice

It’s summertime. Time for the beach, the sun, dining “al fresco” and … mosquitoes! There is no doubt about it, mosquitoes are annoying. What is worse, their bites sometimes transmit

In the summer, drinking plenty water is essential to your health. Life takes place in an aqueous solution as the cells, the basic bricks that construct the human body, are

Time. Life. Health. Love. Friendship. Fortune. These are extreme values for our existence on Earth. But none of these are permanent as, many times, when we think we have them,

Do you remember? There was a song and a film. These three things are stereotypically connected, and one cannot be separated from the others as the general idea is that

You must remember this The fundamental things apply As time goes by No matter what the future brings As time goes by It’s still the same old story A fight

Every new year we set about making new year’s resolutions. Usually they are related to our physical health, going on a diet, joining a gym or drinking less. But what

“From now on, our troubles will be miles away,” says the Christmas carol. Sensational indeed, all troubles will vanish when the Christmas feeling starts blowing them all away. It sounds

There is something more important than enumerating diseases one by one; something more important that we must deal with every day: people who are ill, who feel ill, who suffer

Around 400 B.C., Hippocrates is said to have named masses of cancerous cells karkinos — Greek for crab. Why did he use that word? A malignant tumour is usually hard

I recently read an article in a very well-known Portuguese newspaper on the use of statins by a Portuguese Cardiology Professor, Dr. Fausto Pinto, who was the President of the