Albufeira is municipality with most public access defibrillators
Albufeira is the municipality in Portugal with the most automated external defibrillators (AEDs), with 11 AEDs available per 10,000 inhabitants compared to a national average of four AEDs per 10,000.
Health warning as mainland affected by dust from Sahara
Portugal’s DGS health authority has recommended that children, elderly, people with chronic respiratory problems and cardiovascular patients stay indoors whenever possible today and tomorrow due to concentrations of dust in
People’s health movement arrives in Portugal
People’s Health Alliance has mushroomed from a start in UK to become a global initiative sparking interest across 31 countries As State health services throughout the developed world appear to
Pharmacies want new powers, to help with health service overload
Pharmacies want to be able to perform tests to screen for infections, and act as a form of 1st stop triage before people go to hospitals. This way, the sector’s
World Health Organisation to open centre of excellence in Porto
The World Health Organization (WHO) is to set up a centre of excellence for new technologies and entrepreneurship in health in Porto, Portugal’s minister of health announced in today, stressing
New cases of cancer in Portugal correspond to ⅔ of annual births
Cancers are main cause of premature death in Portugal World Cancer Day has seen Portugal’s deputy director general of Health stress that the roughly 60,000 new cases of cancer discovered
Portuguese biotech firm seeks to launch Chinese drug to combat Parkinson’s
Portuguese pharmaceutical company Tecnophage intends to launch a supplement in Europe this year with “very promising” results in Parkinson’s disease, based on research from the University of Macau on a
Prices of cheaper medicines to rise 5% “to avoid stocks running out”
Strategy designed to “promote access to medication in Portugal” In Portugal, the prices of the cheapest medicines are to increase by 5% to facilitate access to them and avoid situations
Lusíadas Albufeira Hospital buys state-of-the-art mammography system
Lusíadas Albufeira Hospital has purchased a new “state-of-the-art” mammography system which provides “a more accurate, comfortable mammogram with a lower dose of radiation”. Says the private hospital group, the “high
Director General of Health Graça Freitas decorated with “Grande Cross of Order of Merit”
Outgoing director general of health Graça Freitas – a doctor who ‘led’ health authorities response to the pandemic while she herself was battling cancer – has been given a heroine’s