Impact of obesity on foot health
Obesity is one of the biggest health problems facing the country, and it’s our lower limbs and feet which bear the brunt of being overweight. As part of The College
Aspirin revisited
The good old aspirin … A real survivor, with extensive usage, from pain relief to preventative medicine. Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) was first produced in tablet form in 1901, more than
Diabetes: how to control blood sugar
According to the World Health Organisation, diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs either when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin or when the body cannot effectively use the
1,000 in Portugal at risk of Chagas disease
It has an unusual name – due to the surname of its founder – but the insidious Latin-American Chagas disease now threatens as many as a 1,000 people in Portugal.
Ebola strategy
Braced for an encounter with the deadly Ebola virus, Portugal’s director general of health Francisco George says the country is prepared and has a strategy in place. Only last month,
Portugal’s Aids cases down, but still worrying
The number of Aids cases in Portugal dropped significantly in 2013, but the prevalence of the disease is still high in European terms, Health Minister Paulo Macedo told a conference
Paediatrics ambulance
The new paediatric critical-care ambulance, reported to be on the way to the Algarve, has now arrived and is being jointly operated by the CHA health administration and INEM emergency
Nurse power
New Ministry of Health plans aim to see a “broadening of the current competencies of nurses” as another way of reducing costs in state hospitals. President of the association of
170 ‘avoidable deaths’ in hospital surgeries every year
As many as 346 patients die in surgeries every year – and half this number could be avoided. The shock findings came in a preliminary report issued by the Portuguese
Ancient angiographs
Half the angiographs used in Portugal’s hospitals are past their ‘sell-by’ dates. According to a new report on large-scale hospital equipment, 22 of the country’s 44 angiographs are over 10