ULS Gaia/Espinho has scanned 1,083 heavy smokers and ex-smokers aged 55 to 74 and found 12 lung cancers with no symptoms. It now joins TIME4LUNG, an 8.7 million euro project testing a blood sample as a first step before the low-dose CT scan.
Cancer patients on sick leave get 55 to 75 percent of their pay. A Forvis Mazars study for the Liga Portuguesa Contra o Cancro puts the net cost of paying them 100 percent at about 14 million euros, or 1.4 percent of sickness benefit spending.
Infarmed refused a co-payment for Nilemdo and Nustendi and kept the rare-disease drug Evkeeza out of hospitals over price, but approved Elahere after a deal.
The newly published ruling says the Central Alentejo health unit signed a deal with ATRYS without the studies and approvals a public-private partnership needs. Évora's unit has been shut since 1 June.
Spending on oncology medicines in Portugal's public hospitals has more than tripled in ten years. In the first four months of 2026, hospitals spent EUR915.1 million on medicines, of which EUR320.1 million - about 35% - went on cancer drugs, raising fresh questions about how the SNS funds costly inno
The OECD's new flagship report on non-communicable diseases — Os Benefícios para a Saúde e a Economia do Combate às Doenças não Transmissíveis — lands this week with a hard number for Portugal: roughly 4.12% of GDP every year between 2026 and 2050...
