Healthcare system, public health, medical news, and wellness updates from Portugal.
The IGAS has opened an inspection of Unilabs Seixal | Amora over how it carries out and reports pregnancy scans. A morphology scan report flagged poor image quality yet called the hands apparently normal, and the mother says no one told her to repeat it.
Infarmed data show pharmacies sold 132 million euros of obesity medicines from January to June, a record 731,000 euros a day, with Mounjaro three quarters of sales. Patients pay full price until a limited 15 percent scheme starts in February 2027.
Lisbon's São José Hospital has a new 30-bed unit in its main A&E for patients waiting for a ward bed, plus three doctors, 19 nurses and 12 other staff. Observation rooms rise from five to 14, and 58 patients used the beds in three days.
The man, triaged yellow with a 60-minute target, was found unconscious in the waiting room when he was called at 04:40. IGAS is to open an inquiry; the ULS Algarve says he was frail but never alone, and is holding its own.
A national survey for the Ordem dos Médicos finds 29.9 percent of adults did not get care in a reasonable time last year, and that the 48 percent with the worst health find it hardest to keep regular follow-up. Here is what the study found and how to get into the system.
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.
SESARAM says four people in a residential area of Câmara de Lobos have tuberculosis and are isolated, with an investigation under way. Here is how contact screening works, the warning signs, and Madeira's SRS24h line.
