ULS São João's community prescribing pilot starts in three family health units. Doctors refer stable adult patients to local exercise, cooking, culture and social activities through the same system used for medicines and tests, with council teams finding the programmes.
The releases complete a first phase that tracks how far sterile males spread and how long they live in a city. If results are good, a May 2027 study will compare a release zone with a control area.
The DGS healthy eating report shows drinks moving into lower sugar bands every year since 2017, while sales volume rose 33 percent after 2020. It also records a breastfeeding high and, for the first time, what the public would back.
Norma 006/2026 opens the campaign on 30 September and adds two, three and four year olds to the free list. The SNS bought 2.3 million standard doses; pharmacists say the separate private allocation may be smaller than in past years.
A new INE release digs into the 2025 National Health Survey and finds that education pushes preventive care in two opposite directions: the checks a nurse does in the room reach the least educated most, and the tests you have to book yourself reach them least.
Monday's situation report puts Portugal third in Europe on cumulative clade Ib cases and first on recent ones. The last national bulletin the Direcção-Geral da Saúde published is dated 31 May 2025, and it says Portugal had recorded no clade Ib cases at all.
The council found Legionella pneumophila at the Estádio de Sobrado and Legionella spp at a school pavilion in Ermesinde, both during scheduled quarterly testing, with nobody reported ill. Which is precisely why, under Lei 52/2018, neither is legally an outbreak.
