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Ordem dos Médicos and Ordem dos Nutricionistas Move to Force Practitioners to Choose Between Medicine and 'Integrative' Therapies — Both Bodies Confirm Deontological-Code Revisions and Push for a Legislative Crackdown on Pseudoscience

Ordem dos Médicos and Ordem dos Nutricionistas Move to Force Practitioners to Choose Between Medicine and 'Integrative' Therapies — Both Bodies Confirm Deontological-Code Revisions and Push for a Legislative Crackdown on Pseudoscience

Both orders confirmed to Público on 27 April they will rewrite their deontological codes to draw a hard line around medicine and recognised nutrition. Luís Cunha Miranda: practitioners 'will have to choose'. Carla Pedrosa: safety of unvalidated supplements is 'zero'.
The Portugal Brief
Just One in Three Portuguese Family Doctors Feels Fully Prepared to Insert an IUD or Implant — A 220-GP Survey Surfaces a Procedural Gap in SNS Long-Acting Contraception

Just One in Three Portuguese Family Doctors Feels Fully Prepared to Insert an IUD or Implant — A 220-GP Survey Surfaces a Procedural Gap in SNS Long-Acting Contraception

A new Portuguese survey of 220 family doctors finds only 31.8% feel completely prepared to place long-acting reversible contraceptives — IUDs, intrauterine systems and subdermal implants. The WHO classes these methods as first-line, and the SNS pushes them. The training gap sits in primary care.
The Portugal Brief