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LISBON – An outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in a large Lisbon hospital has killed two people and made at least another 32 sick since it was first detected a week ago, Portugal's health authority DGS ...
News Portugal » Lisbon » Health: Hospitals and schools shut, flights cancelled: Portugal on general strike
During the night shift, there was an almost complete walkout at several National Health Service hospitals. Many schools are shut and flights have been cancelled. View on euronews ...
News Portugal » Lisbon » Health: Spending less, living longer: What the U.S. can learn from Portugal’s innovative health system
LISBON — Getting to the MRI machine at one of this city’s largest public hospitals means taking a trip through time. Plastic waiting room chairs in radiology sit amid centuries-old blue and white ...
News Portugal » Lisbon » Health: Lisbon drives virus surge as Portugal is chided for failings
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The Lisbon region’s surge in COVID-19 cases is powering ahead, with new infections pushing Portugal’s daily new cases to a four-month high as a report by health experts finds ...
News Portugal » Lisbon » Health: Is Portugal’s drugs policy in need of reform?
But just over 10 years after its introduction, Portugal’s drugs policy started to come under strain as the country’s economic crisis and subsequent austerity measures led to budget cuts for drug ...
News Portugal » Lisbon » Health: How Portugal eased its opioid epidemic, while U.S. drug deaths skyrocketed
Lea Suzuki/San Francisco Chronicle / via Getty Images Talk to people addicted to street drugs in Lisbon, Portugal's capital, and you hear confusion and dismay over the carnage of overdose deaths ...