The Lusíadas Albufeira Hospital is the first, and currently only, unit in the Algarve to offer a new technique that has revolutionised the treatment of hemorrhoidal disease, an innovative laser surgery for the treatment of hemorrhoids, otherwise known as piles.
Ryanair boss, Michael O'Leary, spoke on BBC TV today, telling how he was "heartened" by the fact the UK expected to vaccinate everyone over 50 by the end of March, and that Europe would achieve the same by June. As a result, he forecasts Summer 2021 flights to be down just 5% on the pre-coronavirus summer of 2019.
Announced today by Tilray, the company responsible for its production., the National Authority for Medicines and Health Products (Infarmed) have approved the first cannabis-based substance for medicinal purposes in Portugal.
The predicted peak of Covid-19 cases in Portugal is set for next week. Experts also note that hospitalizations will rise until mid-February. As for the contagion numbers, they expect a decline, but a very slow one.
The new state of emergency has been confirmed and will be in effect until 23:59 on 14th February. The ban on movement between municipalities to combat the pandemic will again also apply for the next three weekends, between 8pm Fridays to 5am on Mondays.
The parliament votes today, in a final global vote, on the decriminalization of medically assisted death in Portugal, after an attempt by the PSD to postpone the last minute, but without success.
More than half a million people living in Granada, southern Spain, experienced three earthquakes last night, all of a magnitude greater than four degrees followed by 30 smaller aftershocks.
Portugal is currently sitting top in the world for the most new cases and new deaths due to Covid-19, but if “the confinement lasts for two months, normality may return as early as May” predicts Henrique Oliveira, mathematician and professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST).
