Paulo Santos is an integrated researcher at CINTESIS - Center for Health Technology and Services Research, where he leads the PrimeCare research group, as well as the METIS and HYGEIA projects, which he combines with teaching and his practice as family doctor. He was born 47 years ago at the Alfredo da Costa Maternity Hospital in [...]
"LGBTI people (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual and Intersex) still continue to experience stigma and discrimination that often become a significant barrier to access to health care and social care” said the CINTESIS researcher Constança Paúl to the Lusa agency. The declarations were made by the principal investigator in the scope of the official presentation of the project [...]
A study developed by researchers from CINTESIS/University of Aveiro reveals that the human memory retains better objects used by sick people than objects used by healthy people. According to the published results, the greater ease in memorizing potentially contaminating objects can be explained by the functioning of a behavioral immune system that aims to "prevent contact [...]
A group of Portuguese researchers concluded that 85% of the patients who have had a heart attack suffer cognitive impairment and that about half of those have deficits deemed serious. Bruno Peixoto, CINTESIS reseracher and e professor at CESPU, talked about the study in the program Mentes que Brilham of the Porto Canal. Watch the full [...]
