Viral // Whitening Creams Have Risks and Can Leave Permanent Marks on the Skin
Is the use of whitening creams on the skin recommended or does it have risks? The newspaper Viral wanted to know the answers and asked several experts, including Alberto Mota. The researcher who works at CINTESIS - Center for Health Technology and Services Research and is professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP) talks about [...]
Expresso // Free Antipsychotic Medication? Tomorrow Will Be Too Late
Francisco Sampaio, a researcher at CINTESIS - Center for Health Technology and Services Research, is the author of an opinion feature in the newspaper "Expresso" with the title "Free antipsychotic medication? Tomorrow will be too late", discussing the National Health Service dispensing antipsychotic medication for people with severe mental illness for free. Francisco Sampaio, who is also a professor at [...]
Children and Elderly Among the Most Serious Victims of Road Accidents
Children and the elderly are the victims of road accidents in Portugal that involve "greater complexities and challenges in diagnosis, treatment, reintegration, and forensic approach", says a study developed by researchers from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP) and CINTESIS - Center for Health Technology and Services Research. "The differences between age groups and the impact [...]
Expresso // Portuguese Longevity Researchers: “The idea that we will solve ageing in the short term is not reasonable”.
Lia Araújo, a researcher at CINTESIS - Center for Health Technology and Services Research/School of Education of Viseu, is one of the experts interviewed by the newspaper "Expresso" on the subject of longevity. "What people value is not how long they live, but the quality of that time", says the researcher, in statements to the weekly newspaper. Read more.
CINTESIS/NOVA Medical School Researchers Recruit Volunteers for Study on Water and Intestinal Microbiota
A team from CINTESIS - Center for Health Technology and Services Research and the NOVA Medical School is recruiting volunteers aged 18 to 70, living in Lisbon, to participate in a clinical trial. The condition is that they suffer from constipation. This study is led by Conceição Calhau, a specialist in Nutrition and Metabolism at CINTESIS and sub-director of NOVA [...]
Marisa Lousada: Speech Therapist Investigates Better Approaches for Children with Language Disorders
Marisa Lousada has been a researcher at CINTESIS - Centre for Health Technology and Services Research for almost a decade. She is also a speech therapist, Assistant Professor at the School of Health of the University of Aveiro (ESSUA), Director of the Master's Degree in Speech Therapy of the ESSUA, and vice-president of the Portuguese Society of Speech Therapy (SPTF). [...]