Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
Practicing alternative medicine in Portugal will require a professional licence and higher education. The Portuguese government approved a law concerning unconventional therapies and alternative medicines, stipulating these can only be practiced by …
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LISBON (Reuters) – Sergio Alves had been off heroin for a year – a tough year to stay clean in Portugal, as the debt-laden country weathered more painful austerity measures after an international bailout and sunk into its worst recession since the 1970s. As tax hikes gnawed into the grocery business he runs with his wife and the stress mounted, Alves relapsed. Now back in rehab, the 30-year-old is glad he can fall back on the free state-run centre for drug addicts, where he says few signs of austerity are visible yet. "The business was bad, my life became just the work-home routine. …
| The top countries for weight gain. Mediterannean diet not so healthy for tourists … top countries for weight gain. Photo: Courtesy of Fly Thomas Cook. With 350 Britons completing the survey, Cyprus, Turkey and Portugal led the charge when it came to … See all stories on this topic » |
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Building on the bilateral relations between the maritime authorities of Portugal and Spain, a combined exercise of maritime search and rescue will take place today in an area south of the Guadiana river mouth, coordinated by the Maritime …
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(Reuters) – After a wave of scandals including wrongful foreclosures on U.S. home mortgages, worker suicides at a major Apple Inc supplier in China and the $1.7 billion accounting fraud at Japan’s Olympus Corp, a New York think tank is calling out companies that take the high road. The Ethisphere Institute’s annual World’s Most Ethical companies list, released on Thursday, found that 145 companies in countries including United States, Great Britain, Japan, Portugal and India stood out as setting a high standard for their employees’ behavior. …
Reuters – A Portuguese city suspended its police chief for sending a Christmas email greeting to its entire municipal workforce which contained images of scantily clad women and seasonal wishes for a great sex life.