Margarida Azevedo, MSc, —

Margarida graduated with a BS in Health Sciences from the University of Lisbon and a MSc in Biotechnology from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST-UL). She worked as a molecular biologist research associate at a Cambridge UK-based biotech company that discovers and develops therapeutic, fully human monoclonal antibodies.

Articles by Margarida Azevedo

March 1, 2016 by Margarida Azevedo, MSc

Cerebral Palsy, Other Child Development Delays Are Focus of New Interactive Tool for Early Detection

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy have banded together to develop a new interactive tool that aims to help parents detect at an earlier stage any possible physical development delays in their children. Called “Physical…

February 26, 2016 by Margarida Azevedo, MSc

Study Shows Children with Cerebral Palsy Can Use Free Aspire Safely, Effectively to Manage Bronchial Secretions

In a new study, researchers tested the efficacy and safety of Free Aspire for the management of bronchial secretions in children with cerebral palsy (CP), and found the device is indeed effective and safe in reducing the impact of days in antibiotic therapy and in the hospital, of exacerbations…