Biogen obtains marketing approval from the European Commission for the drug tofersen, the first therapeutic solution for the treatment of a rare, genetic form of ALS. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) with a mutation in the SOD1 gene is a devastating, fatal and extremely rare genetic form of...
The ,,Life with Cancer" Foundation is organizing a series of free psycho-oncology workshops organized as part of the "We Live" project. The project aims to support hematooncology patients and their loved ones. Subsidized by the DKMS Foundation, the workshops are free of charge.
Thanks to its presence in the European Union, patients from Poland - after fulfilling several conditions - can receive elective treatment abroad. Throughout the Community in 2022, a total of more than 24,000 documents were issued as a basis for planned treatment. In 2023 alone. The National...
- Every lowered curb and every accessible toilet is something amazing," says Izabela Sopalska-Rybak, president and founder of the Kulawa Warszawa Foundation, who talks about what barriers people with disabilities face, what has changed for the better, and what needs improvement.
A clinical training for trainers will be held in Warsaw on June 4-6: Strengthening the response capacity of the Polish health care system in cases of sexual and intimate partner violence. Approximately 45 people from all District Chambers of Nurses and Midwives from all provinces in Poland will...
- We take a heart, put it in a device, connect it to various tubes and start it up. This heart has its own circulation in the coronary vessels and, suspended in this box, starts to beat. This causes a sensation," says Dr. Zygmunt Kalicinski, a cardiac surgeon and clinical transplantologist from...
Up to half of patients with severe symptomatic mitral valve regurgitation are not referred for surgery because of the risks of the procedure. For them, an innovative tricuspid valve made from porcine pericardium may be a chance for treatment. - This is a chance of life for this group of patients,...
1 czerwca wystartuje program leczenia niepłodności metodą in vitro finansowany z budżetu państwa.
As of September 2025, a new subject - health education - will appear in schools, replacing upbringing for family life. What should be included in the core curriculum? We asked Dr. Wojciech Feleszko, a pediatrician, immunologist and pulmonologist, about this.
At the Mother and Child Institute in Warsaw, clinical research plays a key role in the search for new, more effective treatments for pediatric cancer. The story of Nataniel, a young man who had cancer for several years, is one of many examples of how innovative therapies can make a real...
Diagnosis of skin lesions, practical aspects of dermatology in a pediatrician's office, such as atopy, acne, photoprotection are the topics that will be discussed at the scientific symposium of the Polish Pediatric Society organized jointly with with the brand La Rosche-Posay. The event will take...
An interview with Anna Ben Drissi, managing director of the Polish Society of Allergology.
Ways to celebrate Mother's Day are plentiful. Every year, many people wonder how to appreciate this special woman in their lives on this day. The Federation of Amazon Associations argues that the best gift for a mother is to take care of her health. That's why it is organizing for the second time...
- Family medicine is a demanding specialty. We are doctors for everything. Someone will maliciously say that for nothing, but this is not the case, this should never be said. We are not "frontline" doctors, but those who have to go deeply into the somatic and psychosomatic sphere of the patient,...
Who is mainly affected by osteoporosis? What test is performed to detect it and how often should one undergo it? These questions, among others, were answered by MPs in a poll we conducted in the parliamentary corridors.
- We are so psychologically constructed that we attribute the right to dream to people who are healthy. We forget that people at the end of life also dream," says Mariola Kosowicz, MD, clinical psychologist and psychooncologist at the Psychooncology Outpatient Clinic at the Oncology Center in...
- Some men diagnosed with infertility fear that not only will their health be judged negatively, but that their masculinity will be called into question. This is misguided and completely unnecessary," says Dr. Luke Kupis, a urologist, andrologist, microsurgeon and male infertility specialist.
During the May meeting of the District Medical Council in Warsaw, new members of the Presidium of the ORL were elected. We already know the composition of the council.
The premise of the 40 PLUS Program was very simple. It was supposed to rebuild the health of Poles after the pandemic. At that time, many patients did not regularly perform preventive examinations, and some avoided them altogether. The consequences of such behavior are tragic; to this day,...
Nurses ranked outside the top three professions with the highest public trust, according to a ranking published by SW Research. Doctors took over the third place on the podium from them. In second place, unchanged from 2021, remain paramedics. Advancement by one place in the top ten, however, was...
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