Discussion on parliamentary bills:- on safe termination of pregnancy (print No. 177),- on amendments to the Act on family planning, protection of the human fetus and conditions of permissibility of termination of pregnancy (print No. 223),- on informed parenthood
- Stool is not waste, it is a great resource, says Dr. Pawel Grzesiowski, who was the first person in Poland to perform intestinal bacteria transplantation. The Chief Sanitary Inspector was a guest of Bożena Stasiak on the program "Wyszło na Jaw".
The in vitro program, the availability of the morning-after pill in Poland's 1,200 pharmacies as part of a pharmaceutical service, disciplining hospitals not to deny women the right to legal abortion - these areas, among others, Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna pointed to as her successes after...
"Consideration of information from the Minister of Health on the sale of opioids in Poland and plans to prevent illegal access to narcotics of this kind."
On the occasion of Father's Day, the third edition of the Guy at 100 PRO campaign was launched, reminding people of the importance of the role of dads in children's lives, but also how fatherhood serves men themselves. It also aims to educate parents about the new rights of fathers, which came...
- Semen parameters are not something you can throw into an Internet browser asking for interpretation. Many men come to me completely healthy, but horrified by the results they have generated and interpreted for themselves. More often than not, I have good news for them," says Dr. Luke Kupis, a...
Prostate cancer - preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic challenges.
- We must not take away a sick person's hope, because sometimes it's the only thing they have," the well-known surgeon, Prof. Krzysztof Bielecki, says in the program Wyszło na Dzisiaj, referring to the issue of collections conducted to finance the treatment of seriously ill people, especially...
European pharmacists are calling for new measures to address drug supply problems. In a document endorsed by the European Pharmaceutical Assembly (PGEU) in Amsterdam, the negative impact of drug shortages on patients' health and trust in the healthcare system was highlighted. It pointed out that...
- Doctors cannot be punished for fighting a human disease at an early stage of development in accordance with the art of medicine and, above all, medical indications, says the president of the Supreme Medical Council, Lukasz Jankowski, referring to the case of penalties imposed by the National...
Anna Jarosz from the editorial department of medexpress.pl was awarded in this year's edition of the Kryształowe Pióra competition for journalists for her material entitled "Hypercholesterolemia - let's talk about it more often". Nine journalists received the first prize and a statuette, and the...
The All-Poland Oncology Federation held a meeting with Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna in April this year regarding, among other things, reimbursement of molecular tests for cancer diagnosis. Health Ministry staff assure that the topic will be implemented by the end of 2024.
W.A.I.T. Indicator: Poland once again rises in the ranking of European countries, but has the longest reimbursement waiting times and more and more drugs are available only to limited groups of patients. The European Union needs to even out the differences and reduce patient waiting times for...
- We note with regret that in the public discussion there is a shallowing narrative: "there are queues to doctors, so we are short of doctors." Meanwhile, as the analysis of the NIL's Health System Transformation and Development Strategy Team shows, the queues are the result of the inefficiency...
The image of the well-known surgeon, Professor Krzysztof Bielecki, has been used by fraudsters to, among other things, advertise a pseudo-drug with alleged anti-atherosclerotic effects. Materials using deep fake technology have also been used to promote other preparations with questionable...
What pharmacists need to know about biologic drugs, how to "advertise" pharmaceutical products, when off-label use of a drug is legitimate and how consumers visiting pharmacies can be classified - these were just a few of the issues discussed at the Medicine, Pharmacy and Business - Synergy of...
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.
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