- 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.
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...
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