In the Department of Electrocardiology of the First Chair and Department of Cardiology of the UCK WUM, a procedure to implant a single-chamber cardiac pacing system was performed last Thursday (21.09.). This is a new generation of this type of device and an opportunity for patients in whom the...
NHF summarizes patient treatment costs in 2022. Who benefits most from treatment?
In connection with the entry into force of legislation expanding the free drug program and the new list of reimbursed drugs, which is effective from September 1, 2023, the Fund informs about the possibility of issuing reimbursed prescriptions with the symbol:S - to persons over 65 years of ageDZ...
New features have been added to the myIKP app: a water drinking counter and an up-to-date list of free medicines for children under 18 and people over 65. The myIKP app is a tool that makes it easier for patients to function in the health care system and engages them in taking care of their health.
If we don't globally change our policy of antibiotic use in humans and animals, more people will die from bacterial infections in 2050 than from cancer today. Dr. Monika Wanke-Rytt, a pediatrician at Warsaw Medical University, explains what the advantage of bacteria over humans is and why.
A long-term study from actual clinical practice extending to a 30-month follow-up of a group of 120 adults and older children with spinal muscular atrophy, with varying disease severity and type of SMA, has shown that patients treated with nusinersen therapy not only experience stabilization of...
With Professor Jolanta Sykut-Ciegielska, we talk about Hypophosphatasia and LAL-D, or Lysosomal Acid Lipase Deficiency. Despite their rarity, these diseases are extremely important for medical and public awareness, as there are still many mysteries surrounding their diagnosis and treatment.
In this episode of the Cardio Know-How podcast, Professor Jaroslaw Drozdz of the Central Clinical Hospital of the Medical University of Lodz continues the Summer School of Clinical Cardiology and discusses the topic of infective endocarditis.
Why is it cheaper to amputate a leg than treat it, and why is obesity more expensive than diabetes? How to reduce the waiting time to see a specialist by several hundred days, and how much does it cost? And finally: what do doctors feed their vocation? These questions, among others, were answered...
This weekend, July 29-30, the Health Picnic will be held - a major preventive event in the open air, reports the Świętokrzyskie voivodeship branch of the National Health Fund. Health towns with plenty of examinations, measurements, consultations will stand on the Kielce Market Square (Saturday,...
The Patient Ombudsman, Bartlomiej Chmielowiec, and the Center for Monitoring Quality in Health Care, represented by Director Agnieszka Pietraszewska-Maketa, have entered into an agreement on cooperation aimed at improving the safety and quality of the health care system in Poland.
The Senate Health Committee rejected in its entirety at Monday's meeting a major amendment to the reimbursement law. There were claims of unconstitutionality.
Observance of patient rights is a prerequisite for realizing the humanistic mission of health systems. In the face of contemporary challenges resulting from epidemiological, technological, institutional and social changes, it is necessary to create conditions for a more effective functioning of...
- Diagnosis in rare diseases is the basis in order to support patients systemically and offer them dedicated treatment," emphasized Barbara Dziuk, chairwoman of the Parliamentary Group on Rare Diseases, during the Medical Rationale of State, held on July 13. The discussion focused on the...
Information from the President of URPL regarding the European Medicines Agency's PRAC Committee's review of data on the risk of suicidal thoughts during therapy with GLP-1 receptor agonists.
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that bird flu infection has been detected in more than twenty-five cats in Poland, but there is no information on human cases. The agency reports that such risks are low.
Thyroid nodules are a very common thyroid pathology, with an estimated risk of occurrence in the general population of so roughly 5% to 10%, with a much higher incidence in women, increasing in frequency with age, and in areas of greater iodine deficiency. Thanks to advances in technology and the...
In recent years, we have made tremendous progress in the reimbursement of innovative therapies for oncological diseases. But has the reimbursement express really been followed by availability? And what role does modern, precise diagnostics play in all this? These are just some of the questions...
AOTMiT has published the work plan of the Transparency Council from August 1 to 31.
The Presidium of the Supreme Medical Council has raised a number of objections to the draft amendment to the Reimbursement Act. One of the most important demands of the medical self-government is the removal of the obligation of doctors to mark the level of payment for a drug when issuing a...
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