By interacting with sight, touch, hearing and smell, it is possible to alleviate the negative effects of anti-cancer treatment, as well as to counteract depressive disorders and reduce anxiety. In the Warsaw Institute "Pomnik - Centrum Zdrowia Dziecka", thanks to the cooperation of the Foundation...
A chemical compound has been developed at Jagiellonian University that could become an important part of the treatment of skin hyperpigmentation. It has been shown to effectively inhibit the natural process of melanin production by skin cells. Researchers say that by applying the discovered...
Although Polish patients can take advantage of free and virtually queue-free preventive examinations, there are few takers, family doctors say. Meanwhile, waiting rooms for primary care offices are crowded. Unfortunately, more and more often these doctors diagnose not simple infections, but...
Medexpress: For years, you have been very dedicated to treating patients with rare diseases. You see how patients' needs are changing with the development of medicine. What does this look like for those affected by hypophosphatasia? How is the picture of their treatment changing?Prof. Zbigniew...
Programs for three qualification courses for pharmacists approved by the Minister of Health have been published on the website of the Center for Medical Postgraduate Education. They concern: immunization and qualifying examination for COVID-19 and influenza vaccination, but also the performance...
The Supreme Audit Office, following an audit of district sanitary-epidemiological stations in Lubelskie Voivodeship, gave a positive assessment of the implementation of the financial plan for budget revenues and expenditures in 2021-2022 only in the facility in Kraśnik. In the other five audited...
The wasteful spending of PLN 2.7 million for the adaptation of the Exhibition and Convention Center in Opole to a Temporary Hospital for COVID-19 patients, self-construction, the unjustified spending of PLN 530,000 for an isolation room in a hotel to which not a single patient was referred, a...
The celebration of the 40th anniversary of parenteral nutrition in Poland will be held on October 5 at the SPSK of Prof. W. Orlowski CMKP in Warsaw. The celebration will focus on achievements in the field of nutrition therapy and the merits of improving the situation of Polish patients. Among the...
The academic year is about to begin. Young people and their parents, in the flurry of things, fail to remember a very important issue: health insurance. Its absence comes to light at the time of illness, when the clinic or hospital bills for treatment. The National Health Service reminds what...
The Chief Sanitary Inspectorate has issued a warning, regarding the detection of salmonella bacteria of a batch of beef minced meat. Consumption of the product carries a risk of food poisoning.
The Ministry of Health is inviting applications for retrofitting treatment facilities with robotic devices for rehabilitation. This is another step towards the development of innovative solutions in the area of healthcare delivery.
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...
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