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...
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 hypertension.
The All-Poland Physicians Trade Union and the OZZL Residents' Agreement have announced a protest of doctors called "Fight the prescribers, not the doctors!", which will take place on 13.07 at 13:00 at 15 Miodowa Street in Warsaw.
Since the beginning of July, treatment of drug-resistant depression with esketamine has been available in Poland under a drug program. This is the first such program in Polish psychiatry. So far, there have been no breakthroughs in the treatment of the disease, from which 1.5 million Poles...
We should expand preventive measures and increase the detection of chronic kidney disease throughout society, argues Prof. Beata Naumnik, head of the 1st Clinic of Nephrology and Transplantation with Dialysis Center, Medical University of Bialystok.
In this episode of the Cardio Know-How podcast, Prof. Jaroslaw Drozdz of the Central Clinical Hospital of the Medical University of Lodz launches the Summer School of Clinical Cardiology.
The directors of the city's hospitals with gynecological departments in Warsaw have signed a joint statement on access to all medical services, including abortions, in cases that comply with current law. - In any of our hospitals, every woman can always count on help in a health or life-...
Should obese people have the same "moral right" to Ozempic as diabetics? Is such weight loss safe? And what about the yo-yo effect? When can taking this drug lead to divorce and its prescription interest inspectors from the National Health Service? The answers are provided by the guest of the...
There is a chance that chronically ill patients who have to report to the hospital for biologic drug administration will be able to receive therapy from a specialist at an outpatient clinic. This will also increase the availability of such treatment, as outpatient clinics are able to accept more...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has changed the registration status of the drug lecanemab-irmb from accelerated approval to traditional approval. This was made possible by positive results from the Phase III 301 randomized controlled clinical trial (CLARITY AD).
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