A regional hospital in Třinec is using an unusual, yet cheap and effective method to treat persistent, recurrent diarrhea caused by the Clostridium difficile bacterium. It involves "transferring" the stool of a healthy person into the patient's intestine.
Prof. Jan Styczynski, national consultant in pediatric oncology and hematology:Patients with neurofibromatosis require systematic care.Pediatric oncology and hematology are mainly rare diseases.Each patient may be the one, special one, and we want to provide them with treatment to the highest...
While the very name "rare diseases" may suggest that they are unique health problems and affecting only a small fraction of the population, statistics leave no illusions - despite their being titled "rare" - the total number of sufferers is huge. Rare diseases affect millions, and by the fact...
- We have a very good standard of treatment for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), but it treats at most 30 percent of the population suffering from the exudative form. The rest of the patients simply go blind," says Malgorzata Pacholec, president of the Retina AMD Association of Poland,...
On March 30, the Senate rejected the Health Care Quality and Patient Safety Act. 50 senators supported the position, 44 opposed and 1 abstained.
The main goal of the new legislation is to ensure that every patient, regardless of where they live, has equal access to coordinated and comprehensive oncology care.
In April, we celebrate World Health Day. This is a time when we approach the subject a little more carefully. As a rule, we focus on prevention or unpleasant symptoms, but sometimes we also struggle with those that are not among the most bothersome, but which we should definitely not ignore.
In the Department of General and Transplant Surgery at the Infant Jesus Clinical Hospital UCK WUM, on March 23, 2023, a team led by Professor Wojciech Lisik performed the first documented laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in a liver transplant patient in Poland.
The Ministry of Health has published the "Announcement of the Minister of Health on the basic monthly salary of doctors in training and dentists in training." By how much will the salary increase and from when?
The draft was submitted by the Minister of Health.
Opublikowane dzisiaj na stronach Rządowego Centrum Legislacji rozporządzenie, zakłada przedłużenie stanu zagrożenia epidemicznego do 30 kwietnia br.
The health ministry reported the latest data for the period from March 23 to 29: We have 12,538 (including 3,060 reinfections) confirmed cases of coronavirus infection from the provinces: Mazovia (2253), Silesia (1041), Malopolska (939), lubelski (902), Greater Poland (901), Lower Silesia (827),...
The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health Amending the Regulation on the Distribution of the Amount of Funds in 2023 Representing the Increase in the Total Budget for Reimbursement has been submitted for consultation.
The provision preventing price competition in the drug market that was included in the draft amendment to the reimbursement law needs to be modified. It blocks the entry of lower-priced drugs into reimbursement and introduces legal unpredictability, which threatens to cause companies to abandon...
Registration for participation in the XXIX. Scientific Symposium of the National Institute of Cardiology. The formula of the event provides for panel discussions and expert speeches on new directions in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases - the discussions will be complemented...
The Trade Union of Psychiatric and Addiction Treatment Workers has announced a protest outside the Health Ministry building for May 12. We publish the protesters' demands on Medexpress.
April 3 next meeting of the Transparency Council.
Scientists from Poland and Canada have discovered a new gene whose mutations cause a high risk of breast cancer! The international team of researchers was led by Cezary Cybulski, a geneticist from the Department of Genetics and Pathomorphology at Pomeranian Medical University, and Mohammad Akbari...
Gośćmi Patient Empowerment Podcast są: Maria Libura, ekspertka Centrum Analiz Klubu Jagiellońskiego ds. zdrowia i Przemysław Marszałek, sekretarz MukoKoalicji, członek CF Europe i zarządu Fundacji MATIO.
Primary bone tumors account for about 6-7% of the incidence among young cancer patients, and their cure rate is estimated at about 65-75%[1]. Whether or not a child recovers, and how comfortable his or her life will be during and after treatment, depends largely on the stage at which the disease...
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