On November 5, 1985, Professor Zbigniew Religa performed Poland's first successful heart transplant. The operation took place at the then Provincial Cardiology Center) in Zabrze, today it is the Silesian Center for Heart Diseases.
Nails, needles, razor blades - candies with such additives were distributed to children playing on Halloween across Poland by as yet unidentified perpetrators. Doctors are outraged and are speaking out about the dangers of ingesting candy with such additives.
- Disposable e-cigarettes, which are mainly manufactured in China, have hit the market in the millions, if not tens or hundreds of millions. They have been imported into the European Union market, including Poland. These are cigarettes that use the worst, cheapest components, including lithium...
Every year, November 1 is a public holiday. This year, the All Saints' Day holiday falls on a Friday. And that means primary health care clinics will be closed. Many people travel away from where they live. Where to seek medical help when we get sick or feel worse during the holiday?
- We are seeing an increased influx of patients, as those from the Zywiec district are also reaching us. Our ED, Emergency Room and wards are overcrowded. Places are beginning to be in short supply, especially for internal medicine and surgical patients, according to Dr. Klaudiusz Komor, vice-...
Such births are rare. On Monday, October 28, at the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at USK2 PUM in Szczecin, a delivery of a baby boy, who came into the world in an amniotic sac, was taken by cesarean section.
- I will certainly not back down and this regulation will go into effect. We are used to after the Law and Justice governments, that when there is a bill or regulation, nothing can be changed, because the authority is the smartest. We do consultations for this purpose, so that comments can flow...
- We have about 160,000 orders. We are delivering 100 doses each to individual points. We will see what the so-called vaccination rate will be this time, that is, how many people will want to be vaccinated. On Friday morning, a list of vaccination points will be available online, and it will be...
- We strongly oppose the theses spread by the Polish Association of Independent Physicians and Scientists undermining the effectiveness and safety of HPV vaccination," stresses Magda Wisniewka, MD, chairwoman of the Board of Experts of the Supreme Medical Chamber, and adds that a doctor's...
14 patients and 10 caregivers were transferred earlier this week from Kamal Adwan in the northern Gaza Strip to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City in a high-risk mission co-led by the World Health Organization. Despite the initial agreement, the supply of essential medical supplies, blood and fuel -...
„Zwolnienia są dla respondentów tak samo ważne jak recepty i skierowania”, ustaliło Centrum e-Zdrowia w badaniu towarzyszącym testowaniu funkcji e-zwolnienia lekarskiego w aplikacji mojeIKP. Testy były prowadzone na wąskiej grupie respondentów.
Today is World Obesity Day. The Ministry of Health, together with the National Health Fund, remind us that this is an ideal opportunity to start taking care of a healthy lifestyle.
Children suffering from cancer have weakened immune systems. This is due to both the nature of the disease itself, which causes immune system dysfunction, and the intensive treatment they must undergo. As a result, they are also particularly vulnerable to infection, which is why it is so...
- The new draft regulation of the Ministry of Health, which has been submitted for publication, contains provisions that threaten to paralyze, the president of the Supreme Medical Council, Lukasz Jankowski, said at a press briefing on Wednesday. - Our goal is to stop this regulation at the...
- This is 35 years of work, written down in one book," he says of his publication titled. "Intestinal Revolution. Reclaim your health, live long and eat what you like," Dr. Magdalena Cubala-Kucharska, a family medicine doctor known for her activity on social media. - I see a great demand for...
Until the end of this year, you can take advantage of the Prevention 40+ program, the Health Ministry reminds. More than 4 million people have already participated in the program. 3.5 million have taken advantage of the free examination packages, and 600,000 have filled out a questionnaire and...
- There are changes in the ecosystem all the time, and we can never say that the situation is fully controlled. Natural disasters, such as a hurricane or flood, cause a sudden increase in the epidemiological threat. In the case of Poland, this issue has been taken very seriously in my opinion....
- Unfortunately, for several years we have had a discrepancy in how many people are vaccinated and how many should be vaccinated. However, it is worth noting that the vaccination status of the population aged 0-19, the one that should be vaccinated according to the calendar, is at a satisfactory...
- For the past few years, we have fortunately had a movement to involve not only doctors in vaccination, but also the personnel who work with them: nurses, midwives and, more recently, pharmacists. This is an excellent movement in the context of disenchanting vaccinations," he said in an...
- PCPs have been given tools and diagnostic capabilities at their facilities. It's a much broader package of tests, including those that were previously only available in outpatient specialty care," Magdalena Kolodziej, president of the We Patients Foundation, says in an interview with Medexpress...
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