It's been a year since the expanded SMA drug program went into effect. The experience gained during the past year confirms that the current program is one of the leading in Europe. One of its components is neonatal screening. A similar solution, which in practice would boil down to a so-called...
- We managed to obtain several new reimbursements, including for phlogazines, liberalize the program for the treatment of lipid disorders, but also launch the pilot of the National Cardiac Network, expanded this year to include six more regions - according to Prof. Przemysław Mitkowski, president...
- We were the forerunners of salary increases for other groups of medical and non-medical professions, and we have become, in a way, victims and hostages of these increases," said Mariola Lodzinska, president of the Supreme Chamber of Nurses and Midwives, in an interview with Medexpress during...
The Interdisciplinary Patient Safety Forum, organized by the Polish Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care (PTAiIT) and the Safe Patient Foundation, will be held in Krakow for the second time this weekend (September 15-17). The event will be a continuation of the "Decade of Patient Safety"...
- Rare diseases are specific and, as a result, the solutions that are used to care for patients also need to be adapted to these specifics," Stanislaw Maćkowiak, president of the Federation of Polish Patients, told Medexpress during the Economic Forum in Karpacz.
- Patients very often circulate from doctor to doctor, from clinic to clinic, from specialist to specialist. On average, a rare disease is not diagnosed until five years after the first symptoms appear," said Prof. Mieczyslaw Walczak, head of the Department of Pediatrics, Endocrinology,...
"Thank you for the daily effort you make to save the most precious values - the life and health of Poles," wrote Health Minister Katarzyna Sójka in a post on social media. Today (8.09.) is the first time the Day of the Paramedic is celebrated. September 8 also marks World Physiotherapy Day.
- We dream that physiotherapists should be happy, and that our decision-makers should know about the role of physiotherapy in the system and recognize how important it is," said National Chamber of Physiotherapists president Tomasz Dybek at the conference accompanying World Physiotherapy Day to...
- A medical professional must have the ability to filter out valuable knowledge that arises in the course of scientific research conducted in accordance with all the rules from what is pseudo knowledge," said the rector of the Medical University of Gdansk, Prof. Marcin Gruchała, chairman of the...
- Stem cells injected topically are not a kind of glue, meant to close fistulas, but to promote natural healing. It is a very effective method. Patients who are young, who are aware of their disease, who have learned to function with it, stem cells can bring them back to full activity," Prof....
Prof. Mansur Rahnama has again become chairman of the Council for Academic Degrees in the discipline of medical sciences at the Medical University of Lublin. He will hold the post until 2027.
Dr. Marek Tombarkiewicz, director of the National Institute of Geriatrics, Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, talked about the law on special geriatric care signed by Polish President Andrzej Duda a few days ago during the Economic Forum in Karpacz.
We spoke with Deputy Health Minister Maciej Miłkowski during the Economic Forum in Karpacz about the changes introduced in the treatment of rare diseases by the September list of reimbursed drugs, the work related to the November list, and the needs of patients with neurofibromatosis.
Pharmacists want active inclusion in the health care system. To what extent and on what terms, says the president of the Supreme Pharmaceutical Council Elżbieta Piotrowska-Rutkowska.
Secretary of State at the Ministry of Health Waldemar Kraska talks about the summary of the ending term and challenges in health care.
- In the implementation of an effective public health policy, it is extremely important that all central institutions, local governments and private entities act in an integrated manner," said Deputy Health Minister Waldemar Kraska during the panel "Integrated cooperation - who benefits from it"...
Interview with Przemyslaw Marszalek, secretary of the MukoKoalition, conducted during the 1st Children and Adolescent Health Congress.
An interview with Professor Anna Kostera-Pruszczyk, head of the Department of Neurology at Warsaw Medical University's UCK WUM Central Teaching Hospital, ERN EURO NMD.
Interview with Professor Teresa Jackowska, president of the Polish Pediatric Society, conducted during the Congress on Child and Adolescent Health
Interview with Prof. Gertruda Uścińska, president of the Social Insurance Institution, conducted during the Children and Youth Health Congress.
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