- The concept of pharmaceutical care was not really defined until three years ago. That's when it listed what is a health benefit provided by pharmacists. This is a breakthrough, because we didn't have such powers before. Computerization will take off a huge part of our responsibilities. So we...
Today is European Brain Day. It's an opportunity to talk about the challenges of caring for patients with neurodegenerative diseases, especially Alzheimer's disease. In 2019, it ranked 7th among the leading causes of death according to WHO data, along with other forms of dementia. It is the...
We have two groups of women in the health care system. The first is the patients, and the second is the ladies who work in this system. Both groups need support. The female patients for diseases common to their gender. Women who are employed in the system, on the other hand, need support to help...
- About prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation, as well as awareness and how to build knowledge that our health depends largely on us and our decisions. This is what we are going to talk about," said Editor Iwona Schymalla, president of the Zyjmy Zdrowo Foundation, opening the Third...
Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna has appointed Agnieszka Neumann-Podczaska, PhD, professor at UMP, as director of the National Institute of Geriatrics, Rheumatology and Rehabilitation.
Elementary and secondary school students have begun fitness tests as part of the "Sports Talents" project. Regular monitoring of children's and adolescents' physical fitness has been included in the core curriculum of schools. The initiative is viewed positively by health experts.
Surgical treatment of advanced forms of endometriosis should be reimbursed, is the conclusion after a meeting between Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna and representatives of patient associations and doctors from centers specializing in surgical treatment of endometriosis. The problem may affect...
The Supreme Medical Council has given a positive opinion of the draft regulation of the Minister of Health on the framework program of the course in family medicine. However, it has some comments.
- It is not our goal to liquidate the newly established medical faculties. We will control what happens at these faculties and final decisions will be made after the results of the inspection," Minister of Science and Higher Education Dariusz Wieczorek said in Plock. However, if the discrepancy...
An interview with Prof. Jack Grzybowski, head of the Cardiomyopathy Unit at the National Institute of Cardiology.
An interview with Dr. Ewa Glab-Jabłońska of the Department of Screening and Metabolic Diagnostics at the Mother and Child Institute.
An interview with Professor Krzysztof Giannopoulos of the Department of Experimental Hematooncology at the Medical University of Lublin.
Lack of telephone contact with a medical facility, inability to make a same-day appointment or refusal to sign up with a doctor. - These are the most common complaints we receive," informs Agnieszka Białas-Sitarska, spokesperson for the Świętokrzyskie Branch of the NFZ in Kielce.
Interview with Zbigniew Pawlowski, president of the Association of Families of Patients with Amyloidosis.
- You have turned the parliamentary freezer into a smiling freezer. Apparently, you don't have any projects tucked away in your drawers, and that's exactly what you're doing. For the men ruling this country, there is never a good time for women," MP Anna Maria Zhukowska of the Left Club said to...
A conversation with Prof. Maciej Krzakowski, national consultant in clinical oncology.
Up to 9 million people in Poland may be affected by obesity, the Supreme Audit Office estimates. Between 2020 and 2022, almost 800,000 patients were treated in POZ and AOS for this reason in our country, who received a total of 2.2 million services. In three years, the number of patients...
An interview with Dorota Korycinska, CEO of the National Federation of Oncology.
The Health Ministry is working to implement a directive that will ban the use of characterizing flavors in novel heated products. It is also preparing a ban on the sale of disposable electronic cigarettes.
"The effectiveness of long-term antibiotic therapy has not been confirmed (...), and may lead to significant side effects and result in antibiotic resistance selection in the entire Polish population. The medical literature precisely describes cases of complications after long-term antibiotic...
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