- Covid-19 causes a break in the treatment of the underlying disease in cancer patients. Such an infection may persist for a long time. Pre-exposure prophylaxis could help reduce the risk of Covid-19 disease, but also allow the treatment to be continued - said Prof. dr hab. n. med. Iwona Hus,...
- During the pandemic, confidence in the health care system has decreased, but in the context of dealing with the global phenomenon that has happened to us, the general trust in states has also decreased. The factor that contributed to the decline in confidence was, inter alia, the issue of...
The World Health Organization data shows that more than 10 percent. people around the world struggle with mental health problems. People suffering from depression constitute the largest group. Patients struggle, inter alia, with difficulties in functioning in society. In extreme cases, this...
The Minister of Health, Adam Niedzielski, donated a T-shirt, in which he was vaccinated with the second maintenance dose against Covid-19. The income from the auction is to support the Lublin hospice.
The Psychiatry Center for Children and Adults was opened today at the University Teaching Hospital in Białystok. - After more than a decade of the white spot in Podlasie, today we are filling the void in child psychiatry. Children from Podlasie will no longer have to be treated in neighboring...
Prostate biopsy, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging can be performed on an outpatient basis under intravenous anesthesia. The Ministry of Health wants such changes. Until now, this form of anesthesia could only be used during hospitalization.
- We are approaching the point where we can say that thanks to vaccinations and drugs, which are slowly appearing, we control the situation and the relatively large number of infections does not pose a significant burden, for example, to hospitals - said the Minister of Health in an interview...
The Department of Mechanical Support and Heart Transplantation has been opened at the National Institute of Cardiology. It will treat patients with severe forms of heart failure. Annually, there may be up to two hundred of them. The launch of the new branch is the last stage of a several-year...
- We are approaching the point where we can say that thanks to vaccinations and drugs that are slowly appearing, we are controlling the situation and the relatively large number of infections do not pose a significant burden, for example, to hospitals - said health minister Adam Niedzielski in an...
- Each infection is a deterioration of the child's general health, and this can affect the overall prognosis - said Maria Miszczak-Knecht, MD, a national consultant in the field of pediatric cardiology, at the Coalition for Premature Infant Foundation's conference on protecting children against...
A large proportion of nurses have received increases lower than their qualifications, and the criteria for allocating funds for the implementation of the act on minimum wages for hospitals remain a mystery - according to the discussion that took place on Tuesday at the Senate Health Committee....
Hacker attacks on healthcare facilities are on the rise, experts in the field of cybersecurity alarm. Criminals demand ransom and threaten to make intercepted data about patients public. This, in turn, could trigger an avalanche of damages.
The Silesian Center for Heart Diseases in Zabrze (SCCS) is already accepting patients in the newly opened wing of the hospital. The building houses, among others departments of cardiology, diseases of affluence and mechanical circulatory support. The expansion of the hospital was co-financed by...
Over PLN 3.1 billion will go to 14 hospitals treating children. Thanks to the money allocated to investments, the comfort of care for young patients is to be increased. The first competition under the Medical Fund has been adjudicated.
Svante Pääbo, a Swedish biologist specializing in evolutionary genetics, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The award jury appreciated his discoveries regarding genomes. - His research is an answer to the question of where we are from and how long different types of homoites lived...
The conditions of hospitalization of patients of the district hospital in Starachowice (Świętokrzyskie) will improve. The clinic has started the renovation of the General Surgical Department.
- We want to provide patients suffering from multiple sclerosis the necessary knowledge and facilitate their meetings with other patients - says Monika Łada, president of the SclerosisRozsiane Foundation.Info, in an interview with Medexpress, and announces conferences for patients. There are also...
Vaccination of children 5-11 years of age with a booster dose of Covid-19 vaccine begins. During the night, the Ministry of Health issued 262 thousand. referrals. Primary immunization of children 5-11 years old against Covid-19 began on December 16 last year. Young patients receive Pfizer in a...
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