- We will encourage school principals to make it possible to vaccinate children from the age of 9 to 13 at school," Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna announced during the Poland of the Future Campus.
It is possible that pregnant women will be able to receive the pertussis vaccine free of charge from the beginning of the new year, Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna announced in an interview with Radio TOK FM.
- COVID-19 runs are somewhat worse now. We are encountering severe pneumonia. It can't be compared to when we were fighting the Delta variant, but they are no longer just colds like last year," Deputy Health Minister Wojciech Konieczny said on Polish Radio Program 1.
The Ministry of Health has amended the regulation governing prescription fulfillment. As a result, the pharmacist's liability for errors in the fulfillment of annual prescriptions resulting from incorrect calculations of the machine is abolished. - This is a fair solution," comments Marek Tomków,...
When we talk about side effects, we mean any adverse and undesirable effect of a drug that occurs in a patient during or shortly after treatment. Often this term is confused with a side effect, but they are not entirely the same. How to recognize an adverse reaction and what to do next?
Blood is urgently needed. We are asking blood donors to come forward," the regional blood donation and blood-treatment centers are appealing. Some of them lack almost all blood groups. This is the case, for example, in Cracow and Radom.
"In 2023, 659 people in Poland contracted tick-borne encephalitis. 35-58 percent of patients with central nervous system involvement develop permanent neurological complications," the Health Ministry warns. In addition to the CSE, the result of a tick bite can be Lyme disease. What can be done to...
The Hospital Infection Control Team of the Memorial Hospital of the Baptism of Poland in Gniezno issued an announcement yesterday on the restriction of Covid-19, influenza and RSV infections. Outsiders and staff are to walk around wearing masks. Visits, meanwhile, will be significantly restricted.
Maciej Dabrowski, M.D., took over as deputy director for clinical affairs at the National Institute of Cardiology last Wednesday. He succeeded Prof. Maciej Sterlinski, MD, who is returning to work with patients at the NIKard Center for Heart Rhythm Disorders.
- Patients with hemato-oncology diseases deserve to be treated with the latest methods, the parlementarians who spoke in a poll conducted by Medexpress in the parliamentary corridors agree. Among other things, we asked them about the importance of effective use of financial inputs in this field...
When we go on vacation, our first instinct is rarely to think about what regulations apply to taking medicines across the border. This is a big mistake, especially if we are taking any medications on a permanent basis. It turns out that if we don't follow the formalities, we can be unpleasantly...
Mixing alcohol with energy drinks can have lamentable consequences, the Health Ministry warns, and with it doctors. Such a combination is most often seen in young people, especially during the holiday season. Ingestion of such a mixture often ends up in the ED. There may even be life-threatening...
Police officers in Zlotorya were approached by a man complaining of a rash. This alone must have greatly puzzled the officers, but their astonishment became even greater when it turned out that he was referring to the uniformed officers to check the quality of methamphetamine, after taking which...
The vacations are a period when statistics on the reporting of children and adolescents to psychiatrists and psychologists generally drop. However, this does not mean that one can completely lose vigilance during this period. - Mental disorders can manifest themselves in any situation, at any...
The University Clinical Center in Gdansk, the Regional Hospital in Kielce and the University Hospital in Krakow are the three facilities with the highest number of organ donations in 2023, according to the Poltransplant Information Bulletin. The largest increase in donation activity is recorded...
Up to 12 drownings occurred in Poland during the recent long weekend (August 15-18), according to police data. In August alone, 33 people have already drowned, and a total of 168 since the beginning of June. On what most often leads to misfortune and how to safely rescue a drowning person, we...
More than 1,100 confirmed COVID-19 infections were recorded in Poland last Saturday. A week earlier the number was more than 700, and on August 2 it was more than 460. Doctors have no doubt that we are dealing with a summer wave of COVID-19 - This is not surprising. Already in June we predicted...
- Finding out that a child has cancer is the worst situation in a person's life that can happen to him. There is no single formula for how to convey such information. I've been working for more than 20 years, and I always thought it was better to tell the truth. Now I think it's not. Not everyone...
The case of two female fist fighters, Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan and Imane Khelif of Algeria, competing in the women's events at the Paris Olympics, has heated up the discussion about their gender. There have been harsh comments, memes and made-up facts of life. Meanwhile, the issue of physical gender...
"This is long-awaited news" is what experts interviewed by Medexpress say about the government's adoption of the Rare Disease Plan yesterday. We collected comments from clinicians and representatives of the patient side.
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