The Ombudsman draws attention to the need to build drug security, including strengthening drug production in the country and publishing a list of critical medicines. Marcin Wiącek has addressed Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna and Development and Technology Minister Krzysztof Hetman on the issue.
April 22 next meeting of the Transparency Council.
On Monday, April 15, the next meeting of the Transparency Council.
Currently, there is no effective therapy that offers a chance to cure Parkinson's disease. Despite an in-depth understanding of its pathomechanisms, its exact cause is unknown. Existing treatments make patients more comfortable, but do not prevent systematic neurodegradation of the brain.
A Notice of the Minister of Health dated April 8, 2024 on the list of medicinal products, foodstuffs for special nutritional purposes and medical devices at risk of unavailability on the territory of the Republic of Poland has been published in the Official Journal of the Ministry of Health.The...
Prof. Lukasz Krzych, head of the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Prof. K. Gibinski University Clinical Center of the Silesian Medical University in Katowice, tells us about modern anesthesiology.
Prof. Janusz Andres, head of the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Jagiellonian University, president of the Polish Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, initiator of the "Safe Patient" campaign, talks about the differences between anesthesia and sedation and new drugs in...
A health minister's regulation is set to take effect on May 1, which calls for emergency contraception to be available to people over the age of 15, after a pharmacist has interviewed and issued a prescription. The draft has been sent for public consultation, which will last two weeks.
On Monday, April 8, the next meeting of the Transparency Council.
As of April 1, 2024, oncology patients will have access to 7 new reimbursable therapies. This is important news for patients with melanoma, cervical and ovarian cancer, as well as gastrointestinal and hematological cancers, among others.
President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda, on the basis of Article 122(5) of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland, has decided to refer the amendment to the Pharmaceutical Law to the Sejm of the Republic of Poland with a request for reconsideration of the law.
Prof. Jaroslaw Slawek, head of the neurology and stroke unit at St. Adalbert Hospital in Gdansk, talks about deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease.
Teva Pharmaceuticals Poland will have a new CEO - Ewa Królikowska, previously commercial director of RX and vice president of distribution, will take over the position in April 2024. She will lead the commercial team of the company, which is a global leader in the pharmaceutical market and one of...
The drug program in operation in Poland for patients with retinal diseases (B.70) is world-class, experts agree. Since January, it has been reimbursing pharizymab, a bispecific antibody with high efficacy, administered by injections into the eye up to once every four months. Ophthalmologists...
The Purple Day holiday has been celebrated since 2008 and still hardly anyone in Poland has heard of it. - Today I, Alicia from EPI-BOHATER, have this little dream that you join in raising awareness and spreading knowledge about epilepsy. Epilepsy affects our lives, but it doesn't define who we...
As of April 1, 2024, patients with multiple sclerosis will have access to a new subcutaneous form of natalizumab therapy administration. According to Prof. Monika Adamczyk-Sowa, MD, head of the Department of Neurology in Zabrze at the Silesian Medical University in Katowice, and president of the...
Immunotherapy is entering very strongly into the treatment of many cancers, but especially in cervical cancer it has brought a breakthrough. Very good therapies are already registered for both first- and second-line treatment. Refunds, unfortunately, are not. This is a change expected and desired...
Once a year, the Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Tarification prepares a list of highly innovative drug technologies for the Minister of Health. What therapies are included in the proposals to the MZ?
The Health Ministry has published the new composition of the Economic Commission. The Economic Commission is a team that conducts price negotiations with applicants for reimbursement of drugs, foodstuffs for special nutritional purposes and medical devices. The Commission, in accordance with...
On Tuesday, March 19, the next meeting of the Transparency Council.
Gynecology, gynecologic oncology, cardiology and rare diseases are areas where there will be changes regarding treatment as a result of the new list of reimbursed drugs coming into effect. Patients have gained access to reimbursement for 7 therapies in oncology indications and 26 non-oncology...
The latest list of reimbursed drugs includes 33 new substances, including seven in oncology indications. - This is the largest expansion of the reimbursement list since 2012, says Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna.
As announced by Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna, starting April 1 this year, patients will pay 10% less for drugs made in Poland and 15% less - if, in addition, ingredients made in our country were used in their production.
Achondroplasia is a rare genetic disease manifested, among other things, by short stature. About 560 children in Poland struggle with it. The Children's Ombudsman and the Patient Ombudsman have made a joint request to the manufacturer of the drug, which is intended for children affected by...
Endometriosis is a condition that affects about 6 to 10% of women between the ages of 15 and 49. As experts estimate, the disease may affect up to 3 million women in our country. The main problem is the late diagnosis of the disease, after an average of 6-8 years of pain disabling women from...
The Chief Pharmaceutical Inspector has decided to suspend nationwide marketing of the medicinal product named Paracetamol Aflofarm (Paracetamolum) oral suspension, 120 mg/5 ml, 1 bottle 100 ml GTIN 05909991076115 for the following series: Lot number: 04AF0622, expiration date: 30.06.2025 Lot...
An interview with Professor Krzysztof Giannopoulos of the Department of Experimental Hematooncology at the Medical University of Lublin.
Interview with Zbigniew Pawlowski, president of the Association of Families of Patients with Amyloidosis.
Today (March 4) another meeting of the Transparency Council.
The Minister of Health reminds that important changes to annual prescriptions come into effect on March 1, 2024.
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