Fundacja Żyjmy Zdrowo oraz Polsko-Amerykańska Fundacja Onkologiczna zapraszają do obejrzenia pełnego zapisu wideo II KONGRESU ZDROWIA MĘŻCZYZN.
Flu vaccines are now available, autumn is coming, so it's a good idea to protect yourself against infection," Chief Sanitary Inspector Dr. Pawel Grzesiowski said at a press conference on Tuesday (Oct. 1). - I would like this kind of thinking to function in the minds of Poles.
Poznan in the large cities category and Sopot in the smaller cities category are the winners of the 3rd edition of the Healthy Cities Index. It presents living conditions in 66 Polish cities with county rights. What are the further places on the podium and which cities became leaders in the eight...
About 90,000 people die each year in Poland from hypertension. It turns out that at the root of the problem lies primarily non-adherence to therapeutic recommendations. Servier has launched a campaign with an emphasis precisely on adherence. Practical materials are to teach patients how to take...
- We are discussing how to rebuild the Nysa hospital in another location. This is my dream, because we want to avoid in the future such a situation as we faced during the floods. What is needed is a modern center, for the 21st century," said Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna in the program One on...
"Common goals, common actions. A candidate of dialogue," this was the motto of Prof. Rafal Krenke, MD, who will be Rector of the Medical University of Warsaw for the 2024-2028 term. He received an absolute majority of votes in the first voting period. To date, Prof. Rafal Krenke has served as...
Retina Week is International Retinal Disease Awareness Week, celebrated annually in the last week of September. It's an important time to focus on eye health through educational activities about the prevention and treatment of retinal diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and...
Gene therapy program for children with spinal muscular atrophy
- A field military hospital has been developed in Nysa, with the participation of the management and doctors, nurses of the Nysa hospital, which had to be evacuated. The field hospital in Nysa is in operation. If someone needs help, there is this initial help, but also that of a specialized...
Treatment entities affected by the floods can apply for basic and urgent needs assistance, the Health Ministry reminds.
Smoking marijuana has also joined the risk factors for neck and head cancers, experts from the University Clinical Center in Gdansk point out. However, it turns out that even a person who never smokes and does not abuse alcohol can get sick. The culprit is the human papilloma virus, or HPV.
The European Brain Council (EBC), member organizations, national brain councils and more than 100 supporting partners are rallying support for increasing the priority of brain health in the European Union's health and research programs. In Poland, the campaign and the appeal have been endorsed by...
O tym jak choroba wpływa na życie całej rodziny mówi w rozmowie z Medexpressem Teresa Brzozowska-Nieczaj, mama Kacpra i Karola - bliźniaków chorujących na ataksję Friedricha.
Five years of experience, related to the functioning of the drug program in Poland, concerning the treatment of SMA, confirmed that we are dealing with a model solution. This does not mean, however, that there is no room for change. The first ones have already occurred and concerned pregnant...
The Gedeon Richter Poland study is dedicated to men - their health, emotions and self-acceptance. The latest report "Understanding Masculinity. The reality of the Polish man" debunks popular stereotypes about tough, insensitive men.
- It would be worthwhile to expand the indications and simplify the path to get into the drug program. These elements are also reported to us by patients themselves. They say that they suffer from depression, nothing helps them, but for some reason they cannot get into this program. So the change...
- Lack of knowledge about the need for treatment, proper management, as well as the therapies and topical treatment options available in the drug program evidently translates into a reduced supply of the correct drugs, says Col. Prof. Witold Owczarek, head of the Department of Dermatology at the...
Press conference by Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna on the draft of the new list of reimbursed drugs as of October 1, 2024.
We talk to Alicia Lisowska, president of the Epi-Bohater Foundation, about the results of a study on the stigmatization of patients with central nervous system disorders.
"Consideration of information from the Minister of Health on the availability of the drug Ozempic and plans to ensure it in the future."
We ask Prof. Dominika Dudek, president of the Polish Psychiatric Association, about the study's findings on the stigmatization of patients with central nervous system disorders.
- Children are very much affected by returning to school. It's often a new environment for them, and they don't know if the classmates they sat in the bench with will still want to sit with them. We adults have a big challenge ahead of us to support our children against the tide of peer...
- The needs for molecular diagnostics are very urgent and met only to a certain extent. We must divide patients who need targeted therapy and require molecular diagnostics into two groups. The first is oncology patients, who have reimbursed high-throughput genomic testing or next-generation...
- We are in the process of proceeding with amendments to ban the sale of all such products, both nicotine-containing and nicotine-free, until the age of 18. Currently, the law only talks about nicotine. There are harmful substances in these disposable nicotine-free inhalation devices as well,"...
- It is important that we start investing in our body, because it is our health that will be with us for life. If we want to enjoy it for a long time, we should start with this investment. My generation was the backyard generation, today is the car seat generation, because we drive our children...
- It used to be that the school nurse was someone who was valued and used in the school from start to finish. Students also had access to dentists, for example, and now it's mostly private visits... I think it's worthwhile to take care of the role of the nurse at school. This potential is...
- We have focused a lot over the decades on diseases, on how to prevent them as well, but especially on how to treat them, how to proceed, how to rehabilitate them. This is very important and this has often been neglected as well, but without the element of education we won't move said Deputy...
The President of the UODO has fined the Independent Public Health Care Center in Pajęczno 40 thousand zlotys. As a result of the hacking attack, the facility lost access to patient and employee data. It took corrective action only after the fact. Before that, it had not conducted a risk analysis...
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.
- We need to determine, first of all, who should be the ultimate beneficiaries of what the health premium looks like and how much it is. I understand the indignation of entrepreneurs, but at the same time I know what problems health care is currently facing. The task of the Medical Council is to...
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.
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