In the face of increasingly pronounced demographic remodeling and lengthening populations, 2026 brings the question of what kind of vision of old age we want to build together - one where dignity, activity and care are the foundation of health and social policy. A vision where old age is not a...
Every year, 25,000 women in Poland receive the same diagnosis—breast cancer. There is also one question they all ask themselves: Can I live a normal life? Today, thanks to advances in targeted therapies, many patients have a real chance at a permanent cure. What life is like with the disease, why...
The 65+ List has reduced the problem of treatment discontinuation due to financial reasons among seniors and improved access to modern therapies for this group of patients — says Dr. Małgorzata Kupisz-Urbańska, M.D., from the Geriatrics Clinic and the Department of Gerontocardiology at the...
Just a dozen or so years ago, HER2-positive breast cancer was considered a cancer with a very poor prognosis. Today, thanks to targeted therapies and modern methods of drug delivery, many patients can be cured, while others live with the disease for many years. Magdalena Kardynał, president of...
Ustawa umożliwiająca zbieranie umów „na PESEL” jest w rękach senatorów – decyzja zapadnie w tym tygodniu i należy się spodziewać, że będzie to decyzja w 100 procentach po myśli rządu, czyli że izba wyższa nie dopatrzy się w przepisach niczego wymagającego oprawy.
It is well known that doctors—as well as other healthcare workers—often work at more than one location. Experts and officials have long proposed introducing regulations that would allow for the collection of data on employment contracts using the PESEL number or PWZ number: this would provide...
The case reported by the media regarding the earnings of a young doctor, who generated revenue from medical practice well in excess of 1.5 mln zł over the course of a year, has accelerated work on a draft amendment to the regulations, allowing contracts to be registered using a PESEL number and a...
A decade ago, a program providing free medications to seniors was launched. Since then, the number of available medications has more than tripled, and the program has covered millions of patients. Prof. Ewa Marcinowska-Suchowierska, a specialist in internal medicine and geriatrics, discusses the...
Podskórna forma podawania leków anty-HER2 pozwala skrócić czas terapii z kilku godzin do zaledwie kilku minut. Dla pacjentek oznacza to większą swobodę i łatwiejsze planowanie codziennych aktywności, a dla systemu ochrony zdrowia – sprawniejszą organizację leczenia. O korzyściach tej zmiany...
The Health Ministry will provide guidelines for updating the lists of free medicines within two weeks and changes to the lists (primarily the list for seniors) will occur with the publication of the next reimbursement list in October.
Hormonal changes affect the physical and mental well-being of nearly nine out of ten Polish women. At the same time, many women feel left behind - they lack reliable information, support from the health care system and open social discussion about menopause. These are the conclusions of the study...
Twenty-five new therapies, ten oncological and fifteen non-oncological, will bring patients the July reimbursement list. As Deputy Health Minister Katarzyna Kacperczyk said on Thursday, the announcement will be signed on Wednesday, there may still be some change on it.
On Monday, June 15, the next meeting of the Transparency Council.
After 7 years of breakthrough therapy, more than half of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer are alive without any tumor progression, and researchers are not yet able to determine the time limit of its effectiveness. The prognosis of patients in whom the previous standard of...
There will be no express passage of the amendment to the Law on Patients' Rights and Patients' Ombudsman. The Health Committee on Tuesday decided to appoint a subcommittee to carefully analyze the government draft. MPs, including from the ruling coalition, have doubts that the proposals prepared...
Experts: without the introduction of modern therapeutic solutions, the problem will grow
Three years ago, on June 1, 2023, the HPV vaccination program began. Poland joined more than 120 countries around the world, including virtually all European countries, that have vaccination programs aimed at children and adolescents. Previously, many local governments ran their programs - some...
Shortening postgraduate internship, new rules for recruitment to specializations, compulsory oral part of PES, State Competency Examination during specialization - these are just some of the changes to the Law on the Profession of Physician and Dentist proposed by the Ministry of Health. The...
CAR-T therapy is already reimbursed for the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia and lymphoma. But not for myeloma. Clinicians, scientific societies and patients themselves are waiting for a reimbursement decision and are convinced that it's a matter of time and system responsibility.
Young Poles are using alcohol less and less. Only a few percent smoke traditional cigarettes. The popularity of drugs is also falling. This could be very positive information, but the research, conducted by CBOS, does not give grounds for optimism. The popularity of e-cigarettes is breaking...
On Monday, June 8, the next meeting of the Transparency Council.
The Ministry of Health has published a list of medicinal products that are not subject to financing under the Rescue Access to Drug Technology (RDTL) procedure. The Health Ministry assures that patients who started treatment before the list came into effect retain the right to continue therapy -...
In the two years since the launch of the government's in vitro reimbursement program, 15,000 children have been born, and 40,000 couples have already benefited from the support. On the occasion of the program's second anniversary, government representatives summed up its effects to date and...
The nurses' and midwives' self-government does not agree with the MZ's proposed changes to the midwifery education system, i.e. the elimination of a separate bachelor's degree program in this field. If they go into effect, experts warn, midwives will begin to decline and the scale of overstaffing...
On June 1, 2026, Health Minister Jolanta Sobieranska-Grenda appointed Rafal Główczynski as Director General of the Ministry of Health.
Poland is aging at a rapid pace. In this context, the 65+ free drug list is not just a social benefit, but an important tool of the health care system. At the Medical Rationale of State press briefing, experts agreed: the program should be protected and expanded.
On Monday, June 1, the next meeting of the Transparency Council.
Wroclaw Medical University has just been among nineteen scientific institutions in Europe that have been awarded a Teaming for Exellence grant - one of the most prestigious European grants supporting the creation of centers of excellence in countries with a less developed scientific sector. The...
The Ministries of Health, State Assets and Infrastructure have signed an agreement on joint activities to promote prevention and health education. The initiative is expected to increase Poles' health awareness and improve reporting on free preventive examinations, which are still used by too few...
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