A regulation will be issued within a month that will limit doctors' ability to issue prescriptions via teleprescription. The Health Minister announces that this will primarily apply to psychotropic drugs.
Half a billion zlotys was spent by Poland on health care services for Ukrainian refugees during the ten months of 2022, according to data provided by the National Health Fund in February, a year after Russia invaded our eastern neighbor. The benefits are primarily primary health care, which,...
Shame, low self-esteem, loneliness, and often depression as a consequence. This is what life is like for many people who stutter. A lot of myths have grown up around this affliction, and there are many methods of therapy. But specialists agree on one thing: stuttering can be cured and it should...
After returning from Uganda, he couldn't look at food for several weeks. There, on one dollar a day, a whole village had to survive. A dozen or so people. Including young children.
April 15 is World Pompe Disease Day. This ultra-rare, genetic disease is a difficult opponent, both to diagnose and treat, especially since the process of the disease and the age of onset of symptoms are variable. The first symptoms can occur at any age, but the earlier they appear, the faster...
In 2019-2021, the Minister of Family and Social Policy was late in announcing the Program on assistant services for people with disabilities. Contracts for the implementation of support were concluded after the deadline. It happened that people with disabilities had to wait six months for...
In just two years, we are seeing a marked increase in interest in drugs from the GLP-1 analog group. In the case of Ozempic, we are seeing a six-fold increase in packages dispensed. Trulicity is a nearly eightfold increase in just 24 months.
The first Polish Congress of Neurology and Psychiatry, organized by Prof. Agnieszka Slowik and Prof. Piotr Galecki, is behind us.
An Order of the Minister of Health dated April 12, 2023 on the establishment of a Plenipotentiary of the Minister of Health for the coordination of activities in the implementation of psychiatric care reform was published in the OJ of the Ministry of Health.
- We call for the adoption of the new edition of the National Program for the Treatment of Patients with Hemophilia and Related Hemorrhagic Diathesis as soon as possible. Access to necessary amounts of clotting factor concentrates is a chance for patients to live a normal life," said Bogdan...
Few diseases are perceived as "feminine" to the extent that breast cancer is. That's why breast cancer was the theme of the opening panel of the 2nd Women's Health Congress, held in Warsaw on March 8, 2023.
A medical rescue team is not always available, so the teams in the guards will serve as auxiliaries, Deputy Health Minister Waldemar Kraska assured during Wednesday's meeting of the Senate Health Committee. Kraska, who himself oversees medical rescue, did not directly cut himself off from the...
On Wednesday (12.04.), a meeting was held between representatives of the Health Ministry and the chairwoman of the Polish Association of Speech-Language Therapists, Milena Stasiak, on the pending law on certain medical professions and the demands of the PZL addressed to the Health Ministry.
The Diet is likely to decide on the Law on Quality in Health Care and Patient Safety on Friday afternoon. The Health Committee on Wednesday recommended that the Sejm reject the Senate's resolution to reject the law in its entirety.
The Independent Public Clinical Hospital No. 4 in Lublin performs interdisciplinary procedures using plastic, reconstructive and microsurgery. Among other things, an advanced multidisciplinary operation was recently performed on a patient with orbital cancer.
On April 15 this year will be held the XXIX. Scientific Symposium of the National Institute of Cardiology. The formula of the event provides for numerous panel discussions and speeches by experts on new directions in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. The discussions will be...
The Supreme Chamber of Physicians, being a member of the Alliance of Medical Organizations, is working to consolidate the medical community in the common goal of stopping the legislative process, harmful to patients and doctors, of the bill on quality in health care and patient safety. The...
Resort zdrowia podał dane za okres od 6 do 12 kwietnia.: mamy 4 761 (w tym 1 083 ponownych zakażeń) potwierdzonych przypadków zakażenia koronawirusem z województw:mazowieckiego (841),lubelskiego (395),śląskiego (358),wielkopolskiego (327),zachodniopomorskiego (318),małopolskiego (312),łódzkiego...
Nearly 300,000 scheduled appointments at city clinics and hospitals in Warsaw last year did not take place because patients did not show up for them, reports the capital's City Hall. As a result, waiting times to see a doctor are getting longer. Meanwhile, all it takes is one phone call to unlock...
Do konsultacji przekazano dwa projekty rozporządzeń dot. dokumentacji medycznej.
The Coalition for Hospital Safety is extending its hospital safety and quality certification program from March 31 to April 14 this year, giving medical facilities more time to review and complete the application form. What are the benefits of joining the "Safe Hospital is Safe Patient" program?...
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