Primary bone tumors account for about 6-7% of the incidence among young cancer patients, and their cure rate is estimated at about 65-75%[1]. Whether or not a child recovers, and how comfortable his or her life will be during and after treatment, depends largely on the stage at which the disease...
There will be no regionalization, but legal changes are needed to increase access to physiotherapy at home
Effective June 1, 2023, Geraldine Schenk will assume the position of Managing Director of Janssen Poland.Geraldine Schenk began her career at Johnson & Johnson in 2003 at Janssen Switzerland, where she was promoted several times, eventually serving as Chief Commercial Officer and Board Member of...
Dr. Christine Greer of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Boca Raton, Florida, says that by analyzing the optic nerve and retina, it is possible to obtain detailed information about the normalities and abnormalities of our nervous system. This includes a diagnosis for Alzheimer's...
Iwona Schymalla's guest is MP Barbara Dziuk, one of the most active people in politics in the area of health.
The Gynecological and Obstetrical Clinical Hospital of the Poznan University of Medical Sciences has donated medical equipment that will go to medical centers in Cameroon. These are devices that could no longer be used in Poland.
Last week, a kidney was harvested from a living donor using the da Vinci robotic system for the first time at a hospital in Szczecin's Pomorzany district. This is the third such donation in Poland. The recipient was the son of the donor.
The prevalence of asthma in Polish patients is steadily increasing, and we can meet the need for adequate monitoring of the disease in primary care centers. However, there is still a great need for more precise asthma control measures.
As of January 1, 2023, new rules for the advertising of medical products apply. I invite you to a series of publications on this topic.
"Angels of Prematurity" went to people who have made special contributions to improving the care of premature babies and spreading awareness of the smallest of the young. Among those honored by the Coalition for Prematurity were our editorial colleagues: Iwona Schymalla and Edyta Hetmanowska.
Znów odnotowujemy wzrost chorych pacjentów z COVID-19 w poradniach, mówią specjaliści medycyny rodzinnej, przypominając o możliwości szczepień ochronnych.
Can gluten also harm those who do not have celiac disease or are not allergic to it? Can "non-celiac and nonallergic gluten sensitivity" somehow be diagnosed - we discuss this with Dr. Ewa Lange of the Department of Dietetics at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences.
Ten years ago the Coalition for the Premature Infant was founded - a social initiative created by Prof. Maria Katarzyna Borszewska-Kornacka, then president of the Polish Neonatology Society. At the time, too little was being said about premature babies and the dangers they face from the first...
KGP data shows that in 2022 there were more than 5% more suicide attempts than the year before. The reason is still most often undetermined. Last year, this was found to be the case in 5.7 thousand cases, and the year before - in 5.5 thousand. In turn, among the known causes, mental illness and...
To date, the only known consequence of Covid-19 infection in children has been PIMS, an acute and potentially dangerous generalized inflammatory syndrome caused by immune dysregulation that can lead to cardiac complications. Symptoms in the form of primarily high fever, signs of damage to at...
The 27th Warsaw Course on Cardiovascular Interventions (WCCI) workshop, organized by the Foundation for the Support of Interventional Cardiology under the auspices of the Association for Cardiovascular Interventions of the Polish Society of Cardiology and in cooperation with EAPCI and EuroPCR,...
"Yes! We can fight tuberculosis," is the slogan for World Tuberculosis Day, which falls on March 24. The most important action in the fight against tuberculosis is rapid detection and effective treatment of the disease, recalls Professor Maria Korzeniewska-Koseła of the Department of Epidemiology...
"The possibilities of lowering the age criterion for free medicines are under consideration at the Ministry of Health, are at the stage of financial analysis and thus the timing of their possible introduction is unknown," writes Deputy Health Minister Maciej Miłkowski in response to MP Monika...
Nearly half a million signatures, have been submitted to the bill on reimbursement of the in vitro fertilization procedure. It provides for the restoration of reimbursement for infertility treatment.
- We all see the need for pharmacists and other health professions to be actively involved in the system, in order to relieve the burden on doctors and serve the patient's welfare. The main subject to whom we should devote our time should be the patient, not as someone to whom we only need to...
We discuss the new recommendations of the European Society of Clinical Oncology on the management of venous thromboembolism in oncology patients with Prof. Lucjan Wyrwicz of the Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy at the National Cancer Institute, National Research Institute in Warsaw.
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