22 maja b.r. na stronach Rządowego Centrum Legislacji opublikowano wreszcie długo zapowiadany projekt kolejnej dużej nowelizacji ustawy o refundacji leków, środków spożywczych specjalnego przeznaczenia żywieniowego oraz wyrobów medycznych. Nowelizacja, która miała być najpierw szybka (i dlatego...
Poland has moved up to second place in the Access GAP ranking, which assesses access to innovative therapies in the Visegrad countries, and we are now a really small distance from the leader, the Czech Republic (64 points, down 5 points). However, there is also worse news: we are very clearly...
University Clinical Hospital No. 4 in Lublin has entered into an agreement on cooperation with the Silesian Center for Heart Diseases in Zabrze - one of the most important transplant and cardiac surgery centers in Poland. The cooperation will primarily benefit the patients of the Clinical...
We are no longer in doubt today. The sooner we incorporate modern treatment, the higher the clinical, economic and social benefits are for a given system," says Dr. n. ekon. Malgorzata Galazka-Sobotka, director of the Institute for Healthcare Management at Lazarski University in Warsaw.
The AOTMiT has calculated the amount needed for July's raises, but for now only in the minimum variant, i.e. for full-time employees - 9.1 billion zlotys per year are needed for this purpose. The agency must prepare a set of recommendations by June 5, and there is no indication that it will be...
An amendment to the reimbursement law has gone out for consultation. The main goal is to simplify procedures, remove administrative barriers and increase the availability of medicines.
To treat it well, you need to diagnose the disease and know a lot about it, you need to learn it. The Polish Society for the Treatment of Obesity has developed certain standards on how to approach this disease," explains Dr. Agnieszka Gorgoń-Komor, senator of the Republic of Poland.
Multiple sclerosis affects young people. These diagnoses come when people are actually starting their social life, family life, career. So it is extremely important that we offer therapies that fit their lifestyle," says Malina Wieczorek, president of SM Walcz o Siebie.
Sejm uchwalił nowelizację ustawy antytytoniowej, która po raz pierwszy kompleksowo reguluje rynek elektronicznych papierosów i woreczków nikotynowych. Nowe przepisy mają ograniczyć dostęp do tych produktów osobom niepełnoletnim, zakazać ich sprzedaży w internecie i automatach oraz wprowadzić...
Although epilepsy affects hundreds of thousands of people in Poland, the public's knowledge of the disease is still surprisingly low. We talk to Alicja Lisowska - president of the EPI-BOHATER Foundation - about dangerous myths that can threaten health and life, and about simple but effective ways...
Sepsis is not a disease in the traditional sense, but a set of symptoms of organ failure resulting from the body's violent response to infection. Although it is most often caused by bacteria, it can also result from viral or fungal infections. Regardless of the cause, sepsis is an immediate life-...
The Polish Neurological Society has delivered sad news: Prof. Danuta Ryglewicz, MD, PhD - an outstanding specialist in neurology, a respected researcher and one of the most important figures in modern medicine in Poland - has passed away. She devoted her entire professional life to neurology,...
"The My Health prevention program should be mandatory," said MP Norbert Pietrykowski in an interview with Medexpress during the Patient Empowerment Congress.
The President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda, handed out nomination acts to academic teachers and employees of science and the arts. Twenty-seven professorial appointments were given to health-related individuals.
Following a thorough analysis of the drug safety system in Poland, the Supreme Audit Office began inspections of key institutions responsible for drug trading on May 20. Among the things to be checked will be the effectiveness of supervision of pharmaceutical establishments and measures to...
The risk of recurrence in early breast cancer is high. Despite good reimbursement decisions, there is still a group of patients with an unmet health need. - It is a huge achievement to be able to predict and secure the risk of recurrence earlier. We are counting on reimbursements that will...
Everyday life with Friedreich's ataxia is a constant struggle against limitations - both physical and mental. Every day brings new challenges and the need to adapt to the body's changing capabilities. However, there is hope - a drug that works, as Joanna Kostrzewska, who struggles with...
-A large proportion of sepsis cases actually start at home. Of course, there are also sepsis in the hospital, while such sepsis in the hospital is much easier to diagnose, which does not mean that hospital sepsis is always diagnosed in time and that we have nothing to do in this area either....
Czy w polskim systemie ochrony zdrowia brakuje pieniędzy, czy raczej pomysłu, jak je mądrze wydawać? – Jedno nie wyklucza drugiego – mówi Jakub Szulc, wiceprezes Narodowego Funduszu Zdrowia. I wskazuje, że choć nakłady na ochronę zdrowia wciąż są niższe niż w innych krajach europejskich, to i tak...
In Poland, too many women are still losing to cancer, even though they could be alive - if only they had been screened earlier. MP Katarzyna Piekarska, chairwoman of the parliamentary team for cancer prevention "Cancer Stop", talks about why prevention must become a daily habit, like brushing teeth.
Digitization has become a daily occurrence in health care. Registration management and medical record keeping are now done electronically, and the computer is one of the primary tools for medics. In choosing the right equipment, what matters most is performance and compliance with current...
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