Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna has appointed Prof. Jaroslaw Regula, head of the Oncology Gastroenterology Clinic at the National Cancer Institute, for another five-year term as national consultant in gastroenterology.
Since 2005, life expectancy in the EU has increased by more than a year, but years lived in health have increased by less than a year. In Poland, we have an even bigger problem: although life expectancy has also increased by a year, but the number of years lived in health has not only not...
The Board of Directors of the Polish Society of Cardiology has decided on a theme for activities in 2025. Considering the scale of cardiovascular diseases, the current year has been declared the Year of Genetic Diagnosis in Cardiology, thus emphasizing the key role of genetic testing in the...
It's not good if politics starts dealing with health," is how Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna commented on Wednesday on reports of a change in the government's plans to introduce health education in schools. This was Leszczyna's first official statement on the topic, which the environment has...
Adrenal hyperplasia is a condition of sudden and severe cortisol deficiency that can be immediately life-threatening. It occurs most often in patients with Addison's disease, but can also affect people with secondary or tertiary adrenal insufficiency. Proper preparation and prompt response can...
Scents have extraordinary power to influence our emotions, mood and well-being. Scientists have long studied how they affect the nervous system, particularly the neurotransmitters responsible for our emotions. What's more, properly chosen scents can act as a natural antidote to stress and improve...
On Monday, January 20, the next meeting of the AOTMiT Transparency Council.
The laws governing health care in Poland change so frequently that we can also expect at least some significant innovations in pharmaceutical and medical legislation in the new year, 2025.
Contrary to the hopes of the medical community, there will be no breakthrough when it comes to introducing health education in schools. Following Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, KO presidential candidate Rafal Trzaskowski and now Prime Minister Donald Tusk have opted for making the subject optional....
The Ministry of Health has published a new list of drugs and medical devices at risk of unavailability on Polish territory. These drugs must not be exported abroad. Which preparations and medical devices are missing?
The Małopolska Branch of the National Health Fund is forcing the signing of unfavorable financial annexes, which in practice paralyzes the activities of facilities and hits patients. Already a third facility in Małopolska has reported that it is being forced to return previously allocated and...
The OZZL Residents' Agreement expresses its strong support for the introduction of the compulsory subject "health education" to the curriculum in Polish schools. In the face of growing public health misinformation and alarming statistics on vaccination refusals, education in this area is an...
It was supposed to be mandatory, but will it be? On Sunday afternoon, Deputy Prime Minister and head of the People's Party, Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, otherwise a doctor, announced that health education will enter schools as an optional subject, so all those protesting (under the slogans of...
The Health Ministry publishes a communication from the Minister of Health regarding medicinal products not subject to financing under the procedure for emergency access to drug technologies.
Actually, it's not transplants but transplants (that's what the procedure is called), and a transplant is just what is transplanted. Well, up to June 2011, 462 autologous i.e. own hematopoietic cell transplants performed to treat multiple sclerosis were reported to the European Society for Blood...
The Patients' Rights Ombudsman received nearly 100,000 notifications in 2023, according to the MPC's report, which was approved by the Parliamentary Health Committee on Wednesday. More than 1.8 thousand individual cases were found to have violated patient rights.
The next meeting of the Transparency Council will be held on Monday, January 13.
It is impossible to realize better healthcare and implement those solutions available to clinicians without raising healthcare spending, experts stressed at the December meeting of the Medical Rationale of State.
- We need new therapies for rare diseases and oncology, among others. We have great scientists and fantastic centers. With the creation of hubs in each region, we want to increase the development of research, especially for patients in waiting for new therapies," said Deputy Health Minister...
The contamination of melatonin taken by Iga Swiatek probably occurred when the production line was switched from one drug to another. However, this does not mean that the manufacturer did not follow safety standards. Manufactured batches of melatonin were tested, and the tests did not reveal the...
On the basis of an expert opinion carried out by the National Institute of Medicine, the Chief Pharmaceutical Inspector has decided to withdraw from marketing nationwide a series of the medicinal product Senesa leaf (Sennae foliolum) 30 mg ± 5% of hydroxyanthracene glycosides calculated as...
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