The IVF program, prenatal testing, increasing the availability of perinatal anesthesia and implementing the National Cancer Network are the biggest and real successes of her ministry over the ten months in government, according to the health minister. The financial situation is challenging, but,...
Prof. Janusz Klatka, MD, head of the Clinical Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Laryngological Oncology at the University Clinical Hospital No. 4 in Lublin, was elected the new president-elect of the Polish Society of Otorhinolaryngologists Head and Neck Surgeons. The election was made during...
The website of the Polish Psychiatric Association has published "Guidelines for psychiatrists on making a judgment about a threat to the life or health of a pregnant woman as a basis for legal termination of pregnancy."
The Health Ministry is publishing an announcement on a new therapy for young patients with hemophilia.
Last Saturday (19.10.), during the 13th Congress of the Polish Society of Family Medicine in Wroclaw, an Extraordinary General Meeting of PTMR members was held. During the meeting, elections of the new Board of Directors were held. Agnieszka Mastalerz-Migas, MD, UMW professor, was elected...
The vast majority of mushrooms are not edible, but neither are they poisonous. However, relying on folk ways to identify dangerous species can end tragically. We spoke with Dr. Michał Sutkowski, president-elect of the College of Family Physicians in Poland and associate dean of the Faculty of...
A team of doctors from the National Cancer Institute in Gliwice, led by Prof. Gabriela Kramer-Marek, became the first in Poland to use PET radiolabeling for non-invasive imaging of the HER2 receptor in a 41-year-old patient with disseminated breast cancer. They obtained high uptake in several...
- PCPs have been given tools and diagnostic capabilities at their facilities. It's a much broader package of tests, including those that were previously only available in outpatient specialty care," Magdalena Kolodziej, president of the We Patients Foundation, says in an interview with Medexpress...
- It is worth getting vaccinated. Keep in mind that especially in seniors, immunity is declining. It is similarly weak as in children, who do not yet have a mature immune response. Seniors, on the other hand, unfortunately, already have immune system cells at an advanced age - weaker - and...
It will reduce the time for processing reimbursement applications by a third and be about half a million zlotys cheaper for the responsible entity in the case of cardiovascular drugs with well-established efficacy. The Health Ministry has announced a list of substances covered by such a...
- For us, the most important goal is that the doctor of the future should not be afraid to treat," said Lukasz Jankowski, president of the Supreme Medical Council, during a conference for doctors in training, Kick off Meeting, organized in Otwock by the District Medical Chamber in Warsaw. The NRL...
- When someone reaches the appropriate age, for example, our system will automatically issue a referral and generate this information. The patient just needs to go for the vaccination. We started a few years ago with a low response rate. Today, about 50 percent of people from such referrals...
The selection of the head of the Medical Center for Postgraduate Education is to be made by a panel of experts, indicated by the Minister of Health, and not by the Electoral College - such a change results from the draft amendment to the Law on CMKP, which is already out for consultation. The...
Allegro responds to the law changes and halts the pilot of alcohol sales.
- Signals of financial problems have been reaching us for some time, but the last few weeks show that these are no longer speculations, but real and tangible consequences," says Magdalena Kolodziej, president of the We Patients Foundation, about the difficult financial situation at the NFZ....
The macroeconomic impact of the domestic pharmaceutical sector on the economy is more than 20 billion zlotys. This is as much as we spend from the state budget on the police and fire departments. The industry has the ability to maintain financial stability and generate results that distinguish it...
NMOSD is a rare autoimmune nervous system disease with an aggressive course. Thanks to the provisions of the B.138.FM drug program, we have the opportunity in Poland to treat patients with seropositive NMOSD in accordance with the latest medical knowledge and current expert recommendations," says...
Consideration of information on the organization of the system of care for patients with blood cancers - presented by the Minister of Health.
The conference Environmental and Climate Challenges and Public Health will be held on October 24 in Warsaw at the Magna Hall at 99/103 Marymoncka St. Invited by an interdisciplinary research team of specialists from the Center for Meteorological Modeling IMGW-PIB and the Center for Medical...
- Only 10-15 percent of doctors vaccinate against influenza. People see that doctors don't vaccinate, and if we don't set an example for them, we can't require our patients to be willing to vaccinate. The medical community, unfortunately, is a bit of a barrier when it comes to vaccination...
"The COVID-19 vaccines will arrive in Poland today and we will begin the process of distribution to wholesalers and then vaccination centers," Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna said on TOK FM radio.
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