Poznan in the large cities category and Sopot in the smaller cities category are the winners of the 3rd edition of the Healthy Cities Index. It presents living conditions in 66 Polish cities with county rights. What are the further places on the podium and which cities became leaders in the eight...
Epidemiological data indicate that life expectancy in Poland, depending on, among other things, place of residence, level of education, amount and source of income, or gender, can vary by up to a dozen years. Only appropriate systemic solutions can help reduce health inequalities. Recognizing...
About 90,000 people die each year in Poland from hypertension. It turns out that at the root of the problem lies primarily non-adherence to therapeutic recommendations. Servier has launched a campaign with an emphasis precisely on adherence. Practical materials are to teach patients how to take...
Collagen is a key protein that gives our skin its elasticity, firmness and youthful appearance. Unfortunately, after the age of 25, its production begins to gradually decline - by as much as 1-1.5% per year. This is when the first signs of aging appear: wrinkles, loss of firmness, and visible...
We are after awarding the tender. The first batch of COVID-19 vaccines will arrive on October 15, and the second on October 30," Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna told TVP on Monday.
The Health Committee will address on Tuesday the financial situation of the National Health Fund and the prospect of the payer settling its obligations for excess and unlimited services. It's hardly surprising, as anxiety on the part of healthcare providers has begun to grow compulsively in...
Since the beginning of the year, dentists have not been paid for procedures they performed over the limit under their contracts with the National Health Service. Until now, such overages have been paid quarterly, allowing them to see patients on an ongoing basis. Now, however, doctors are having...
The coordinated care program was supposed to bring better quality services to patients, but instead it is starting to generate financial problems for PCP clinics. Despite the fact that already one-third of POZ clinics have joined the program, in many regions the National Health Service has still...
On Monday, September 30, the next meeting of the Transparency Council.
By the end of September and by early October at the latest, the National Health Fund will settle with hospitals all unlimited services performed in the second quarter, Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna assured. She reiterated the promise, made on Thursday during the General Assembly of the Union...
Will the Ministry of Health meet the demand of the pediatric neurology medical community and extend the availability of gene therapy to children whose screening tests found four copies of the SMN2 gene?
- For parents, the possibility of vaccinating their children in schools is a great convenience, a convenience. I encourage parents to contact school principals, teachers and the health inspection," said Chief Sanitary Inspector Dr. Pawel Grzesiowski in an interview with Medexpress during the...
- We are discussing how to rebuild the Nysa hospital in another location. This is my dream, because we want to avoid in the future such a situation as we faced during the floods. What is needed is a modern center, for the 21st century," said Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna in the program One on...
"Common goals, common actions. A candidate of dialogue," this was the motto of Prof. Rafal Krenke, MD, who will be Rector of the Medical University of Warsaw for the 2024-2028 term. He received an absolute majority of votes in the first voting period. To date, Prof. Rafal Krenke has served as...
Retina Week is International Retinal Disease Awareness Week, celebrated annually in the last week of September. It's an important time to focus on eye health through educational activities about the prevention and treatment of retinal diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and...
Polish pharmacists are celebrating their holiday today. At the end of 2023, 11.5 thousand pharmacies (public and company pharmacies) and 1.1 thousand pharmacy points were in operation, with 57.8 thousand master pharmacists and pharmacy technicians working there, according to data from the Central...
- Only 6 percent of Polish children in the first years of elementary school are fit. And I'm not talking about physical activity, just the ability to do basic physical exercises. Then these kids don't want to exercise in PE classes. This is a problem that is very difficult to solve, but it's a...
It would seem that fatigue is such a temporary condition that can be dealt with after a long day at work or a sleepless night. But what if this fatigue becomes an inseparable companion in life, closing the door to daily joys and simple pleasures? What if every morning brings not the desired...
- We have diagnoses such as bipolar affective disorder, schizophrenia, and depressive episodes of varying severity that require pharmacotherapy. Bipolar affective disorder and schizophrenia absolutely require it to sort out the biology of the central nervous system. This is where we have a...
Epidemiological surveillance is one of the main sources of information on the incidence of notifiable and registerable infectious diseases, including invasive bacterial diseases, emphasize the participants of the conference "Diagnosis of the functioning of epidemiological surveillance in Poland...
After the busy holiday season, when the skin is exposed to the sun, chlorinated water and salty seawater, more and more Polish women and men are opting for skin care treatments. Autumn is the perfect time for skin regeneration and preventive dermatological examinations. Among the most popular...
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