The Ministry of Health has published the new composition of the Economic Commission.
- Family medicine is a demanding specialty. We are doctors for everything. Someone will maliciously say that for nothing, but this is not the case, this should never be said. We are not "frontline" doctors, but those who have to go deeply into the somatic and psychosomatic sphere of the patient,...
- There is a singularization of old age. We observe this every day in geriatric wards. We have more and more patients who are lonely, have no indications for hospitalization, and there is nowhere to discharge them," said Prof. Tomasz Targowski, head of the Geriatrics Clinic and Polyclinic of the...
The public hearing on the projects liberalizing anti-abortion laws lasted eight hours. Supporters of the current law accused their authors of wanting to murder unborn children and sanction genocide, and argued that all four bills are unconstitutional. Supporters of liberalization spoke of women's...
The Association of Employers of Innovative Pharmaceutical Companies INFARMA has just published its annual "Access Gap" report, summarizing Polish patients' access to innovative therapies. How would you comment on the latest results?According to data published by INFARMA in its third Access GAP...
An interview with Prof. Piotr Kuna of the Medical University of Lodz.
Who is mainly affected by osteoporosis? What test is performed to detect it and how often should one undergo it? These questions, among others, were answered by MPs in a poll we conducted in the parliamentary corridors.
Interview with Deputy Minister of Health Wojciech Konieczny, conducted during the 8th Patient Empowerment Congress.
W końcu 2023 r. działalność prowadziło 11,5 tys. aptek i 1,1 tys. punktów aptecznych – podaje Główny Urząd Statystyczny. To o odpowiednio o 1,6 oraz 2,5 proc. mniej, niż w roku poprzednim. Średnio na jedną aptekę i punkt apteczny przypada niemal 3 tys. pacjentów. Okazuje się też, że zawód...
Access to innovative therapies and diagnostic solutions in Poland improved again last year, mainly due to oncology drugs and those used for rare diseases. The least progress is in chronic diseases, although clinicians stress that there has been tremendous progress in this area as well in recent...
The Announcement of the President of the National Health Fund on the implementation of the pilot program on pharmacist services for reproductive health has been published. The President of the National Health Fund stresses that according to the Law on the Pharmaceutical Profession, a pharmacist...
- We are so psychologically constructed that we attribute the right to dream to people who are healthy. We forget that people at the end of life also dream," says Mariola Kosowicz, MD, clinical psychologist and psychooncologist at the Psychooncology Outpatient Clinic at the Oncology Center in...
On Monday, May 20, the next meeting of the Transparency Council.
The Patient Ombudsman has imposed the first penalty regarding treatment of Lyme disease according to ILADS guidelines.
W związku z gwałtownym starzeniem się społeczeństwa opiekunowie seniorów będą niedługo pożądani na rynku pracy tak samo jak dziś księgowe, pracownicy budowlani, kierowcy czy specjaliści AI. W ciągu najbliższych 30 lat liczba osób powyżej 65. roku życia w Europie wzrośnie o 38 % – do 129,8 mln...
Although it has been known for 2,000 years and is more common than breast or lung cancer, it remains one of the most elusive and most common chronic autoimmune diseases with a genetic basis. Undiagnosed and untreated, it can lead to disorders of virtually every system in the body: osteoporosis,...
The government, judging from a reading of the Multiannual State Financial Plan adopted by the Council of Ministers a few days ago, does not foresee any acceleration in the growth of health care outlays, and since, as has been mentioned more than once, the growth in recent years has been quite...
Interview with Prof. Tomasz Szczepanski, president of the Polish Society of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology.
Administrative proceedings have been initiated against the Municipal Police Chief in Krakow over a violation of personal data protection involving the release of an individual's personal data in a press release, the President of the Office for Personal Data Protection informed the RPO.
Konsultantem krajowym w dziedzinie transplantologii klinicznej został specjalista chirurgii ogólnej, specjalista transplantologii klinicznej prof. Michał Grąt, kierownik Kliniki Chirurgii Ogólnej, Transplantacyjnej i Wątroby WUM. Konsultantów krajowych powołuje minister zdrowia spośród...
- Some men diagnosed with infertility fear that not only will their health be judged negatively, but that their masculinity will be called into question. This is misguided and completely unnecessary," says Dr. Luke Kupis, a urologist, andrologist, microsurgeon and male infertility specialist.
© 2023 Medexpress. All Rights Reserved
