In the Department of General and Transplant Surgery at the Infant Jesus Clinical Hospital UCK WUM, on March 23, 2023, a team led by Professor Wojciech Lisik performed the first documented laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in a liver transplant patient in Poland.
The procedure was carried out at the Department of General, Transplantation and Liver Surgery at the Medical University of Warsaw. The clinic, headed by Professor Michał Grąta, is the only center in Poland where liver fragments are harvested from living donors. Now, for the first time, a liver...
Scientists from Poland and Canada have discovered a new gene whose mutations cause a high risk of breast cancer! The international team of researchers was led by Cezary Cybulski, a geneticist from the Department of Genetics and Pathomorphology at Pomeranian Medical University, and Mohammad Akbari...
- Atezolizumab contributes to prolonging disease-free time. The efficacy of this treatment was significantly associated with an assessment of the expression of the receptor for programmed death, PD-L1. The immunotherapy trial found that patients responded better the higher the expression, Dr....
Dr. Christine Greer of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Boca Raton, Florida, says that by analyzing the optic nerve and retina, it is possible to obtain detailed information about the normalities and abnormalities of our nervous system. This includes a diagnosis for Alzheimer's...
The prevalence of asthma in Polish patients is steadily increasing, and we can meet the need for adequate monitoring of the disease in primary care centers. However, there is still a great need for more precise asthma control measures.
To date, the only known consequence of Covid-19 infection in children has been PIMS, an acute and potentially dangerous generalized inflammatory syndrome caused by immune dysregulation that can lead to cardiac complications. Symptoms in the form of primarily high fever, signs of damage to at...
We discuss the new recommendations of the European Society of Clinical Oncology on the management of venous thromboembolism in oncology patients with Prof. Lucjan Wyrwicz of the Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy at the National Cancer Institute, National Research Institute in Warsaw.
This is a chance for quick diagnosis for millions of patients. Scientists from the Department of Histology and Embryology of the Medical University of Warsaw have developed a test that can detect endometriosis. The result appears after a few days. Currently, the road to diagnosis takes several...
The Parliamentary Health Committee issued a positive opinion on the draft act on clinical trials. Amendments have been included in it, thanks to which nurses and midwives will be able to e.g. act as the principal investigator.
Glomerulonephritis (Glomerulonephritis) is a rare and ultra-rare disease that can lead to kidney failure. The only way to diagnose the disease is a biopsy. Researchers want to prevent complications of the procedure in order to be able to diagnose kidney diseases earlier.
Dissemination of influenza vaccination, isolation of people showing signs of infection and special protection against infection of people from risk groups. Among others, such recommendations were issued by the Council of Experts of the Supreme Medical Chamber in connection with the season of...
APRIL On April 1, the implementation of the pilot drug reviews began. The pilot project provides for three contacts between the pharmacist and the patient, the effect of which is to develop an individual plan of pharmaceutical care for the patient and a plan to solve all detected real or...
Cardiologists from the Silesian Center for Heart Diseases in Zabrze implanted a electrodeless pacemaker in a patient with an extremely rare heart defect for the first time in Poland.
- In women with selenium deficiency, which in Poland constitute one third of the general female population, supplementation of this element allows for a tenfold reduction in mortality, regardless of the cause - said in an interview for TVP3 Szczecin, Prof. Jan Lubiński, head of the Department of...
– At the congress in San Antonio, the results of research in HER2 positive breast cancer were presented. They confirmed the role of trastuzumab derukstecan in the treatment. It has been shown that it extends the overall survival time in patients who received this drug in the treatment of...
With Anna Charko - co-founder of the People and Medicine Foundation - we talk about the need to take care of mental health hygiene and the benefits of psychological support during the treatment of a chronic disease.
The guest of Medexpress is prof. Krzysztof Tomasiewicz, President of the Polish Group of HCV Experts, Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases SPSK No. 1 in Lublin.
– We are introducing several loyalty solutions. The first was related to residency, the second to a student loan, which can be written off if you work for about 10 years in the public health care system - said Health Minister Adam Niedzielski in an interview with RMF, referring to the words of...
The 15th Scientific Conference of the Prevention and Epidemiology Section of the Polish Cardiac Society "Preventive Cardiology 2022 - guidelines, doubts, hot topics" is the largest and most interesting conference in Poland on the prevention of heart and vascular diseases.
How does a man feel when he is 70 years old or older? If you're not a senior, it's hard to imagine. Unless ... an old age simulator is worn. Contrary to popular belief, using it is not pleasant. It's an experience that literally changes everything. Students of the Medical University of Silesia in...
Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin received phantoms for teaching enteral nutrition. They will be used by students of nursing, dietetics and clinical dietetics and obstetrics, as well as pharmacy and medicine. The equipment donated by the Nutricia Foundation will go to the Medical...
The level of physical activity of Polish children is dramatically low, according to research under the fourth edition of the international project "Active Healthy Kids". The "report on the state of physical activity of children and adolescents in Poland" was published.
The first in Poland treatment of kidney stones in an adult using the Avicenna robotic system was carried out at the Urology Clinic of the Medical University of Warsaw, the Infant Jesus Clinical Hospital, UCK, Medical University of Warsaw.
Hospital of dr. Antoni Jurasz in Bydgoszcz, Poland is the second in Poland to start a program of conductive and mixed hearing loss treatment using an innovative active bone implant. It is one of the most modern medical solutions in the treatment of hearing disorders.
The most modern clinical trial center in Europe has been opened at Gładka Street in Warsaw. At this point, patients can receive treatment using innovative therapeutic options that could be reimbursed even in a few years. The opening of the new headquarters of the clinical research unit, which has...
Polish researchers, together with scientists from Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands, assessed the impact of screening colonoscopy on the reduction of incidence and death from colorectal cancer. The New England Journal of Medicine published the results of the NORDICC study conducted in 4...
At least half a million cancer patients in Poland struggle with limb lymphoedema. The most common cause of this disease is damage to the lymphatic system in the treatment of neoplastic diseases (as a result of surgery to remove lymph nodes) and radiotherapy. The swelling can lead to disability...
Lecanemab is expected to work in Alzheimer's disease by reducing the build-up of sticky plaques known as beta amyloid in the brain. This is one of the likely causes of the development of this disease. Research conducted on a group of almost 1.8 thousand patients with early-stage Alzheimer's...
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