More than PLN 1.8 billion will be allocated in 2023 to standardize the employment of psychologists, educators, speech therapists, pedagogical therapists and special educators in mainstream schools, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced during a press conference at the School and...
“This year has started with very good news for us. This is what we have been striving for for many years. The Ministry of Health has lifted restrictions on the duration of biological therapy. Until now, patients with ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease could receive treatment for one or two...
– This year will go down in the history of Polish diabetology as a breakthrough year. Lots of good things happened. We are experiencing a revolution when it comes to the concept of treatment and access to new drugs. From May to September, the Ministry of Health made decisions extending the...
HPV is mainly associated with cervical cancer, meanwhile the virus is also responsible for head and neck cancers and for a rare but extremely troublesome disease - recurrent respiratory papillomatosis. It's a disease that patients struggle with all their lives.
We talk about the model treatment of SMA and the future of spinal muscular atrophy treatment with Prof. Katarzyna Kotulska-Jóźwiak from the Department of Neurology and Epileptology at the Children's Memorial Health Institute.
The holidays are getting closer and closer - and with them, the marketing offensive targeting the youngest is intensifying as well. Children and teens today spend long hours on social media, watching influencers, youtubers and creators who have become informal marketers of everything from toys to...
Oncology prevention begins much earlier than many of us think - as early as childhood. Of greatest importance is protection from tobacco initiation, education and the example set by those around us. - A talking professor won't change attitudes, but healthy adult habits can, says Professor Pawel...
In our conversation today, Karolina Sobocinska talks with Dr. Dorota Kosnierczak, a gynecologist and infertility treatment specialist, about the effectiveness and safety of the IVF method. The guest explains the modern process of freezing embryos, the ethical and legal issues involved in storing...
The guests of the latest episode of the podcast "It's Rare to Talk About It," dedicated to girls and women with phenylketonuria, are Prof. Maria Giżewska, specialist in pediatrics, metabolic pediatrics, provincial consultant in metabolic pediatrics for the West Pomeranian region, vice-chair of...
Press conference by Deputy Health Minister Katherine Kacperyczk on the October draft list of reimbursed drugs.
Each additional hour a child spends outdoors means a 2 percent lower risk of developing myopia," stresses Wojciech Hautz, MD, professor of IPCZD, Department of Ophthalmology, Institute "Pomnik - Children's Health Center" in Warsaw. The expert explains why this defect is developing at such a fast...
Wider access to sublingual immunotherapy in children with inhalant allergies can not only improve the health of the little ones, but also significantly ease the burden on families. As Hubert Godziątkowski points out, effective treatment means not only fewer symptoms and doctor visits, but above...
On why health education should accompany children from kindergarten, how to impart knowledge in an attractive way, and why habits formed in the first years of life stay with us forever - in an interview with Medexpress - Michal Brzezinski, MD, PhD, from the Department of Pediatrics,...
- Children with hemophilia absolutely deserve the best care, care that is in line with standards, says Dr. n. ekon. Malgorzata Galazka-Sobotka, director of the Institute for Healthcare Management at Lazarski University in Warsaw.
Iwona Schymalla's guest is Dr. Krzysztof Dyrbuś, a cardiologist from the Silesian Center for Heart Diseases in Zabrze.
Gościem Iwony Schymalli jest dr Marcin Podgórski, dyrektor Lotniczego Pogotowia Ratunkowego.
Since April, a drug has been available in Poland that gives hope to patients with early breast cancer that the disease will not return. However, not all of them do. Those with smaller tumors and no involved lymph nodes unfortunately still live in fear of relapse. Anna Kupiecka of the OnkoCafe-...
Anna Gruszczak, MD, from the Department of Neurology, National Medical Institute of the Ministry of Internal Medicine, talks about the first therapeutic breakthrough for ALS patients.
An interview with Prof. Karina Jahnz-Różyk, national consultant in allergology and head of the Department of Internal Medicine, Pneumonology, Allergology, Clinical Immunology and Rare Diseases at the Military Medical Institute in Warsaw.
- Thanks to innovative drugs, we can treat effectively with fewer visits, which means not only convenience for patients, but also real savings for the system," says Professor Robert Rejdak, head of the Department of General Ophthalmology and the Department of Ophthalmology at the Medical...
Dr. Michal Seweryn, president of EconMed Europe, talks about what a burden hemophilia is from the perspective of patients and society and the system as a whole.
Aleksandra Wilk, director of the Lung Cancer Section of the "It Cures Itself" Foundation, talks about how the subcutaneous form of drug administration affects patients' lives.
In the latest episode of the podcast "It's Rare to Talk About It," we host Anna and Paul Kamionek, parents of five-year-old Ernest, who has phenylketonuria. Our guests talk frankly about the first days after the diagnosis, the challenges of daily life with the disease, and how they fashioned a...
Professor Anna Jeznach-Steinhagen, from the Department of Clinical Dietetics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Warsaw Medical University, talks about how continuous glycemic monitoring systems have changed patients' lives.
- Restricting access to spinal cord stimulators can not only promote opioid addiction, but also exclude thousands of patients from professional and social life, says Professor Tomasz Mandat, head of the Nervous System Tumor Clinic at the National Cancer Institute.
Paweł Wójtowicz, president of the Matio Foundation - Foundation for Helping Families and Patients with Cystic Fibrosis, talks about how cystic fibrosis is treated in Poland.
The subcutaneous drug is administered in seconds once every two weeks. Lives change, parents return to work, children forget about the disease, they say they have regained their lives anew," says Ewelina Matuszak, president of the Sanguis Foundation - Hemophilia and Related Hemorrhagic Diathesis,...
We are no longer in doubt today. The sooner we incorporate modern treatment, the higher the clinical, economic and social benefits are for a given system," says Dr. n. ekon. Malgorzata Galazka-Sobotka, director of the Institute for Healthcare Management at Lazarski University in Warsaw.
To treat it well, you need to diagnose the disease and know a lot about it, you need to learn it. The Polish Society for the Treatment of Obesity has developed certain standards on how to approach this disease," explains Dr. Agnieszka Gorgoń-Komor, senator of the Republic of Poland.
Multiple sclerosis affects young people. These diagnoses come when people are actually starting their social life, family life, career. So it is extremely important that we offer therapies that fit their lifestyle," says Malina Wieczorek, president of SM Walcz o Siebie.
Although epilepsy affects hundreds of thousands of people in Poland, the public's knowledge of the disease is still surprisingly low. We talk to Alicja Lisowska - president of the EPI-BOHATER Foundation - about dangerous myths that can threaten health and life, and about simple but effective ways...
"The My Health prevention program should be mandatory," said MP Norbert Pietrykowski in an interview with Medexpress during the Patient Empowerment Congress.
The risk of recurrence in early breast cancer is high. Despite good reimbursement decisions, there is still a group of patients with an unmet health need. - It is a huge achievement to be able to predict and secure the risk of recurrence earlier. We are counting on reimbursements that will...
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