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...
Hospitalizacja u pacjentów w wieku senioralnym bardzo często wiąże się z pogorszeniem stanu odżywienia, co może prowadzić do zespołu kruchości, wydłużenia leczenia i gorszych rokowań po wypisie. O tym, czym jest żywienie kliniczne, jaką rolę odgrywa w poprawie jakości życia pacjentów oraz jakie...
An aging population is forcing significant changes in the way health care is financed. As Marek Augustyn, vice president of the National Health Fund, points out, there is an increasing emphasis on prevention, community care and activities that allow seniors to stay healthy for as long as possible...
Poland today faces an unprecedented demographic crisis, the effects of which are increasingly felt by the health care system. An aging population, multi-morbidity, an epidemic of obesity and diabetes, and a dramatically low birth rate require urgent, systemic decisions. During the Third Senior...
The expansion of the pilot treatment of the diabetic foot, important reimbursement decisions and rapid drug development make the past year one of the most groundbreaking in diabetology. However, Prof. Leszek Czupryniak stresses that without systemic changes, the potential of these therapies will...
Extensive diagnostic and therapeutic support, creation of registries of procedures and comprehensive care - these are key recommendations of the Interdisciplinary Expert Committee of the Polish Society for Reproductive Medicine and Embryology. An interview with Prof. Rafal Kurzawa also shows that...
Although the war in Ukraine is now in its third year, humanitarian and social needs are not diminishing. At the same time, health crises also affect those who receive daily treatment in Polish hospitals. Marek Orzechowski, president of the Totalizator Sportowy Foundation, talks about what long-...
Diabetology has become one of the fastest growing fields of medicine in recent years, and Polish patients - at least in theory - have access to most modern therapies almost at the same time as other countries. Prof. Leszek Czupryniak, head of the Department of Diabetology and Internal Diseases at...
Drug security is becoming one of the most important elements of a country's resilience to crises, including armed conflict. During the conference "HEALTH SYSTEM IN WAR TIME. HOW TO USE UKRAINIAN EXPERIENCE?" experts stressed that without a stable supply of medicines, even the best-prepared health...
The increase in mental health disorders among children and adolescents requires consistent state action, says Deputy Education Minister Paulina Piechna-Więckiewicz. In an interview with Medexpress.pl, she stresses that the Ministry of Education is focusing on prevention, innovative support...
President Karol Nawrocki has signed an amendment to the Medical Fund Act. We asked NFZ Vice President Jakub Szulc for comment.
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...
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