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...
An interview with Prof. Jack Grzybowski, head of the Cardiomyopathy Unit at the National Institute of Cardiology.
Obowiązujące od stycznia br. rozporządzenie ministra zdrowia w sprawie wykazu wyrobów medycznych wydawanych na receptę istotnie zmieniło dotychczasowe zasady refundacji dot. systemów ciągłego monitorowania glikemii. Nową grupą objętą refundacją, uwzględnioną w dokumencie, są dorośli diabetycy,...
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that bird flu infection has been detected in more than twenty-five cats in Poland, but there is no information on human cases. The agency reports that such risks are low.
First reading of the government draft law on amending the law on health care services financed from public funds and the law on reimbursement of medicines, foodstuffs for special nutritional purposes and medical devices (print No. 3478) - substantiated by the Minister of Health.Consideration and...
Consideration of information on occupational therapy in the improvement of the elderly and in the care of seniors, taking into account the urban and rural division - Ref: Minister of Family and Social Policy and Minister of Health.
Programs to reduce access to cigarettes in Poland; what tools are effective and what solutions are used by European countries - continuation of discussion.
We should expand preventive measures and increase the detection of chronic kidney disease throughout society, argues Prof. Beata Naumnik, head of the 1st Clinic of Nephrology and Transplantation with Dialysis Center, Medical University of Bialystok.
Should obese people have the same "moral right" to Ozempic as diabetics? Is such weight loss safe? And what about the yo-yo effect? When can taking this drug lead to divorce and its prescription interest inspectors from the National Health Service? The answers are provided by the guest of the...
The first reading of the parliamentary bill to amend the Law on Public Health, substantiates MP Kamil Bortniczuk.
Consideration of the government's document "National Oncology Strategy - 2022 Report". - is presented by the Minister of Health.
Consideration of information on new therapeutic technologies in mental health care - status, needs and projects - presented by the Minister of Health.
To give an opinion on the draft financial plan of the National Health Fund for 2024.
Consideration of the government bill to amend the Law on Reimbursement of Medicines, Foodstuffs for Special Dietary Purposes and Medical Devices and Certain Other Laws, together with an auto-amendment (prints Nos. 3408 and 3408-A) - continued.
Interview with Deputy Minister of Health Maciej Miłkowski
Interview with Prof. Agata Szulc, head of the Psychiatric Clinic at the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Medical University of Warsaw.
Where will the money come from to include flosins in the list of free drugs for seniors? We asked Dr. Jaroslaw Frąckowiak, president of PEX PharmaSequence, about this.
- We were able to identify ten doctors who issued between 100,000 and 400,000 prescriptions over the course of a year, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said at a press conference on Friday, and announced that a report had been filed with the prosecutor's office in this regard. In his opinion, the...
An interview with Professor Marcin Wojnar, head of the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical University of Warsaw.
- In more than half of the cases, the amniotic fluid drains due to the bacterial threat of various strains, many of which are highly malignant. The infection can therefore have a fulminant course. It's a condition in which a woman can even die within minutes," said Professor Piotr Sieroszewski,...
We ask Christopher Kope, president of National Drug Manufacturers, about the impact of biological drugs on medical progress.
An interview with Prof. Piotr Galecki, national consultant in psychiatry.
Congenital hypophosphatasia is an ultra-rare inborn metabolic defect that is caused by a deficiency in the activity of an important enzyme, alkaline phosphatase, says Jolanta Sykut-Cegielska, MD, IMiD professor, head of the Department of Inborn Metabolic Defects and Pediatrics at the Mother and...
Interview with Andrzej Tysarowski, MD, head of the Department of Genetic and Molecular Cancer Diagnostics at the National Cancer Institute in Warsaw, coordinator of genetic diagnostic guidelines within the National Cancer Strategy.
Interview with Prof. Tomasz Wróble, head of the Department of Hematology, Blood Tumors and Bone Marrow Transplantation of the Faculty of Postgraduate Medical Education of the Piast of Silesia Medical University in Wroclaw.
The vacations are a sensitive period during which the rate of mental disorders increases. Why? We asked Dr. Piotr Wierzbinski, MD, a member of the Polish Psychiatric Association and the International Society of Sports Psychiatry, to explain this phenomenon.
During the Health Summit 2023, we talked about this with Anna Sliwinska, president of the Polish Diabetes Association.
Interview with Prof. Zbigniew Żuber, head of the Department of Pediatrics at the Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow Academy, chairman of the Expert Council on Rare Diseases of the Medical Council of State.
A conversation with Prof. Przemysław Mitkowski, president of the Polish Society of Cardiology.
COPD is a multifaceted problem that requires a holistic approach. Therefore, among the lecturers at this year's COPD Academy, in addition to pulmonologists, were cardiologists, radiologists and psychiatrists. The organizers' goal is to highlight the complexity of the clinical situation, while at...
A conversation with Professor Dariusz Jurkiewicz, head of the Department of Otolaryngology and Laryngological Oncology with the Clinical Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery at the Military Medical Institute in Warsaw.
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