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...
Medexpress: For years, you have been very dedicated to treating patients with rare diseases. You see how patients' needs are changing with the development of medicine. What does this look like for those affected by hypophosphatasia? How is the picture of their treatment changing?Prof. Zbigniew...
Press briefing by Health Minister Katarzyna Sójka and Deputy Minister Marcin Martyniak on the transfer of funds from the Medical Fund for the expansion of Warsaw hospitals.
Professor Malgorzata Mysliwiec, head of the Department of Pediatrics, Diabetology and Endocrinology at the Medical University of Gdansk, talks about the role of early diagnosis of familial hypercholesterolemia, the problems of detecting the disease and how we can easily remedy it.
Interview with Aleksandra Lewandowska, MD, national consultant in child and adolescent psychiatry, at the Economic Forum in Karpacz.
Interview with Prof. Barbara Radecka, head of the Department of Oncology at the Prof. Tadeusz Koszarowski Oncology Center in Opole and Opole University.
Interview with Prof. Renata Langfort, head of the Department of Pathomorphology at the Tuberculosis and Pulmonary Diseases Institute in Warsaw, president of the board of directors of the Polish Society of Pathologists.
An interview with Dr. Anna Lusakowska of the Department of Neurology at the Medical University of Warsaw, coordinator of the Polish SMA Patient Registry.
Interview with Prof. Wojciech Hanke, Chairman of the Presidium of the Public Health Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, conducted during the conference of the Public Health Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences "Polish Health 2.0. Strategic Recommendations for 2023-2027".
Interview with Senator Stanislaw Karczewski of Law and Justice, conducted during the conference of the Public Health Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences "Polish Health 2.0. Strategic Recommendations for 2023-2027".
Interview with Prof. Jaroslaw Pinkas, director of the CMKP School of Public Health, member of the Public Health Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, conducted during the conference of the Public Health Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences "Polish Health 2.0. Strategic...
- We managed to obtain several new reimbursements, including for phlogazines, liberalize the program for the treatment of lipid disorders, but also launch the pilot of the National Cardiac Network, expanded this year to include six more regions - according to Prof. Przemysław Mitkowski, president...
- We were the forerunners of salary increases for other groups of medical and non-medical professions, and we have become, in a way, victims and hostages of these increases," said Mariola Lodzinska, president of the Supreme Chamber of Nurses and Midwives, in an interview with Medexpress during...
- Rare diseases are specific and, as a result, the solutions that are used to care for patients also need to be adapted to these specifics," Stanislaw Maćkowiak, president of the Federation of Polish Patients, told Medexpress during the Economic Forum in Karpacz.
- A medical professional must have the ability to filter out valuable knowledge that arises in the course of scientific research conducted in accordance with all the rules from what is pseudo knowledge," said the rector of the Medical University of Gdansk, Prof. Marcin Gruchała, chairman of the...
Dr. Marek Tombarkiewicz, director of the National Institute of Geriatrics, Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, talked about the law on special geriatric care signed by Polish President Andrzej Duda a few days ago during the Economic Forum in Karpacz.
We spoke with Deputy Health Minister Maciej Miłkowski during the Economic Forum in Karpacz about the changes introduced in the treatment of rare diseases by the September list of reimbursed drugs, the work related to the November list, and the needs of patients with neurofibromatosis.
Pharmacists want active inclusion in the health care system. To what extent and on what terms, says the president of the Supreme Pharmaceutical Council Elżbieta Piotrowska-Rutkowska.
Secretary of State at the Ministry of Health Waldemar Kraska talks about the summary of the ending term and challenges in health care.
What are the causes of diabetes and can it be cured? These are just some of the questions we asked Warsaw residents. How did they cope?
In an interview with Iwona Schymalla, Andrzej Gawrecki, MD, diabetologist, Medical University of Poznan, F. Raszei City Hospital in Poznan, talks about the role of exercise, diabetes education and modern treatment.
Interview with Przemyslaw Marszalek, secretary of the MukoKoalition, conducted during the 1st Children and Adolescent Health Congress.
An interview with Professor Anna Kostera-Pruszczyk, head of the Department of Neurology at Warsaw Medical University's UCK WUM Central Teaching Hospital, ERN EURO NMD.
Interview with Professor Teresa Jackowska, president of the Polish Pediatric Society, conducted during the Congress on Child and Adolescent Health
Interview with Prof. Gertruda Uścińska, president of the Social Insurance Institution, conducted during the Children and Youth Health Congress.
The mental health of children and adolescents is one of the priorities of the Ministry of Health and the government (...) Without resources, without a lot of money, this reform could not be carried out," says MZ Secretary of State Waldemar Kraska.
If we don't globally change our policy of antibiotic use in humans and animals, more people will die from bacterial infections in 2050 than from cancer today. Dr. Monika Wanke-Rytt, a pediatrician at Warsaw Medical University, explains what the advantage of bacteria over humans is and why.
- Investing in the younger generation is an investment that will pay us back in a few years. Building good eating habits and showing that we can control diseases of civilization is a great idea. We need to work together in this field and not create barriers," said MP Barbara Dziuk of the Law and...
With Professor Jolanta Sykut-Ciegielska, we talk about Hypophosphatasia and LAL-D, or Lysosomal Acid Lipase Deficiency. Despite their rarity, these diseases are extremely important for medical and public awareness, as there are still many mysteries surrounding their diagnosis and treatment.
Why is it cheaper to amputate a leg than treat it, and why is obesity more expensive than diabetes? How to reduce the waiting time to see a specialist by several hundred days, and how much does it cost? And finally: what do doctors feed their vocation? These questions, among others, were answered...
An interview with Prof. Jack Grzybowski, head of the Cardiomyopathy Unit at the National Institute of Cardiology.
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