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...
- Patients who start treatment early have the best clinical outcomes. This is a pilot, perfect program. However, we are constantly analyzing what else can be added, what drugs are needed - said Deputy Minister of Health Maciej Miłkowski in an interview with Medexpress, summing up 3.5 years of the...
“Since there are treatments for SMA, we know we can stop this progressive disease. Her image changes. It becomes a chronic disease, not a fatal one. We are proud of it. We hope for further successes and further therapies - said Dorota Raczek, president of the SMA Foundation, in an interview with...
- The minimum plan is to stop the progression of the disease. This was achieved in all patients. Almost 90 percent of improvement was achieved, which in the progressive disease of the nervous system is completely unattainable without treatment - said in an interview with Medexpress Prof....
The Sejm on Friday evening passed the amendment to the act on the Medical Fund - without a single vote of opposition. Twelve deputies, including the Confederation, abstained. One of the main points of the amendment is the addition of a new category of services that will be able to be financed by...
The Polish Mother's Memorial Hospital - Research Institute in Łódź (ICZMP) fell victim to a cyberattack. Patients must take into account the difficulties in handling, as the clinic authorities have decided to temporarily disable IT systems. “We are conducting intensive activities that are to lead...
- There was no cure for triple-negative breast cancer for a long time and as soon as it appeared, we waited for it to be reimbursed quickly. In October we were informed that the therapy would be available in Poland - said Krystyna Wechmann, president of the Polish Coalition of Cancer Patients and...
The Ministry of Health has presented a draft reimbursement list, which is to apply from November 1. We ask Deputy Minister of Health Maciej Miłkowski and patient organizations about the priority changes that should be introduced in the reimbursement lists in the near future.
Problems with the availability of certain drugs, including some antibiotics, result from, among others, from poor prediction of the demand for them by manufacturers, as well as the tendency to use drugs in off-label indications. On Tuesday, the Ministry of Health took a position on the shortages...
- Dermatologists, rheumatologists, but most of all patients suffering from psoriatic arthritis, are waiting for interleukin 23 inhibitors to be reimbursed also in our country - said Prof. dr hab. n. med. Joanna Narbutt, National Consultant for Dermatology and Venereology.
- In addition to vaccinations against Covid-19, the option of using a cocktail of two monoclonal antibodies with prolonged action has appeared for children over 12 years of age and weighing more than 40 kg. We can give them to children, for example, before the transplantation of hematopoietic...
- Covid-19 causes a break in the treatment of the underlying disease in cancer patients. Such an infection may persist for a long time. Pre-exposure prophylaxis could help reduce the risk of Covid-19 disease, but also allow the treatment to be continued - said Prof. dr hab. n. med. Iwona Hus,...
- We are approaching the point where we can say that thanks to vaccinations and drugs, which are slowly appearing, we control the situation and the relatively large number of infections does not pose a significant burden, for example, to hospitals - said the Minister of Health in an interview...
New public campaign on vaccination against COVID-19.
Start of transmission at 9.00 a.m. We invite!
Conference website: here .
The guest of Medexpress is Kamil Dolecki - president of the SARCOMA Association for Patients with Sarcoma and Melanoma, organizer of Onkobieg.
- The operating suite at the National Institute of Oncology has returned to work - said the institute's spokesman, Mariusz Gierej. However, not all female instrumentalists returned from layoffs. The spokesman explained that some people are unable to work due to injuries or the need for...
The prosecutor's office will investigate the matter of defamation in social media of doctors belonging to the District Medical Chamber in Warsaw, informs OIL. The case took such a course after the intervention of the Medical Ombudsman.
The first batch of COVID-19 vaccines in the Omikron BA.1 variant has arrived at the warehouses of the Governmental Agency for Strategic Reserves. 450,000 doses were delivered to Poland. The next transport is scheduled for this week. Vaccines will only be used as a booster. The Ministry of Health...
- We want the National Oncology Network to start operating from January 1, 2023, said Deputy Health Minister Waldemar Kraska at the Healthcare Forum, which takes place as part of the Economic Forum in Karpacz. As part of the network, each cancer patient will receive a caregiver who will help the...
We ask Prof. Marcin Grabowski, head of the 1st Department and Clinic of Cardiology of the Medical University of Warsaw.
Start of transmission at 12.00. We invite!
Aleksandra Rudnicka, spokesman for the Sanitas association: Events such as the "Rally for Health" have a tremendous therapeutic and educational effect. Movement is a drug, but it must be properly dosed and adapted to the patient. "Rajd for Health" is an opportunity to integrate the community of...
Press conference of the Deputy Minister of Health Maciej Miłkowski on flu vaccinations in the autumn and winter season. The president of the Supreme Pharmaceutical Council, Elżbieta Piotrowska-Rutkowska, also participates in the conference.
The second "Rally for Health" could not miss the DKMS foundation, whose mission is to fight blood cancer.
We talk to prof. Grażyna Rydzewska, vice-president of the Polish Society of Gastroenterology and Marek Lichota, president of the association "Appetite for life".
Press conference on the current epidemic situation in the country and on the recommendations regarding the 4 doses of vaccination against COVID-19.
Iwona Schymalla's guest is Andrzej Kruk from In Vivo Doctrina.
Dr Barbara Czech-Szczapa, epidemiologist, Head of the Epidemiology Laboratory at the Medical University of Poznań: Poland, as a border country, is on the front line of the EU epidemiological front. Russia's armed attack on Ukraine, the difficult humanitarian situation in the areas covered by the...
We talk with Krzysztof Łanda, founder of the Watch Health Care Foundation, about access to modern methods of treating female cancers and multiple myeloma.
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