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...
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...
Everyday life with Friedreich's ataxia is a constant struggle against limitations - both physical and mental. Every day brings new challenges and the need to adapt to the body's changing capabilities. However, there is hope - a drug that works, as Joanna Kostrzewska, who struggles with...
-A large proportion of sepsis cases actually start at home. Of course, there are also sepsis in the hospital, while such sepsis in the hospital is much easier to diagnose, which does not mean that hospital sepsis is always diagnosed in time and that we have nothing to do in this area either....
Czy w polskim systemie ochrony zdrowia brakuje pieniędzy, czy raczej pomysłu, jak je mądrze wydawać? – Jedno nie wyklucza drugiego – mówi Jakub Szulc, wiceprezes Narodowego Funduszu Zdrowia. I wskazuje, że choć nakłady na ochronę zdrowia wciąż są niższe niż w innych krajach europejskich, to i tak...
In Poland, too many women are still losing to cancer, even though they could be alive - if only they had been screened earlier. MP Katarzyna Piekarska, chairwoman of the parliamentary team for cancer prevention "Cancer Stop", talks about why prevention must become a daily habit, like brushing teeth.
May 19 marks World Family Physician Day, a holiday established by the World Organization of Family Physicians (WONCA) in 2010.
According to statistics, 80% of sepsis cases are out-of-hospital. Sepsis most often starts at home. Symptoms of sepsis can be confused with really anything. This is what Ewa Pląsek, vice president of the Urszula Jaworska Foundation, says in an interview with us, debunking myths related to sepsis.
Endometrial cancer is such a very loud and vocal cancer, because we get the most patients when it comes to gynecological cancers. However, it has been neglected and unnoticed for years, because there were no solutions for it in the development of medicine," says Anna Kupiecka president of the...
The 9th Patient Empowerment Congress is behind us. Patient Advocate Bartlomiej Chmielowiec talks about how patient priorities have changed, the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence, and the importance of collecting and analyzing data.
O roli edukacji żywieniowej, lekachachi o zdrowiu i tego, jakie błędy żywieniowe popełniają Polacy, a także gdzie można bezpłatnie skorzystać z pomocy dietetyka czy specjalisty do spraw aktywności fizycznej mówi Paula Nagel, dietetyk z Narodowego Centrum Edukacji Żywieniowej, NIZP PZH-PIB.
President Donald Trump's decision to cut drug prices in the United States has caused anxiety in pharmaceutical markets. Stocks of pharmaceutical companies are seeing declines, and experts are wondering whether European countries - including Poland - could be affected by the change. Mateusz...
Polish science has much to boast about. We have excellent inventions and discoveries, but only a handful of them end up in clinics. Why is this happening? Who is to blame? Does the scientific profession in Poland have a future? Prof. Agnieszka Dobrzyn, director of the Marceli Nencki Institute of...
A new preventive program called "My Health - an adult health balance sheet" has just been launched . It replaces the previous "Prevention 40+", but, as Dr. Michal Sutkowski points out, it differs fundamentally from it. It is no longer just about performing tests, but about real care for the...
The Promised Land - biblical for some, Reimontian for others, for family doctors this year it is - Lodz. The Association of the College of Family Physicians in Poland, is once again holding its annual congress for family physicians and primary care physicians. The 23rd Congress of Family Medicine...
Prehabilitation is the process of preparing a patient for treatment. More and more centers in Poland are implementing this model of care, recognizing its positive impact on surgical and oncological treatment outcomes. Dr. Beata Jagielska, director of the National Cancer Institute, talks about the...
We educate, we give talks - face-to-face and via social media, we share knowledge at meetings, joint outings to the outdoors and coffee chats, the members of the STOMAlife Foundation write about themselves. Marzena Kluszczynska tells us about the Foundation's new projects and volunteering.
Dr. Beata Jagielska, director of the National Cancer Institute, talks about the role of diagnostics in oncology treatment.
There is more money in the health care system than ever, yet it is still in short supply. On the one hand, growing needs, on the other, waste and inefficiency. Why are patients increasing, doctors scarce, and money... never enough? We discuss the paradoxes of health care financing and why we need...
Cardiovascular diseases are still the leading cause of death in Poland. They are responsible for nearly 35 percent of deaths, and the total cost of managing CVD is PLN 56 billion, or PLN 1,200 per capita. These are the conclusions of the report "Toward Improving Cardiovascular Health in Poland,"...
What is the average age of family doctors in Poland? Does the senior doctor better understand the needs of senior patients? And how do senior doctors cope in a digital world? We ask Dr. Michal Sutkowski of Lazarski University, president-elect of the College of Family Physicians.
- Electrodeless stimulation, which has similar efficacy to classical stimulation, gives us more protection for the patient. For one thing, we don't have electrodes, meaning we avoid the problems associated with them - damage or venous obstruction issues. On the other hand, the system, which is...
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