Medexpress message summary - 09/15/2022

The Minister of Health, Adam Niedzielski, will announce today information on the commencement of general vaccination against Covid-19 with a second booster dose. Details will be provided at the press conference at 11:00 at the Ministry of Health. The conference will also be attended by the President of the Office of Medicinal Products Regulation, Grzegorz Cessak.

Every third physician in Poland suffers from depression or anxiety. Many of them deal with burnout. Often they do not want to talk about their problems, which only makes the situation worse. A study conducted on oncologists shows that almost 66 percent. of them had a subjective sense of burnout. 75 percent of the respondents met the criteria of occupational burnout, based on, inter alia, on WHO recommendations. More than one third of the doctors participating in the study sought psychological support, but only 18.5% of them had access to such assistance at the workplace. Yesterday was the Day of Combating Burnout. We write more about this problem on Medexpress.pl

Today we celebrate the European Prostate Day. For many years, prostate cancer has been leading the ranking of the most common neoplasms in men. Although access to innovative therapies to lower mortality rates in Poland has improved, the current biggest problem is the lack of early use of modern hormonal drugs in disseminated, castration-sensitive prostate cancer. - Thanks to these drugs, patients with metastatic disease live for many years and in good quality - says Dr. Iwona Skoneczna, oncologist at the Grochowski Hospital. Rafał Masztak and the National Institute of Oncology. Maria Skłodowskiej-Curie in Warsaw. As he emphasizes, there is a need to modify drug programs.

- We have already contracted over PLN 2 billion for the development of Polish biotechnology and clinical trials. So we fulfilled the role that was placed in us. 50,000 patients participate in our research. And this means that 50,000 people have a chance for a longer, better life or a life in general - says in an interview for Medexpress.pl the president of the Medical Research Agency, Dr. hab. n. med. Radosław Sierpiński. The interview can be read and watched in its entirety HERE.