Europe's population is shrinking steadily and steadily. The percentage of Europeans in relation to the world population is declining and, it is predicted, in 2070 it will be about 4 percent, compared to 6 percent today. Poland is, unfortunately, no exception in this regard. According to the...
An acquaintance (incidentally, a former deputy minister of health) once told me a story from his postgraduate internship in obstetrics. Lo and behold, the orderly telephoned him and invited him to the delivery room: "come on Sir, a unique case, an old primary, 28 years old!". As we know, there...
Until a few years ago, it seemed that we were slowly winning the war against the public's addiction to smoking, or more precisely, to inhaling the nicotine (and, incidentally, tarry bodies) contained in the smoke. Even the incidence of lung cancer has begun to decline. But about this came a new...
The latest online edition of the journal Neurochemical research published an article titled: "Acute Low Dose Naltrexone Increases β-Endorphin and Promotes Neuronal Recovery Following Hypoxia-Ischemic Stroke in Type-2 Diabetic Mice." The article shows that low-dose naltrexone therapy (LDN therapy)...
Insulin resistance occurs when our body's cells become less sensitive to insulin, the most important hormone that regulates blood glucose levels. Long-term insulin resistance can lead to chronic hyperglycemia, or blood sugar levels that are too high, resulting in the development of type 2...
Fibromyalgia is a disease that is characterized by chronic pain in the muscles and soft tissues. Its symptoms also include fatigue and muscle stiffness. This disease occurs primarily in middle-aged women, and its causes are still not fully understood. In Poland, fibromyalgia is diagnosed based on...
Brain fog is a common experience faced by a not inconsiderable number of people recovering from COVID-19. Symptoms of brain fog usually include impaired concentration, sometimes disorientation of greater or lesser severity, fuzzy thoughts, forgetting, losing and forgetting words, and mental fatigue.
A few years ago, a friend invited me to visit the famous Karolinska Institutet Hospital in Stockholm (that's the one where the Nobel Prize is awarded). The Swedish hospital was by then much more computerized than the Polish hospital where I work, but the experience was instructive. Well, just at...
Important changes are taking place in clinical research to make studies conducted in the EU more attractive. Of utmost importance is the launch of the new Clinical Trails Information System platform.
Representatives of the pharmaceutical industry have long been diligently (and with great concern) following the fate of the draft of a major amendment to the Law on Reimbursement of Medicines, Foodstuffs for Special Dietary Purposes and Medical Devices. The legislative process for this...
Na rynku wyrobów medycznych zachodzą dynamiczne zmiany. W maju 2023 r. wejdą nowe obowiązki dotyczące opakowań wyrobów medycznych.
Dr. Katarzyna Kęcka, chairman of the board of directors of Szpitalne Centrum Medyczne in Goleniów sp. z o.o., Polish Federation of Hospitals.
As of January 1, 2023, new rules for the advertising of medical products apply. I invite you to a series of publications on this topic.
The radio station, which probably considers itself the most progressive, has published a documentary series that stigmatizes medical experiments, although there is also a caveat in the "small print" that not all of them are still being performed in accordance with what the author of the series...
In the previous flu season, only from January 12, 2022, pharmacies could apply for participation in the National Influenza Vaccination Program (NPS). Joining the NPS only in mid-January did not make much sense. The results confirmed it. Only about 8,500 vaccinations were performed in pharmacies,...
On January 3, 2023, in the program "Kwadrans Polityczny" on TVP1, Deputy Minister of Health Waldemar Kraska said, among other things, that "at the next session of the Sejm, next week, we want to submit an amendment so that the pharmacist can also issue us this prescription. So we enter the...
In an interview with "Rzeczpospolita", the Minister of Health, Adam Niedzielski, said that "pharmacists are not authorized to issue prescriptions for vaccinations and we want to change it as soon as possible, but for this we need a statutory change. We want to look at it and discuss it together...
The President of the District Pharmacy Council in Warsaw stated that "combined tests for COVID-19, influenza and RSV are a classic example of the possibility of using the potential of pharmacists employed in pharmacies, the implementation of this service in the pharmacy will relieve the health...
The use of a medicinal product in the off-label procedure is a biomedical experiment. Change in the therapeutic procedure in terms of indications for use, dosage, route of administration without further specification: 1/contraindications, 2/special warnings and precautions, 3/interactions with...
Recently, we were reminded by doctors that our profession is also a mission. Basically, a mission to save people. And it was contrasted with the pursuit of making money. Well, there is no such contradiction. A doctor with a "mission" cannot just walk into any hospital and help the sick free of...
On December 7, 2022, the following announcement was issued: "The Wielkopolska Voivodship Pharmaceutical Inspector reminds you of the obligation to serialize medicinal products when accepting them at the pharmacy and when dispensing them to the patient. A medicinal product that does not undergo...
For some time, the Minister of Health and the Prime Minister, as well as some other representatives of the government, have been boasting in the media that the current government has greatly improved the situation of public health care. This is evidenced by greater than ever before - and still...
Do not waste the potential of human mind and heart. Don't waste money. Be economical. Not to get into group quarrels and quarrels that do not lead to progress in healthcare. Not to promote false medical technologies or miracles of youth, wealth and eternal health. Do not wag lovelessly "tails" of...
I read recently that a son saved his father's life in Kiev. No, not in the midst of hostilities, but as a bone marrow donor. My father developed severe aplastic anemia (a disease in which the marrow does not produce blood cells). It is a potentially fatal disease that is treated with bone marrow...
I am a graduate of the Military Medical Academy in Łódź, a university that ceased to exist. However, I will not write about how it was liquidated, but about how it was created.
The minister of health signed an advance purchase agreement for 200 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines for PLN 10 billion. To date, 56.7 million doses have been administered. Currently, there are 25 million doses in the Governmental Agency for Strategic Reserves. For comparison, the UK Health...
On September 20, 2022, the article "Bez żartów" written by mgr farm was published in the Pharmacy Magazine. Marek Tomków. Excerpt: "Six Minutes. This was the length of the training course where pharmacists learned how to take swabs from COVID-19 patients. Half of it was spent watching an...
I was recently among the winners of the Ig Nobel Prize awarded at Harvard University, awards for research papers that first make you laugh and then make you think . The work was invented and performed by my younger colleagues, and my role was mainly boiled down to the fact that when they came to...
On the initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO), World Patient Safety Day is held on September 17 each year. This year's theme is drug safety: "World Patient Safety Day: medication safety, medication without harm". WHO encourages healthcare professionals and patients to take action to...
The act on the profession of pharmacist contains the following provision: "The pursuit of the profession of pharmacist is aimed at protecting patient's health and protecting public health, and consists in providing pharmaceutical care". One of the elements of pharmaceutical care is performing...
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