Hypothyroidism in Hashimoto's diseaseHypothyroidism is one of the most common hormonal problems in the world, and Hashimoto's disease is one of its main causes. Modern medicine offers us various treatments for hypothyroidism, including pharmacotherapy - thyroid hormones and also dietary changes....
The term was publicized by Prof. Timothy Garton Ash an observer of public life in Poland, a historian.
Kto pokieruje Ministerstwem Zdrowia w najbliższych latach? Czy zwycięstwo Koalicji Obywatelskiej oznacza powrót Bartosza Arłukowicza? A może lider ludowców widzi siebie na fotelu ministra zdrowia i wicepremiera. Dwa razy – nie. Łatwiej jest w tej chwili powiedzieć, kto – raczej na pewno – nie...
This is a particularly interesting question in the context of the approaching date of the parliamentary elections, in which no political party is declaring to overhaul the health care system by reducing the number of hospital beds.
Smoking is one of the biggest health problems in the world. This addiction not only threatens smokers, but also those in their company, as well as ...future generations. I wrote this article with the thought and hope that it should go to all smokers trying to have offspring. If you know such,...
Jeżeli coś źle funkcjonuje w ochronie zdrowia to nie można kłamać.
I put forward the thesis that vaccination of children and adolescents is an opportunity for health stability and demographic reconstruction in young, future families in Poland.
This Gram negative aerobic bacillus reproduces in water, favored by calcium and magnesium deposits and the presence of other accompanying microorganisms. At a temperature of about 40 degrees it feels like a fish in water.
At the time of the Warsaw Uprising, hematology had not yet been fully recognized as a separate medical specialty, but it was already in the minds of the people who developed it and whose talents I later rubbed should be remembered, since they are no longer alive.
On Friday, July 28, 2023. The Parliament will recognize the Quality Law, or to be more precise, it will recognize the Senate's veto, and then we will get an answer to this nagging question.
Thyroid nodules are a very common thyroid pathology, with an estimated risk of occurrence in the general population of so roughly 5% to 10%, with a much higher incidence in women, increasing in frequency with age, and in areas of greater iodine deficiency. Thanks to advances in technology and the...
I have no family references to what happened 80 years ago in Ukraine. My Parents spent the war in captivity in Germany, my closest relatives in Siberia and then in the Anders Army. But a book recently fell into my hands, "Notes from Volhynia," by Prof. Henryk Kirschner, MD, professor emeritus of...
The phenomenon of protein glycation has been known to us for more than 110 years. Already at the beginning of the 20th century, as in 1912, Louis Camille Maillard was the first researcher to describe the reaction of spontaneous bonding between amino acids and simple sugars and referred to it as...
Analyzing my own experience over the past two years, I wanted to provide you with a thorough analysis of the health benefits and potential total economic gains from the wider use of semaglutide, an innovative drug for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and obesity, in the context of the impact on...
Chronic kidney disease is easy to diagnose but leads to premature death in 95% of patients. 80,000 patients die annually. Approximately 4 - 4.5 million Polish women and men suffer from this condition in Poland. 11% of adults have already lost more than half of their active kidney parenchyma and...
What is the dimension of the ruling party's elevation of the protection of conceived life to the banner? New light is shed on an old problem by a weekend interview that Law and Justice Chairman Jaroslaw Kaczynski gave to Krzysztof Ziemc. One of the topics was the announced referendum on the...
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...
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