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Drugs and medical technology

Piotr Kuna

Prof. Piotr Kuna: Polish patients with rare eosinophilic diseases deserve a higher level of medicine

An interview with Prof. Piotr Kuna of the Medical University of Lodz.

May 16, 2024
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Access to innovative therapies: It's bad, but it hasn't been this good before

Access to innovative therapies and diagnostic solutions in Poland improved again last year, mainly due to oncology drugs and those used for rare diseases. The least progress is in chronic diseases, although clinicians stress that there has been tremendous progress in this area as well in recent...

May 16, 2024
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Day-after pill: There will be no penalty

The Announcement of the President of the National Health Fund on the implementation of the pilot program on pharmacist services for reproductive health has been published. The President of the National Health Fund stresses that according to the Law on the Pharmaceutical Profession, a pharmacist...

May 15, 2024
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AOTMiT: Transparency Council on asthma and infertility treatment, among others

On Monday, May 20, the next meeting of the Transparency Council.

May 15, 2024
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Prof. Tomasz Szczepanski on hemophilia: We have reached a certain level of quality of life, but we are still a little short of talking about normal life

Interview with Prof. Tomasz Szczepanski, president of the Polish Society of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology.

May 13, 2024
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AOTMiT: Transparency Council will evaluate local government programs, drugs and benefits

On Monday, May 13, the next meeting of the Transparency Council.

May 9, 2024
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Prescriptions: Health ministry amends regulations to solve dosage problem

The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health Amending the Regulation on Prescriptions has been submitted for consultation.

May 6, 2024
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NRA: pill for minors only with consent of parent or guardian

There is the Health Minister's regulation on the pilot program on emergency contraception, and there is the position of the pharmacists' self-government. Identical to that of the consultation: The Supreme Pharmaceutical Council on Tuesday, April 30, confirmed that for minors applying for the...

May 1, 2024
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Drugs without RDTLs. There's a new list

The Health Ministry has published an announcement on medicinal products not subject to funding under the emergency procedure for access to drug technologies.

April 30, 2024
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Change in regulations for prescription medical devices

The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health amending the Regulation on the list of medical devices issued on prescription has been submitted for consultation.

April 29, 2024
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Prescription drugs: Nabbed in packaging. NFZ intervenes

Regulation of the prescription drug market was a necessity. It came to such absurd situations there that the National Health Fund had to pay up to 200 thousand zlotys for an ointment prepared in a pharmacy. However, the market does not like a vacuum, and you can already see another way to charge...

April 29, 2024
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AOTMiT: The Transparency Council will evaluate drugs and health programs

On Monday, May 6, the next meeting of the Transparency Council.

April 29, 2024
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National Drug Manufacturers postulate in Brussels that Poland should be on the EU's critical drug production map

The National Drug Manufacturers attended the first meeting of the EU Critical Medicines Alliance (April 25), which is designed to assist the European Commission in preventing drug shortages. The basis of its activities is the EU list of critical medicines.

April 25, 2024
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Hematology: priorities according to Prof. Ewa Lech-Marańda

Professor Ewa Lech-Marańda, national consultant in hematology, talks about priorities in hematology and the piloting of the National Hematology Network.

April 25, 2024
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Recover voice after laryngectomy

April 23 is Laryngectomy Day - a celebration of people who have had to undergo surgery to completely remove their larynx. This is a life-saving procedure, performed in advanced stages of cancer when other treatments have failed. After a laryngectomy, patients breathe through an opening in the...

April 23, 2024
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Clinical trials give patients access to innovative treatments. It doesn't always have to be a last resort

Clinical trials are less and less talked about anymore as the last possible therapy to be implemented or a medical experiment. In fact, it is through them that patients gain access to innovative treatments, not only in the last, but also in the first lines of treatment. The development of the...

April 18, 2024
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RPO: List of concerns regarding the draft regulation on the so-called "morning-after pill

The Ombudsman has submitted comments to Minister Izabela Leszczyna on a draft regulation on the so-called "morning-after pill," providing for a pilot that would allow pharmacists to issue a pharmaceutical prescription for emergency contraception if it is justified by a patient's health condition...

April 18, 2024
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RPO asks about list of critical drugs and plans to build drug safety in Poland

The Ombudsman draws attention to the need to build drug security, including strengthening drug production in the country and publishing a list of critical medicines. Marcin Wiącek has addressed Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna and Development and Technology Minister Krzysztof Hetman on the issue.

April 17, 2024
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AOTMiT: Transparency Council will evaluate drugs for AD, AS and melanoma, among others

April 22 next meeting of the Transparency Council.

April 16, 2024
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AOTMiT: Transparency Council to evaluate drugs for drug-resistant epilepsy and melanoma, among others

On Monday, April 15, the next meeting of the Transparency Council.

April 12, 2024
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World Parkinson's Disease Day

New research, new hopes

Currently, there is no effective therapy that offers a chance to cure Parkinson's disease. Despite an in-depth understanding of its pathomechanisms, its exact cause is unknown. Existing treatments make patients more comfortable, but do not prevent systematic neurodegradation of the brain.

April 10, 2024
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These drugs may soon be in short supply. There's a new list of drugs at risk of unavailability

A Notice of the Minister of Health dated April 8, 2024 on the list of medicinal products, foodstuffs for special nutritional purposes and medical devices at risk of unavailability on the territory of the Republic of Poland has been published in the Official Journal of the Ministry of Health.The...

April 9, 2024
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Modern anesthesiology: safety and efficacy

Prof. Lukasz Krzych, head of the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Prof. K. Gibinski University Clinical Center of the Silesian Medical University in Katowice, tells us about modern anesthesiology.

April 9, 2024
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In an aging society, the role of the anesthesiologist is gaining importance

Prof. Janusz Andres, head of the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Jagiellonian University, president of the Polish Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, initiator of the "Safe Patient" campaign, talks about the differences between anesthesia and sedation and new drugs in...

April 9, 2024
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Piloting the morning-after pill. There is a draft regulation

A health minister's regulation is set to take effect on May 1, which calls for emergency contraception to be available to people over the age of 15, after a pharmacist has interviewed and issued a prescription. The draft has been sent for public consultation, which will last two weeks.

April 4, 2024
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AOTMiT: The Transparency Council will look into influenza and HPV prevention, among other issues.

On Monday, April 8, the next meeting of the Transparency Council.

April 4, 2024
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Reimbursement of seven new cancer therapies. Experts at the National Cancer Institute comment on the changes to the list

As of April 1, 2024, oncology patients will have access to 7 new reimbursable therapies. This is important news for patients with melanoma, cervical and ovarian cancer, as well as gastrointestinal and hematological cancers, among others.

April 2, 2024
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President's veto on "morning-after pill"

President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda, on the basis of Article 122(5) of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland, has decided to refer the amendment to the Pharmaceutical Law to the Sejm of the Republic of Poland with a request for reconsideration of the law.

April 2, 2024
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Deep brain stimulation: In Poland as in the Wild West

Prof. Jaroslaw Slawek, head of the neurology and stroke unit at St. Adalbert Hospital in Gdansk, talks about deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease.

April 2, 2024
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Teva Pharmaceuticals Poland will have a new CEO

Teva Pharmaceuticals Poland will have a new CEO - Ewa Królikowska, previously commercial director of RX and vice president of distribution, will take over the position in April 2024. She will lead the commercial team of the company, which is a global leader in the pharmaceutical market and one of...

March 28, 2024