The Ministry of Health published data for the period from 29/09/2022 to 05/10/2022: We have 20,072 (including 3,981 reinfections) confirmed cases of coronavirus infection from provinces: Mazowieckie (2878), Silesian (2464), Greater Poland (1743), of Lublin (1559), of Lesser Poland (1556), Lower...
A large proportion of nurses have received increases lower than their qualifications, and the criteria for allocating funds for the implementation of the act on minimum wages for hospitals remain a mystery - according to the discussion that took place on Tuesday at the Senate Health Committee....
A large proportion of nurses have received raises lower than indicated by their qualifications, and the criteria for allocating funds for the implementation of the act on minimum wages for hospitals remain a secret - according to the discussion that took place on Tuesday at the Senate Health...
Hacker attacks on healthcare facilities are on the rise, experts in the field of cybersecurity alarm. Criminals demand ransom and threaten to make intercepted data about patients public. This, in turn, could trigger an avalanche of damages.
Lecanemab is expected to work in Alzheimer's disease by reducing the build-up of sticky plaques known as beta amyloid in the brain. This is one of the likely causes of the development of this disease. Research conducted on a group of almost 1.8 thousand patients with early-stage Alzheimer's...
The Silesian Center for Heart Diseases in Zabrze (SCCS) is already accepting patients in the newly opened wing of the hospital. The building houses, among others departments of cardiology, diseases of affluence and mechanical circulatory support. The expansion of the hospital was co-financed by...
Over PLN 3.1 billion will go to 14 hospitals treating children. Thanks to the money allocated to investments, the comfort of care for young patients is to be increased. The first competition under the Medical Fund has been adjudicated.
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...
Women develop heart disease on average 10 years later than men. Until the onset of menopause, they are protected by hormones - estrogens. Then, it is heart and vascular disease - heart attack and stroke - that are the most common causes of death in women. This is the case not only in Poland, but...
Svante Pääbo, a Swedish biologist specializing in evolutionary genetics, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The award jury appreciated his discoveries regarding genomes. - His research is an answer to the question of where we are from and how long different types of homoites lived...
The government plans to transfer to the National Health Fund the obligation to finance all current expenses related to health protection. The state budget is to stop paying, inter alia, for vaccinations, medical rescue or highly specialized procedures. We asked dr. Tadeusz Jędrzejczyk, specialist...
The conditions of hospitalization of patients of the district hospital in Starachowice (Świętokrzyskie) will improve. The clinic has started the renovation of the General Surgical Department.
- Caring for the quality of education should be a priority in our next year of activity - said Minister of Health Adam Niedzielski during the inauguration of the academic year at the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice.
On Friday evening, the assumptions of the amendment to the act were published, which - if passed - will radically change the financial situation of health care. The direction of changes, however, will be exactly the opposite than what PiS announced in 2015: at that time, they wanted the financing...
- We want to provide patients suffering from multiple sclerosis the necessary knowledge and facilitate their meetings with other patients - says Monika Łada, president of the SclerosisRozsiane Foundation.Info, in an interview with Medexpress, and announces conferences for patients. There are also...
Vaccination of children 5-11 years of age with a booster dose of Covid-19 vaccine begins. During the night, the Ministry of Health issued 262 thousand. referrals. Primary immunization of children 5-11 years old against Covid-19 began on December 16 last year. Young patients receive Pfizer in a...
"There was and there is neither my consent nor the consent of the government to keep any pregnancy registry," Health Minister Adam Niedzielski wrote on Twitter. It is a reaction to the information appearing in the media regarding the extension of the scope of information reported in the...
The Regulation of the Minister of Health of September 29, 2022 on the establishment of the Team for the development of changes to the standard of education preparing for the profession of pharmacist was submitted for consultation.
Vaccination of children 5-11 years old with the booster dose of the Covid-19 vaccine begins. During the night, the Ministry of Health issued 262 thousand. referrals.
Medical exemption from exercise in PE lessons should not mean that students lose contact with these classes at all. Those dismissed from general classes should follow the core curriculum with modifications - it follows from the discussion that took place on Thursday at the meeting of the joint...
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