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Blocking competition in the drug market means higher prices and lack of availability

The provision preventing price competition in the drug market that was included in the draft amendment to the reimbursement law needs to be modified. It blocks the entry of lower-priced drugs into reimbursement and introduces legal unpredictability, which threatens to cause companies to abandon...

March 29, 2023
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NIKard Spring Scientific Symposium - register today!

Registration for participation in the XXIX. Scientific Symposium of the National Institute of Cardiology. The formula of the event provides for panel discussions and expert speeches on new directions in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases - the discussions will be complemented...

March 29, 2023
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Polish startups bet on innovation for medicine

Huawei, together with Startup Academy, will announce today the results of the Huawei Startup Challenge 3. The competition was aimed at Polish startups that focus on creating medical innovations to protect and improve people's physical and mental health. We discuss the needs in this area with...

March 29, 2023
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Forms of therapy have a major impact on personalization of treatment and quality of life for MS patients

Interview with Professor Krzysztof Selmai, director of the Center for Neurology in Lodz, head of the Department of Neurology at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

March 29, 2023
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It's going to be May - a protest by addiction therapists

The Trade Union of Psychiatric and Addiction Treatment Workers has announced a protest outside the Health Ministry building for May 12. We publish the protesters' demands on Medexpress.

March 28, 2023
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Adam Niedzielski: We are working on an ambitious restructuring plan for IPIN

- At the moment, the financing of the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology is done through loans from parabanks, but the essence and purpose of the change we are making is to switch the financing to an arranged relationship with BGK," said Health Minister Adam Niedzielski, referring to press...

March 28, 2023
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Astronomical medical bills in the US

Every year in the U.S., more than half a million families declare bankruptcy due to horrendoushigh medical bills. Because, for example, just getting a sick person to the hospital can cost up to half a million dollars! We present the absurdly high bills that Americans receive. And this is despite...

March 28, 2023
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Adam Niedzielski: Funding for child and adolescent psychiatry has exceeded one billion zlotys

- What's important about community care centers is that not only children are treated here, but entire families. This is another possibility that is important especially in large cities," said Health Minister Adam Niedzielski at the opening of the Mental Health Center for Children and Adolescents...

March 28, 2023
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AOTMiT: Transparency Council on lung cancer drugs and PNH, among others

April 3 next meeting of the Transparency Council.

March 28, 2023
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ATRIP - a new breast cancer gene

Scientists from Poland and Canada have discovered a new gene whose mutations cause a high risk of breast cancer! The international team of researchers was led by Cezary Cybulski, a geneticist from the Department of Genetics and Pathomorphology at Pomeranian Medical University, and Mohammad Akbari...

March 27, 2023
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Work organization vs. patient care cost optimization

Dr. Katarzyna Kęcka, chairman of the board of directors of Szpitalne Centrum Medyczne in Goleniów sp. z o.o., Polish Federation of Hospitals.

March 27, 2023
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Immunotherapy can significantly delay relapse in lung cancer

- Atezolizumab contributes to prolonging disease-free time. The efficacy of this treatment was significantly associated with an assessment of the expression of the receptor for programmed death, PD-L1. The immunotherapy trial found that patients responded better the higher the expression, Dr....

March 27, 2023
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In psychiatry, harm reduction has been used for a long time

We discuss the usefulness of harm reduction methods in treating nicotine addiction with Professor Piotr Galecki, national consultant in psychiatry.

March 27, 2023
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Patient Empowerment Podcast: Maria Libura i Przemysław Marszałek

Gośćmi Patient Empowerment Podcast są: Maria Libura, ekspertka Centrum Analiz Klubu Jagiellońskiego ds. zdrowia i Przemysław Marszałek, sekretarz MukoKoalicji, członek CF Europe i zarządu Fundacji MATIO.

March 27, 2023
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Problems in the diagnostic and therapeutic process of children with locomotor cancers

Primary bone tumors account for about 6-7% of the incidence among young cancer patients, and their cure rate is estimated at about 65-75%[1]. Whether or not a child recovers, and how comfortable his or her life will be during and after treatment, depends largely on the stage at which the disease...

March 27, 2023
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Physiotherapy: From April 1, changes in home rehabilitation

There will be no regionalization, but legal changes are needed to increase access to physiotherapy at home

March 27, 2023
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Janssen Poland with new managing director

Effective June 1, 2023, Geraldine Schenk will assume the position of Managing Director of Janssen Poland.Geraldine Schenk began her career at Johnson & Johnson in 2003 at Janssen Switzerland, where she was promoted several times, eventually serving as Chief Commercial Officer and Board Member of...

March 27, 2023
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Alzheimer's disease: faster diagnosis based on retinal analysis

Dr. Christine Greer of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Boca Raton, Florida, says that by analyzing the optic nerve and retina, it is possible to obtain detailed information about the normalities and abnormalities of our nervous system. This includes a diagnosis for Alzheimer's...

March 27, 2023
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Barbara Dziuk: It was my mother who taught me prevention

Iwona Schymalla's guest is MP Barbara Dziuk, one of the most active people in politics in the area of health.

March 27, 2023
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Gynecological equipment from Poznan hospital will go to Cameroon

The Gynecological and Obstetrical Clinical Hospital of the Poznan University of Medical Sciences has donated medical equipment that will go to medical centers in Cameroon. These are devices that could no longer be used in Poland.

March 24, 2023
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A kidney was transplanted at a hospital in Szczecin using a robot. This is the first such operation in the region and the third in the country

Last week, a kidney was harvested from a living donor using the da Vinci robotic system for the first time at a hospital in Szczecin's Pomorzany district. This is the third such donation in Poland. The recipient was the son of the donor.

March 24, 2023