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Piotr Rutkowski
Profilaktyka

Why don't we investigate?

Two-thirds of Poles do not perform preventive examinations, and 40 percent. does not know that they are free - according to the published report "Why don't we test ourselves? Prevention of Polish women and Poles”.

Nov. 23, 2022
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ICU hospital. episode 3: Robotics in medicine

– The patient gains a shorter period of convalescence and hospital stay, as well as a better quality of life after the procedure, because these procedures are minimally invasive. Doctors, however, have a better work tool that helps them ensure greater precision during operations - this is how...

Nov. 22, 2022
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Fire in a hospital in Wołomin

A fire broke out in the storage rooms in the basement of the Hospital of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Wołomin, reports TVN Warszawa. One of the units had to be evacuated. One person was poisoned by carbon monoxide.

Nov. 22, 2022
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Medexpress news summary - November 22, 2022

Almost half of the world's population suffers from oral diseases, and 75% of those affected live in low- and middle-income countries. The number of cases of oral disease worldwide has increased by one billion in the last 30 years. These are the conclusions of the latest Global Oral Health Report,...

Nov. 22, 2022
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Pharmacies under pressure

On November 18, the Regulation of the Minister of Health of October 27, 2022 on the basic conditions for running a pharmacy was published in the Journal of Laws of the Republic of Poland.

Nov. 22, 2022
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Every second person in the world neglects oral health

Almost half of the world's population suffers from oral diseases, and 75% of them suffer from oral diseases. of those affected live in low- and middle-income countries. The number of cases of oral disease worldwide has increased by one billion in the last 30 years. These are the conclusions of...

Nov. 22, 2022
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Dialogue is key in the work on the new reimbursement act

- There is a lack of dialogue and partner exchange of opinions - this is how Michał Byliniak, director of the General Employers' Association of Innovative Pharmaceutical Companies, INFARMA, says about the work on the Major Amendment to the Reimbursement Act. Meanwhile, the new act is being...

Nov. 21, 2022
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The Ministry of Health awarded subsidies to medical universities. How much money did universities get?

The Ministry of Health published the Announcement of the Minister of Health of November 18, 2022 on increasing the amount of subsidies from financial resources for the maintenance and development of didactic and research potential granted for 2022.

Nov. 21, 2022
Msolecka
Felieton

However, politicians reached for money from contributions

For the last nearly a quarter of a century, we have lived in the belief that money from health insurance premiums is beyond the reach of political decisions. It was the crowning argument for maintaining a system based on health insurance premiums, which of course can hardly be called insurance,...

Nov. 21, 2022
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MZ: Over PLN 4.5 billion more for hospitals

The Ministry of Health and the National Health Fund announce an increase in the lump sum for hospitals: in the range of half a billion PLN for this year and over PLN 4 billion for the next year. These are additional funds that will be available to all those who, showing care for patients,...

Nov. 18, 2022
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ABM

A chance to improve the quality of life for patients with pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers. The World Pancreatic Cancer Day, celebrated in November, is a special occasion to draw attention to the need to seek innovative methods of treating this disease.

Nov. 18, 2022
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Care ... like butter

Mango butter is cold pressed from Indian mango seeds, i.e. Mangifera Indica. This process preserves all natural nutrients, and thus the care properties. And there are plenty of them!

Nov. 18, 2022
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There will be a new template of the document "Law to practice the profession of laboratory diagnostician". Will existing documents remain valid?

The Draft Ordinance of the Minister of Health on the template of the document "Light to practice the profession of laboratory diagnostician" was submitted for consultation

Nov. 17, 2022
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AOTMiT: Transparency Council, among others will evaluate drugs for lung cancer and AS

On Monday, November 21, the next meeting of the Transparency Council.

Nov. 17, 2022
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Money for health. The Sejm passed the transfer of expenses. How did it happen?

Throughout the day on Wednesday, the fate of the government's amendment to the act on the professions of doctor and dentist, shifting the financing of all medical services to the National Health Fund, was in the balance. And just before midnight, the Sejm finally passed the law. How did it happen?

Nov. 17, 2022
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The pandemic is an important lesson. Experts from around the world have developed important recommendations

The latest issue of the journal Nature published the results of an international study on strategies to minimize the effects of future pandemics. The findings made by almost four hundred experts from one hundred countries show, among other things, that the Achilles heel of many governments during...

Nov. 16, 2022
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The Covid-19 pandemic is a great lesson in vaccinology

Conversation with dr hab. Ernest Kuchar, head of the Pediatrics Clinic with the Observation Department of the Medical University of Warsaw, president of the Polish Society of Vaccinology.

Nov. 16, 2022
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The creation of health debt is the biggest loss suffered by the system as a result of the pandemic

Conversation with prof. Zbigniew Gaciong, Rector of the Medical University of Warsaw.

Nov. 16, 2022
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Prof. Mariusz Gujski: Communication was an Achilles heel during the pandemic

– We were unable to clearly, calmly and objectively explain to people where certain restrictions come from and why they should behave as they did. We were unable to explain our decisions factually, and it is worth adding that many of them were incomprehensible, wrong and absurd. They often...

Nov. 16, 2022
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Coronavirus epidemic: Latest data from the Ministry of Health

The Ministry of Health provided data for the period from November 10 to 16: we have 2,403 (including 501 re-infections) confirmed cases of coronavirus infection from the provinces: mazowieckie (331), Silesian (261), Lower Silesia (215), Lesser Poland (211), Greater Poland (189), Pomeranian (150),...

Nov. 16, 2022
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The determination of the level of reimbursement requires simplification

– The current system of reimbursement of medicines, foodstuffs for particular nutritional uses, according to which the person issuing the prescription is responsible for determining the level of payment, is dysfunctional! – warn doctors in a letter to Adam Niedzielski, the Minister of Health,...

Nov. 16, 2022