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Intravenous anesthesia will be available for subsequent patients diagnosed with AOS

Prostate biopsy, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging can be performed on an outpatient basis under intravenous anesthesia. The Ministry of Health wants such changes. Until now, this form of anesthesia could only be used during hospitalization.

Oct. 7, 2022
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The question of trust in the health care system is a complex matter

Oct. 7, 2022
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How to ensure effective implementation of telemedicine in the health care system?

Experts participating in the discussion at the conference organized on Thursday by NIL and the Telemedicine Working Group tried to answer this and other questions related to telemedicine.

Oct. 6, 2022
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Medexpress message summary - October 7, 2022

- We are approaching the point where we can say that thanks to vaccinations and drugs, which are slowly appearing, we control the situation and the relatively large number of infections does not pose a significant burden, for example, to hospitals - said the Minister of Health in an interview...

Oct. 6, 2022
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A new branch at the National Institute of Cardiology

The Department of Mechanical Support and Heart Transplantation has been opened at the National Institute of Cardiology. It will treat patients with severe forms of heart failure. Annually, there may be up to two hundred of them. The launch of the new branch is the last stage of a several-year...

Oct. 6, 2022
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Adam Niedzielski

The pandemic is no longer a threat to the health of the healthcare system

- We are approaching the point where we can say that thanks to vaccinations and drugs that are slowly appearing, we are controlling the situation and the relatively large number of infections do not pose a significant burden, for example, to hospitals - said health minister Adam Niedzielski in an...

Oct. 6, 2022
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Not only premature babies should have access to RS virus immunotherapy. Doctors are calling for the extension of the program

- Each infection is a deterioration of the child's general health, and this can affect the overall prognosis - said Maria Miszczak-Knecht, MD, a national consultant in the field of pediatric cardiology, at the Coalition for Premature Infant Foundation's conference on protecting children against...

Oct. 6, 2022
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New therapies are helping to increase the survival rate of pancreatic cancer patients

Oct. 6, 2022
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Coronavirus: Latest MZ data

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...

Oct. 5, 2022
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Medexpress message summary - 5.10.2022

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....

Oct. 5, 2022
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Increased chaos

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...

Oct. 5, 2022
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Healthcare facilities targeted by cybercriminals

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.

Oct. 5, 2022
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Lecanemab has been shown to be effective in delaying the progression of Alzheimer's disease

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...

Oct. 4, 2022
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The new wing of the Silesian Center for Heart Diseases in Zabrze is already open

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...

Oct. 4, 2022
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Pediatric hospitals received support from the Medical Fund

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.

Oct. 4, 2022
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Walenty Zajdel

Vaccinations against COVID-19

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...

Oct. 4, 2022
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"Women's Heart" - the second edition starts

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...

Oct. 4, 2022
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Medexpress message summary - 4/10/2022

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...

Oct. 4, 2022
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Dr Tadeusz Jędrzejczyk

Patients must take into account the longer queues

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...

Oct. 4, 2022
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The renovation of the Surgery Department in the hospital in Starachowice has started

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.

Oct. 4, 2022
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Adam Niedzielski: The quality of doctors' education will not deteriorate

- 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.

Oct. 4, 2022