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"Prevention 40 plus" program extended until the end of the year

The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health amending the Regulation on the pilot program "Prevention 40 PLUS" has been submitted for consultation.

May 21, 2024
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Poland is a planet of monkeys

The problem of monkeys is the problem of a laborer going to a construction site that no one controls, it's the problem of an office worker who drinks three monkeys in an underground garage when he has to go up to the 38th floor. No one controls this, no one thinks about it. Are the so-called...

May 21, 2024
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Doctor, I'm just getting a prescription....

Some seniors have to go to the doctor twice to get a prescription entitling them to free drugs. This happens when the specialist does not have the authority to issue free prescriptions with code "S" for seniors 65 plus, experts from the Federation of the Zielonogórskie Agreement point out.

May 21, 2024
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Youth mental health prevention requires concerted action. Their axis should be the school

- We know that these are very difficult issues. In the last term, we began to talk about these problems loudly and even shout about them," said Senate Speaker Malgorzata Kidawa-Błońska, opening a conference on supporting the mental health of children and young people through inclusive education.

May 20, 2024
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Parliamentary Team for Cancer Prevention - RAK STOP

Fertility preservation in oncology patients - oncofertility.

May 20, 2024
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22nd Congress of Family Medicine

The Association of the College of Family Physicians in Poland is once again holding its annual congress for family physicians and primary care physicians. - This is a provable celebration of family medicine," says Dr. Michal Sutkowski and invites you to the congress.

May 20, 2024
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There is a new Code of Medical Ethics

The Extraordinary XVI National Congress of Physicians, which met in Łódź at the end of the week, made two important decisions: the regulations on elections within medical chambers were amended, and a new Code of Medical Ethics was adopted. Work on these documents took two years. Doctors were...

May 20, 2024
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Wojciech Konieczny: The previous team's idea of senior care is unworkable

Interview with Deputy Minister of Health Wojciech Konieczny, conducted during the 8th Patient Empowerment Congress.

May 20, 2024
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Economic Commission with new composition

The Ministry of Health has published the new composition of the Economic Commission.

May 17, 2024
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What do people love family doctors for?

- Family medicine is a demanding specialty. We are doctors for everything. Someone will maliciously say that for nothing, but this is not the case, this should never be said. We are not "frontline" doctors, but those who have to go deeply into the somatic and psychosomatic sphere of the patient,...

May 17, 2024
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Prof. Tomasz Targowski: There is no need to delay the introduction of systemic measures in the area of senior care

- There is a singularization of old age. We observe this every day in geriatric wards. We have more and more patients who are lonely, have no indications for hospitalization, and there is nowhere to discharge them," said Prof. Tomasz Targowski, head of the Geriatrics Clinic and Polyclinic of the...

May 17, 2024
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In the Sejm about abortion: genocide vs hell for women

The public hearing on the projects liberalizing anti-abortion laws lasted eight hours. Supporters of the current law accused their authors of wanting to murder unborn children and sanction genocide, and argued that all four bills are unconstitutional. Supporters of liberalization spoke of women's...

May 17, 2024
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Amgen's CEO in Poland Krisztián Szabolcs Toka on improving access to innovation

The Association of Employers of Innovative Pharmaceutical Companies INFARMA has just published its annual "Access Gap" report, summarizing Polish patients' access to innovative therapies. How would you comment on the latest results?According to data published by INFARMA in its third Access GAP...

May 17, 2024
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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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[SONDA] Members on osteoporosis.

Who is mainly affected by osteoporosis? What test is performed to detect it and how often should one undergo it? These questions, among others, were answered by MPs in a poll we conducted in the parliamentary corridors.

May 16, 2024
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Wojciech Konieczny: Central e-registration system will help fight queues and non-cancellation of appointments

Interview with Deputy Minister of Health Wojciech Konieczny, conducted during the 8th Patient Empowerment Congress.

May 16, 2024
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W Polsce spadła liczba aptek

W końcu 2023 r. działalność prowadziło 11,5 tys. aptek i 1,1 tys. punktów aptecznych – podaje Główny Urząd Statystyczny. To o odpowiednio o 1,6 oraz 2,5 proc. mniej, niż w roku poprzednim. Średnio na jedną aptekę i punkt apteczny przypada niemal 3 tys. pacjentów. Okazuje się też, że zawód...

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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What do the dying dream about?

- We are so psychologically constructed that we attribute the right to dream to people who are healthy. We forget that people at the end of life also dream," says Mariola Kosowicz, MD, clinical psychologist and psychooncologist at the Psychooncology Outpatient Clinic at the Oncology Center in...

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