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OIL in Szczecin: Future of delivery rooms depends on MPs' decisions

- This topic should be addressed outside of emotions of a typically political nature. There is nothing wrong with limiting the operation of departments that consume financial resources while not being used properly. This is a waste of the potential of the medical staff. However, it is worthwhile...

Nov. 6, 2024
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An innovative heart procedure was performed in Krakow. It is the second of its kind in the world

In the hybrid room of the Hemodynamics and Angiography Laboratory (Clinical Department of Interventional Cardiology with Intensive Cardiac Care Unit) at the St. John Paul II Specialized Hospital in Krakow, the first successful in Europe and the second in the world innovative procedure of...

Nov. 6, 2024
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"We Count Our Health" - Medical Rationale of State debate

The financial problems of the public health care system are prompting a rationalization of spending. Experts from the Medical Rationale of State stressed that in this situation it is particularly profitable to manage health through education, effective prevention, improved adherence and optimal...

Nov. 6, 2024
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NHF: Patients have access to home rehabilitation

"Contrary to the information reported by an organization formed in October this year that unites only part of the physiotherapist community, home rehabilitation is and will continue to be available to patients. The National Health Fund has signed nearly 400 contracts for the provision of these...

Nov. 6, 2024
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Reimbursement right finally assigned to patient

Seniors and children and adolescents will also receive prescriptions for free medicines from doctors accepting them at facilities that do not have a contract with the National Health Fund - the government approved a draft amendment to the Law on Health Services on Tuesday. The important change...

Nov. 6, 2024
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Karowa Hospital with certificate "Hospital without pain"

The Rev. Anna Mazowiecka Clinical Hospital has been certified as a "Hospital without pain," confirming the implementation of pain relief procedures in accordance with the guidelines of the Polish Society for the Study of Pain. Patients of the facility will be regularly asked to assess the...

Nov. 5, 2024
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Breakthrough prenatal therapy saves children with congenital vascular malformations

At the University Clinical Center in Gdansk, two children who were diagnosed with extensive complex vascular malformations already in the fetal period underwent innovative treatment before birth. This is the first in Poland and one of the first of its kind in the world.

Nov. 5, 2024
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Wastewater directive. What do drug manufacturers say about it?

The European Union wants to eliminate from municipal wastewater drug residues excreted by people who need to take them. This is to be financed by the pharmaceutical industry. - This is a huge expense for manufacturers of inexpensive drugs, which will result in an increase in the cost of their...

Nov. 5, 2024
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It was a milestone in transplantology. It's 39 years since the first successful heart transplant in Poland

On November 5, 1985, Professor Zbigniew Religa performed Poland's first successful heart transplant. The operation took place at the then Provincial Cardiology Center) in Zabrze, today it is the Silesian Center for Heart Diseases.

Nov. 5, 2024
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Anita Najmrocka: It's been three years since I had a bout of NMOSD. This is due to innovative treatment

Since 2010, she has been suffering from a severe autoimmune disease of the nervous system - NMOSD or neuritis spectrum disorder of the optic nerves and spinal cord. Anita Najmrocki experienced symptoms such as excruciating pain, hemiparesis, difficulty with movement, and loss of vision. Before...

Nov. 4, 2024
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A macabre "prank". Nails and razor blades in candy

Nails, needles, razor blades - candies with such additives were distributed to children playing on Halloween across Poland by as yet unidentified perpetrators. Doctors are outraged and are speaking out about the dangers of ingesting candy with such additives.

Nov. 4, 2024
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Mental health of children and adolescents after a pandemic. Should it be a topic of the Polish presidency of the EU Council?

The lack of an effective system of early prevention in the field of child and adolescent mental health, the insufficient number of child and adolescent psychiatrists in the face of a growing number of patients, and the excessively long waiting time for specialized psychiatric assistance in some...

Nov. 4, 2024
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Marcin Karolewski: Human resources are health care capital, not a crutch

"The Polish Society of Physician Managers, looking at the public narrative blaming medics, and doctors in particular, with the catastrophic state of the National Health Fund's finances, unequivocally states that the current burdening of doctors with the situation of the National Health Fund is a...

Nov. 4, 2024
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Novel imaging technique offers hope to glioblastoma multiforme patients

A team of researchers from the National Cancer Institute in Gliwice, in collaboration with the Silesian Medical University in Katowice and the Institute of Cancer Research in London, has developed a novel immuno-PET imaging technique using a Zr-89-labeled antibody that could enable patients with...

Nov. 4, 2024
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Exploding "disposables"

- Disposable e-cigarettes, which are mainly manufactured in China, have hit the market in the millions, if not tens or hundreds of millions. They have been imported into the European Union market, including Poland. These are cigarettes that use the worst, cheapest components, including lithium...

Nov. 4, 2024
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It's not just honey. Apitherapy has enormous healing potential

- We are aiming to be able to talk about evidence-based apitherapy. The idea is that apitherapy should be based on specific scientific studies and on relevant standards," says Miroslaw Szczepanski, MD, PhD, from the Medical University of Warsaw, a specialist in laryngology and president of the...

Nov. 4, 2024
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Once amputations were the lifesaver, today physiotherapy. Four decades of oncology rehabilitation

- It happened that patients with severe edema could only be helped by amputating a limb. Oncological rehabilitation changed everything," recalls Prof. Andrzej Kulakowski, doyen of Polish oncology. Over the past four decades, oncology rehabilitation in Poland has undergone a significant...

Nov. 4, 2024
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Law and Justice will file a motion of no confidence in Izabela Leszczyny

Law and Justice will submit a motion of no confidence in Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna at the next session of the Sejm. - What is needed is a minister who will have a plan, Law and Justice Chairman Jaroslaw Kaczynski reasoned on Thursday.

Oct. 31, 2024
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Doctors' earnings, or about (not) looking into pockets

Prime Minister Donald Tusk assures that he is the last person who would look into anyone's pocket and will remove from the government anyone who tried to do so. However, the topic of doctors' salaries - and, in fact, the contracts they enter into with hospitals - will not be off the agenda for a...

Oct. 31, 2024
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All Saints' Day - medical assistance

Every year, November 1 is a public holiday. This year, the All Saints' Day holiday falls on a Friday. And that means primary health care clinics will be closed. Many people travel away from where they live. Where to seek medical help when we get sick or feel worse during the holiday?

Oct. 31, 2024
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Pioneering endoscopic procedures at NIO-PIB

The National Cancer Institute in Warsaw recently performed two procedures that should be regarded as pioneering medical achievements. Both took place during the Warsaw Live Endoscopy (WLE) conference, and the work of the surgical teams was followed live by nearly 450 people.

Oct. 31, 2024