The Council of the Capital City of Warsaw has passed a resolution to award grants for 2024 for the implementation of the "Healthy Student" and "Active Senior" programs, Deputy Mayor Renata Kaznowska announced on social media.
Pregnancy, childbirth and then postpartum is a unique stage in every woman's life. For the sake of women's well-being, as well as that of their children, it is important to provide adequate support to the patient, both physically and mentally. Patient Ombudsman Bartlomiej Chmielowiec encourages...
At the end of 2023, interventional procedures for critical heart defects in fetuses will be added to the surgeries performed at Warsaw's Bielański Hospital. - The smallest hearts require the care of top-notch specialists and the best quality equipment, stresses Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski.
"The global costs associated with the new location will be lower than in the current building, with a similar square footage," assures the Medical Research Agency. This is in response to media reports indicating that the building to which ABM will move in the middle is one of the most expensive...
Patients with plasmocytic myeloma have gained access to first-line treatment with daratumumab in the DRd regimen (in combination with lenalidomide and dexamethasone). Patients and their physicians have been waiting for this reimbursement decision.
- It is worth considering the abolition of referrals to an ophthalmologist, doctors of the Zielonogórski Association argue. In their opinion, accessibility to specialists has not improved thanks to them.
Minister Rodziny, Pracy i Polityki Społecznej Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk złożyła na ręce premiera Donalda Tuska wniosek o odwołanie prezes Zakładu Ubezpieczeń Społecznych prof. Gertrudy Uścińskiej z zajmowanego stanowiska. Zgodnie z zapowiedzią szefa rządu, nazwisko nowego prezesa poznamy w...
Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna has dismissed Lukasz Szumowski from his position as director of the National Institute of Cardiology.
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In response to numerous requests to the authors of the series, we are separately posting the entire text and presentation on the Medical Event Compensation Fund. Together part 4 - 6.
The Parliamentary Health Committee this week will face its first (of a long list) "investigative" topic, taking the Medical Research Agency under the magnifying glass. An agency against which, already at the stage of legislative work in 2019, the then opposition had numerous objections, and...
- I firmly declare that I met all the criteria required by the competition, including the statutory requirement to have three years of experience in human resources management," wrote Dr. Radoslaw Sierpinski, former president of the Medical Research Agency, on social media. This is in response to...
It affects up to 60 percent of adult Poles, but only a few are aware that they are struggling with it. We are talking about hypercholesterolemia. Its development is particularly influenced by lifestyle, including poor nutrition, lack of exercise, obesity, alcohol consumption, smoking and genetic...
The end of the year is fast approaching, and with it comes a lavish New Year's Eve party and... a list of New Year's resolutions. Many a person will make the decision to quit smoking for the first (or next) time. And rightly so, because it is an extremely unhealthy addiction. "Yellowed teeth are...
For the 18th time, on the occasion of World Sick Day on February 07-08, 2024. leaders of patient organizations, experts, as well as representatives of the administration and politicians will meet in Warsaw to discuss the most current topics concerning the health care system from the perspective...
It has been a good year for Polish hematology, which has shown that we are slowly moving toward European standards of treatment and care for hemato-oncology patients. A national hematology network is being piloted in Poland, and each reimbursement list in 2023 has brought more hematooncology...
Every day dozens - if not hundreds - of doctors, nurses, medical caregivers and pharmacists cross the Polish-German border. They work in Schwedt, Locknitz or Prenzlau. Their situation has been difficult for some time for several reasons, such as border controls. They are bracing themselves for...
In the sack, the Presidential Council on Health Care will begin work on a bill on financing various infertility treatments. Its submission was announced by the President when he signed the law on financing IVF from the state budget in mid-December.
Zdrowie publiczne stoi w tej chwili przed wieloma wyzwaniami, takimi jak starzejące się społeczeństwo czy zmiany demograficzne. Trzeba wprowadzać zmiany terapeutyczne, a także wdrażać nowe rozwiązania technologiczne i procesowe – mówi dr inż. Agnieszka Sznyk z Instytutu Innovo. Właśnie te kwestie...
For an assessment of the situation in the health care system at the end of 2023, we asked Prof. Alicja Chybicka, an MP from the Civic Coalition who sits on the Parliamentary Health Committee.
What did the medical world live in 2023? We look at what the most relevant information brought in the months of October through December.
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