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Zrzut ekranu 2024-02-5 o 12.55.18

Acute myeloid leukemia - challenges 2024

Acute myeloid leukemia is one of the relatively rare hematopoietic malignancies. We discuss the diagnostic and therapeutic challenges with Professor Lidia Gil of the Department of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation at the Poznan University of Medical Sciences.

Feb. 8, 2024
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Nurses' salaries to subcommittee. This is not what they were hoping for...

A civic bill to amend the law on minimum wages in health care, prepared by the nursing community, will be handled by an extraordinary subcommittee, the Health and Public Finance committees decided at a joint meeting on Wednesday.

Feb. 7, 2024
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Latest real-time glucose monitoring system (rtCGM) now available in Poland

Dexcom, a global leader in real-time continuous glucose monitoring (rtCGM) systems for people with diabetes, today announced the launch of its newest rtCGM system, the Dexcom ONE+. The system is available in Poland, Spain and Belgium as of today, and will soon be released in other countries as well.

Feb. 7, 2024
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People with intellectual disabilities need special support. What is needed is the involvement of the authorities

- The topic of people with intellectual disabilities and disabilities in general needs more government involvement. The group of people with intellectual disabilities has so far been on the fringes of the margins," Lukasz Krasoń, government plenipotentiary for people with disabilities, secretary...

Feb. 7, 2024
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"Health - a Shared Value. World Cancer Day - Cancer Moonshot".

- Oncology is associated with dying and this stereotype should be changed, because cancer is already a chronic disease. In Poland, almost one million people have cured cancer and only undergo regular check-ups. But, unfortunately, the number of patients will increase, which is why we need to...

Feb. 7, 2024
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Government: there will be no restrictions on access to cancer treatment

The government has approved a draft amendment to the law on the National Oncology Network. - We are postponing the effective date of some of the provisions of the National Oncology Network. Thanks to this, we retain the possibility of using all oncological therapies in all hospitals that provide...

Feb. 7, 2024
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Prof. Leszek Czupryniak: Poorly managed seniors endure diabetes worse

- Senior age is special in that the body always functions less well as the years go by, and diabetes accelerates those processes that normally take place in aging. It can be said that a patient with diabetes ages twice as fast, as long as he is treated poorly. If he is well managed and follows...

Feb. 7, 2024
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Prof. Janusz Andres: With new drugs, we can assure the patient that anesthesia is safe

- Anesthesiology takes patient safety as its starting point. Anyone undergoing sedation or anesthesia must first and foremost be safe," Professor Janusz Andres, president of the Polish Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, told Medexpress in an interview.

Feb. 7, 2024
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Challenges in cardiology. Will the MZ increase valuations?

Nearly half of all deaths are caused by cardiovascular disease. After the great success of dramatically reducing mortality in acute coronary syndromes, the following years, decades now, have not brought such significant progress. How to change this? How to strengthen cardiac care on the one hand,...

Feb. 7, 2024
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Conference "About getting sick in a humane way" - An event for everyone facing chronic diseases!

On the eve of World Sick Day, the People and Medicine Foundation is organizing for the second time the conference "On Sickness in Human Terms," aimed at all those who face various chronic diseases. The conference will be held on February 10, 2024, and will consist of lectures and practical...

Feb. 6, 2024
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Prevention is limping along. Less than one in five women come in for a cytology.

Cervical cancer is the third most common cancer in women worldwide. About half a million women hear such a diagnosis every year, including more than 3,800 - in Poland. One of the lowest five-year survival rates in Europe is recorded in our country. Experts agree - prevention is limping along, so...

Feb. 6, 2024
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Press conference after the meeting of the Council of Ministers

A bill to amend the law on the National Cancer Network.

Feb. 6, 2024
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Parlamentarny Zespół ds. profilaktyki nowotworowej - RAK STOP

Przyszłość diagnostyki i profilaktyki nowotworowej - diagnostyka genetyczna i molekularna.

Feb. 6, 2024
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Prof. Małgorzata Figurska: Program lekowy w chorobach siatkówki to przełom

– Program lekowy sprawił, że pacjenci są właściwie zaopiekowani i diagnozowani. Dzięki ostatniej aktualizacji mamy w programie nową cząsteczkę, farycymab, która pozwala istotnie wydłużyć odstępy czasowe między zgłaszaniem się pacjentów do ośrodka – powiedziała prof. Małgorzata Figurska z Kliniki...

Feb. 6, 2024
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Vaccination: one would like great things....

... and here reality squawks. This colloquial version of Stanislaw Wyspianski's words ("So that our hearts would laugh to great, great things. And here commonness squawks ...") perfectly describes the current situation in the sensitive area of public health quite accurately.

Feb. 5, 2024
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[SONDA] MPs on access to molecular diagnostics

Molecular diagnostics has been one of the most important topics of public debate since the beginning of 2023. In addition to the work on amending the Medical Fund Act, the topic of molecular diagnostics in the treatment of cancer patients has been raised repeatedly in the Polish Parliament, twice...

Feb. 5, 2024
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Change at eHealth Center. Pawel Kikosicki says goodbye to his position as director

- After more than two years, it is time to say goodbye to the eHealth Center. It was a very intensive period, during which we did a great job," Pawel Kikosicki wrote on social media. Changes at the CeZ were recently announced by Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna in an interview with TVN television.

Feb. 5, 2024
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Biological medicines for Poland

Within the Polish Association of Employers of the Pharmaceutical Industry - National Drug Manufacturers, the section Biological Drugs for Poland has been separated, which will deal with activities aimed at increasing Polish patients' access to biological therapies and developing their production...

Feb. 5, 2024
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Signs of cancer that a dentist can spot. Signals that should not be ignored

The earlier detected, the better the chances of survival - with this statement any oncologist will agree. Cancer, however, does not always produce unambiguous symptoms or they are difficult for the average person to see. Sometimes, quite by chance, a specialist in another field will see something...

Feb. 5, 2024
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Implant Telepatia. Postęp techniczny czy terapeutyczny?

Dotychczasowe wizjonerskie projekty Elona Muska: Space X i Tesla okazały się sukcesem. Czy implant TELEPATIA będzie kolejnym i zrewolucjonizuje świat medycyny? Przekonamy się o tym zapewne szybciej niż się tego spodziewamy.

Feb. 5, 2024
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The needs of pediatric oncology are great. It is also important to cooperate with pediatricians

- The additional 3 billion zlotys that have been allocated for pediatric oncology instead of TV will certainly meet those immediate needs that oncology resources have, Deputy Health Minister Ursula Demkow said in an interview with our reporter, ahead of a meeting of the Parliamentary Group for...

Feb. 2, 2024