- We were able to identify ten doctors who issued between 100,000 and 400,000 prescriptions over the course of a year, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said at a press conference on Friday, and announced that a report had been filed with the prosecutor's office in this regard. In his opinion, the...
The WHO cancer research agency says aspartame is a possible source of carcinogens. A ruling on the matter is likely to be floated next month.
- Thanks to innovative therapies, patients undergoing palliative treatment can live with their disease for many years, argued experts participating in the panel "Palliative treatment - how medical advances are changing patients' perspectives" at the 2nd Men's Health Congress.
An interview with Professor Marcin Wojnar, head of the Department of Psychiatry at the Medical University of Warsaw.
This solution could revolutionize medical visits. Parrot AI, an intelligent physician assistant, is being developed in Kielce. It is expected to relieve medics from performing the tedious administrative tasks of medical interviewing and completing medical records. Artificial intelligence...
The accreditation process should be substantive, not political. Meanwhile, the composition of the Accreditation Council, as designed in the Law on Quality in Health Care and Patient Safety, indicates that it will be a highly politicized body, one of the accusations made during Wednesday's meeting...
- We conduct screening tests to detect the condition. We have already done more than half a million of them. They allow us to treat before symptoms appear. Today we are closing the care of patients with spinal muscular atrophy with modern rehabilitation, for example with the use of an...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the drug tofersen for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) associated with a mutation of the in the gene SOD1 in an accelerated registration procedure - It is the first drug to target the targeting the genetic cause of ALS and a...
- In more than half of the cases, the amniotic fluid drains due to the bacterial threat of various strains, many of which are highly malignant. The infection can therefore have a fulminant course. It's a condition in which a woman can even die within minutes," said Professor Piotr Sieroszewski,...
The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health Amending the Regulation on Granting Statutes to the Chief Pharmaceutical Inspectorate has been submitted for consultation.
We ask Christopher Kope, president of National Drug Manufacturers, about the impact of biological drugs on medical progress.
An interview with Prof. Piotr Galecki, national consultant in psychiatry.
Practical training for medical studies is immanent to the process of training young doctors. With the increasing number of medical students and faculty, it is becoming increasingly difficult to implement. Gaining clinical experience requires not only financial outlay, but also the openness of...
As many as 132 thousand people have contracted chickenpox since the beginning of the year, according to data from the National Institute of Public Health of the National Institute of Public Health - PIB. This is 95 thousand more than last year. This is the result of a compensatory epidemic after...
Congenital hypophosphatasia is an ultra-rare inborn metabolic defect that is caused by a deficiency in the activity of an important enzyme, alkaline phosphatase, says Jolanta Sykut-Cegielska, MD, IMiD professor, head of the Department of Inborn Metabolic Defects and Pediatrics at the Mother and...
In mid-June, a lung transplant was performed for the first time at Krakow's St. John Paul II Specialized Hospital . This is the first lung transplant center in Malopolska.
A team of transplant specialists from the Department of Cardiac Surgery at the University Clinical Center performed simultaneous heart and lung transplant operations on two patients. Anesthesia during the surgery and post-operative care were co-managed by doctors from the UCK Department of...
The health ministry reported data for the period from June 22-28: we have 149 (including 31 reinfections) confirmed cases of coronavirus infection from the provinces: mazowieckie (20), warmińsko-mazurskie (16), zachodniopomorskie (16), śląskie (13), kujawsko-pomorskie (12), łódzkie (12),...
Interview with Andrzej Tysarowski, MD, head of the Department of Genetic and Molecular Cancer Diagnostics at the National Cancer Institute in Warsaw, coordinator of genetic diagnostic guidelines within the National Cancer Strategy.
The Draft Regulation of the Minister of Health on Determining the Regulations of the Appeals Commission for Benefits from the Clinical Research Compensation Fund and the Remuneration of its Members has been submitted for consultation.
The transition period is coming to an end - as of July 1, referrals to sanatoriums in Poland will already be issued only in electronic form. The change is expected to facilitate the use of spa treatment services.
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