- Very many adults with SMA are active in the workforce and living full lives despite their disabilities. Regaining previously lost functionality realistically translates into their everyday life, e.g., they turn part-time jobs into full-time jobs, continue their education or pursue their...
A complicated neurosurgical procedure on the infant will be carried out on Tuesday by a team of specialists led by Prof. David Larysz, MD, head of the Department of Head and Neck Surgery for Children and Adolescents at the Children's Hospital in Olsztyn. 7.5-month-old Liliana Drzazga from Bartág,...
- Every woman in Poland has the right to terminate her pregnancy in the event of a threat to her health or life, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said at a press conference on Monday. Following the tragic events that occurred at the hospital in Nowy Targ, a team is to be established to...
The upcoming session of the Sejm will last from Tuesday to Friday (June 13-16). The agenda includes, among other things, the Law on Quality, the Law on Certain Medical Professions, the Medical Events Compensation Fund and the civic project on in vitro reimbursement.
The Forum is an annual conference that addresses important topics related to improving the functioning of the system, as well as increasing the effectiveness of treatment through innovative personalized therapies. It is a meeting of leading European and Polish experts working in the areas of...
"The Council of Ministers has adopted a major amendment to the Reimbursement Law," Deputy Health Minister Janusz Cieszynski announced on Twitter. However, a bill on free medicines for children and seniors over the age of 65 was removed from the agenda of the government meeting. - We will be...
Congress Health Summit over the past decade has become a permanent fixture on the calendar of the most important events dedicated to health care in Poland. It is a platform for open dialogue between all key stakeholders in the system, enabling the exchange of ideas, experiences and solutions that...
In recent years, the annual number of births in Poland has ranged from 297,000 to 366,000, according to a report published by the National Health Fund. Nearly half of the births are by cesarean section.
The government will address today a draft amendment to the Law on Reimbursement of Medicines, Foodstuffs for Special Dietary Purposes and Medical Devices. This is the so-called "big amendment to the Reimbursement Law."
- Legal solutions are needed to secure the patient's ability to access free vaccination at the pharmacy," said President of the Supreme Pharmaceutical Chamber Elżbieta Piotrowska-Rutkowska during the June meeting of the Senate Health Committee. The pharmacists' self-government is asking what's...
Created for therapeutic purposes, the ketogenic diet is finding more and more applications in the treatment of many diseases, not just neurological ones. Whether it is just a supportive treatment or a real cure is explained by Katarzyna Drąg - clinical dietitian at the Children's Clinical...
Starting in November 2021, the Breast Cancer Awareness Center in Gdansk began work on an innovative project, personalized rehabilitation dedicated to patients with a diagnosis of breast cancer based on the oncoplastic procedure performed and the time since it.
"Annually more than 22,000 new cancers are diagnosed, with less than 40 percent being cases of early diagnosed breast cancer. "- says OmeaLife Foundation president Magdalena Cardinal.
The Ministry of Health is launching the "For the Health of Poles" campaign. Its goal is to promote solutions that facilitate access to services: including preventive programs, e-health services and myIKP applications.
More than 10,000 exercise groups nationwide and about 160,000 children supported - this is the projected reach of the new ProHealthy Holiday Half-Care Program. Children and adolescents will receive comprehensive care - during the semi-colonies they will be able to spend time actively, but most...
The Safe Patient Foundation has shared a translated version of WHO documents on procedures and conduct to improve patient safety.
- In Poland, we do not have access to innovative therapies, even if only long-acting agents, which are already standard in neighboring countries. We also do not have access to subcutaneous therapies. Such therapy dramatically changes the lives of families and the patients themselves, not only for...
The first reading of the civic bill on subsidizing the in vitro method for those struggling with infertility will take place at the next session of the Sejm (15.06.). - We will present our perspective: the perspective of families, people who have been trying for children for a very long time and...
W kwietniu b.r. Komisja Europejska opublikowała projekt nowej dyrektywy Unii Europejskiej dotyczącej leków stosowanych u ludzi, która miałaby zastąpić obecną dyrektywę 2001/83; a także projekt rozporządzenia unijnego, które zastąpiłoby obecnie obowiązujące rozporządzenie 726/2004 (o...
- To avoid recurrence and prolong recovery, adjuvant treatment should be introduced. It not only contributes to prolonging the time without recurrence, but very often even saves patients' lives. This is now the most urgent need, given that such treatment is already being introduced in many other...
- We want to simplify enforcement proceedings targeting parents who fail to meet their children's immunization obligations," Dariusz Poznański, director of the Public Health Department at the Health Ministry, told a June meeting of the Senate Health Committee. The ministry plans to amend the law...
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