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Experience the world with your senses

By interacting with sight, touch, hearing and smell, it is possible to alleviate the negative effects of anti-cancer treatment, as well as to counteract depressive disorders and reduce anxiety. In the Warsaw Institute "Pomnik - Centrum Zdrowia Dziecka", thanks to the cooperation of the Foundation...

Oct. 4, 2023
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UJ researchers have discovered a compound that will help fight skin discoloration

A chemical compound has been developed at Jagiellonian University that could become an important part of the treatment of skin hyperpigmentation. It has been shown to effectively inhibit the natural process of melanin production by skin cells. Researchers say that by applying the discovered...

Oct. 4, 2023
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Today is World Oncology Day. Doctors appeal to use preventive examinations

Although Polish patients can take advantage of free and virtually queue-free preventive examinations, there are few takers, family doctors say. Meanwhile, waiting rooms for primary care offices are crowded. Unfortunately, more and more often these doctors diagnose not simple infections, but...

Oct. 4, 2023
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United Imaging Healthcare - a high-quality medical imaging and radiation therapy device

Imaging studies play a key role in the process of diagnosing, monitoring and treating many medical conditions. High-quality imaging equipment has a direct impact on the accuracy of diagnoses and patient comfort during examinations. That's why it's worth taking a closer look at the United Imaging...

Oct. 4, 2023
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NFZ reimbursement report

The Headquarters of the National Health Fund announces information on the size of the reimbursement amount for January-July 2023.

Oct. 3, 2023
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Pozamedyczne potrzeby pacjentek onkologicznych

Doświadczenie choroby onkologicznej jest złożone i zindywidualizowane. Wpływa na różne sfery życia pacjenta. „Fundacja Piękniejsze Życie” z wynikami najnowszego i pierwszego tego typu badania, które wyraźnie pokazuje, że wygląd oraz troska o swój wizerunek pomagają w walce z chorobą.

Oct. 3, 2023
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What will the election bring to health?

Sensationalism on the lists and steady stagnation in the programs - this is how the offer for health from political groups could be summarized in the shortest way. At least the two main ones that have held the political scene in a clinch for almost two decades. And nothing augurs a quick...

Oct. 3, 2023
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MZ will fund recommended vaccines. Which ones?

The OJ of the Ministry of Health published the Notice of the Minister of Health dated September 29, 2023 on the list of recommended immunizations for which the purchase of vaccines has been covered by funding from the Minister of Health.

Oct. 3, 2023
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Psychologists from Ukraine have lost their right to practice in Poland

The Ombudsman has received a request from human rights organizations and institutions to intervene in the matter of extending the right to provide psychological services to psychologists from Ukraine without the need to nostrify their diplomas. The Ombudsman is intervening with Pavel Szefernaker,...

Oct. 3, 2023
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Training standards for doctors and dentists - regulation signed

The Minister of Education and Science, in consultation with the Minister of Health, has signed a decree amending the decree on the standards of training to prepare for the profession of doctor, dentist, pharmacist, nurse, midwife, laboratory diagnostician, physiotherapist and paramedic in the...

Oct. 2, 2023
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Nobel Prize 2023 for Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The research they conducted contributed to the development of the first mRNA vaccines to combat Covid-19.

Oct. 2, 2023
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Hypophosphatasia: We give patients the opportunity to develop normally and function in society

Medexpress: For years, you have been very dedicated to treating patients with rare diseases. You see how patients' needs are changing with the development of medicine. What does this look like for those affected by hypophosphatasia? How is the picture of their treatment changing?Prof. Zbigniew...

Oct. 2, 2023
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New qualification courses for pharmacists. The programs have already been published

Programs for three qualification courses for pharmacists approved by the Minister of Health have been published on the website of the Center for Medical Postgraduate Education. They concern: immunization and qualifying examination for COVID-19 and influenza vaccination, but also the performance...

Oct. 2, 2023
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GIF: Powerful painkiller suspended from marketing

What was the reason for the decision?

Oct. 2, 2023
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One-fifth of children in Mazovia are overweight. WUM's latest study

A study conducted by researchers at Warsaw Medical University indicates that one in five children in Mazovia is overweight. Problems with excess weight is a dangerous trend that requires effective education not only about diet, but also the entire lifestyle.

Oct. 2, 2023
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NIK has audited the finances of Lublin's Sanitary Inspection stations. It positively assessed only the PSSE in Kraśnik

The Supreme Audit Office, following an audit of district sanitary-epidemiological stations in Lubelskie Voivodeship, gave a positive assessment of the implementation of the financial plan for budget revenues and expenditures in 2021-2022 only in the facility in Kraśnik. In the other five audited...

Oct. 2, 2023
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CSO: How much did we spend on health in 2021?

There is a notice from the President of the Central Statistical Office on the National Health Account for 2021.

Oct. 2, 2023
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Doctors: Decision makers, think of the patient!

Several hundred doctors protested in front of the Health Ministry building on Saturday, demonstrating their opposition to mediocrity in health care, manifested, among other things, in the changes taking place in pre-graduate education. The picket lasted about two hours; no one from the Health...

Oct. 2, 2023
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NIK: Overpaid Interim Hospital in Opole and underutilized isolation facilities in Opole region

The wasteful spending of PLN 2.7 million for the adaptation of the Exhibition and Convention Center in Opole to a Temporary Hospital for COVID-19 patients, self-construction, the unjustified spending of PLN 530,000 for an isolation room in a hotel to which not a single patient was referred, a...

Sept. 29, 2023
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40th anniversary of parenteral nutrition in Poland

The celebration of the 40th anniversary of parenteral nutrition in Poland will be held on October 5 at the SPSK of Prof. W. Orlowski CMKP in Warsaw. The celebration will focus on achievements in the field of nutrition therapy and the merits of improving the situation of Polish patients. Among the...

Sept. 29, 2023
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NFZ reminds: Students, take care of your health insurance

The academic year is about to begin. Young people and their parents, in the flurry of things, fail to remember a very important issue: health insurance. Its absence comes to light at the time of illness, when the clinic or hospital bills for treatment. The National Health Service reminds what...

Sept. 29, 2023