The following announcement was published today on the Patient Ombudsman's website:One important area prioritized by the Patient Ombudsman is the improvement of the situation of psychiatric patients, including those who are incapacitated and their caregivers, who often do not know either who their...
The Military Medical Institute - National Research Institute has begun piloting a humanitarian aid program implemented by the Republic of Poland and the Kingdom of Jordan.
Poland supported the Belgian government's request to the European Commission on May 2. - This is an important step towards increasing drug safety for Polish patients as well," says Krzysztof Kopeć, president of the PZPPF.
The next meeting of the AOTMiT Transparency Council is taking place on May 8.
The 27th Warsaw Course on Cardiovascular Interventions (WCCI) Workshop, organized by the Foundation for the Support of Interventional Cardiology under the auspices of the Association of Cardiovascular Interventions of the Polish Society of Cardiology and in cooperation with EAPCI and EuroPCR, was...
The Health Ministry is preparing a statute for the National Oncology Council. A draft regulation on the matter has been sent for consultation.
Warsaw's leading universities have signed a letter of intent to establish a new two-year master's degree program. The studies are aimed at future managers in the health care system. The studies will be jointly conducted by WUM and SGH.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first RSV vaccine. The product is registered for the prevention of RSV-induced lower respiratory tract disease in people 60 years of age and older.
Even if you observe potassium deficiencies in yourself, you should be careful with potassium supplementation, because an overdose is very dangerous - the result can be, for example, cardiac arrhythmias, respiratory muscle weakness, or nervous system disorders.
Fibromyalgia is a disease that is characterized by chronic pain in the muscles and soft tissues. Its symptoms also include fatigue and muscle stiffness. This disease occurs primarily in middle-aged women, and its causes are still not fully understood. In Poland, fibromyalgia is diagnosed based on...
An interview with Deputy Health Minister Maciej Miłkowski about possible changes in access to early breast cancer treatment.
Interview with Patient Ombudsman Bartholomew Chmielowiec
May 5 marks the European Day against Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities and the Day of Dignity for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities. This is an opportunity to draw public attention to the problems and challenges faced by people with disabilities in their daily lives and work.
An interview with Dr. Ariel Liebert, assistant professor in the Department of Gastroenterology and Nutritional Disorders at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Medical College in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
May's high school graduation marathon has begun - and at the start of it, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski, wishing high school graduates good luck, encouraged them to consider medical studies. Specifically - on medical faculties, where, as he stressed in his twitter post, 11,000 places will be...
Over the past five years, the number of mandatory vaccination evasions has doubled, and since 2010, it has increased more than 21 times. - When I was learning the profession I was told that we would only read about diseases like measles in textbooks. This is not true, because measles happens more...
The health ministry provided data for the period from April 27, 2023 to May 03, 2023. We have 1,272 (including 273 re-infections) confirmed cases of coronavirus infection from the provinces:Mazovia (208),Lublin (119),Malopolska (117),Silesia (97),West Pomerania (97),Greater Poland (74),Lower...
The Health Ministry has published a draft amendment to the regulations on online prescribing. This is a long-announced response to the activities of so-called prescribers.
A draft amendment to the regulation, introducing changes in the rules for issuing prescriptions for drugs in the category of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, category 1 precursors and preparations containing these drugs or substances, has been submitted for public consultation....
Brain fog is a common experience faced by a not inconsiderable number of people recovering from COVID-19. Symptoms of brain fog usually include impaired concentration, sometimes disorientation of greater or lesser severity, fuzzy thoughts, forgetting, losing and forgetting words, and mental fatigue.
When pharmacological management is ineffective in the treatment of epilepsy, one method of non-pharmacological therapy is considered - the ketogenic diet. Not everyone knows that it is implemented in children with drug-resistant epilepsy, that is, in situations where the drugs used do not have...
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