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Zielonogórska Porozumienie Zielonogórskie: Coordinated care instead of bonuses for doctors generates losses

The coordinated care program was supposed to bring better quality services to patients, but instead it is starting to generate financial problems for PCP clinics. Despite the fact that already one-third of POZ clinics have joined the program, in many regions the National Health Service has still...

Sept. 30, 2024
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AOTMiT: Transparency Council on lung cancer and chronic kidney disease, among others

On Monday, September 30, the next meeting of the Transparency Council.

Sept. 30, 2024
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There is a shortfall of 7-8 billion zlotys

By the end of September and by early October at the latest, the National Health Fund will settle with hospitals all unlimited services performed in the second quarter, Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna assured. She reiterated the promise, made on Thursday during the General Assembly of the Union...

Sept. 27, 2024
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SMA: One drug administration makes it possible for patients and their families to forget about the disease

Will the Ministry of Health meet the demand of the pediatric neurology medical community and extend the availability of gene therapy to children whose screening tests found four copies of the SMN2 gene?

Sept. 27, 2024
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HPV vaccination in schools. GIS: these are the very benefits

- For parents, the possibility of vaccinating their children in schools is a great convenience, a convenience. I encourage parents to contact school principals, teachers and the health inspection," said Chief Sanitary Inspector Dr. Pawel Grzesiowski in an interview with Medexpress during the...

Sept. 27, 2024
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Izabela Leszczyna: A new hospital is needed in Nysa

- We are discussing how to rebuild the Nysa hospital in another location. This is my dream, because we want to avoid in the future such a situation as we faced during the floods. What is needed is a modern center, for the 21st century," said Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna in the program One on...

Sept. 27, 2024
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Prof. Rafal Krenke is the new rector of WUM.

"Common goals, common actions. A candidate of dialogue," this was the motto of Prof. Rafal Krenke, MD, who will be Rector of the Medical University of Warsaw for the 2024-2028 term. He received an absolute majority of votes in the first voting period. To date, Prof. Rafal Krenke has served as...

Sept. 27, 2024
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RETINA WEEK 2024

Retina Week is International Retinal Disease Awareness Week, celebrated annually in the last week of September. It's an important time to focus on eye health through educational activities about the prevention and treatment of retinal diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and...

Sept. 26, 2024
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Celebrate National Pharmacist Day

Polish pharmacists are celebrating their holiday today. At the end of 2023, 11.5 thousand pharmacies (public and company pharmacies) and 1.1 thousand pharmacy points were in operation, with 57.8 thousand master pharmacists and pharmacy technicians working there, according to data from the Central...

Sept. 26, 2024
Anna Fijałkowska

Polish children are not physically fit. Only 6 percent know how to perform basic exercises

- Only 6 percent of Polish children in the first years of elementary school are fit. And I'm not talking about physical activity, just the ability to do basic physical exercises. Then these kids don't want to exercise in PE classes. This is a problem that is very difficult to solve, but it's a...

Sept. 26, 2024
Dr n. med. Marek Derkacz
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Fatigue that won't go away: How to win against Long COVID and CFS?

It would seem that fatigue is such a temporary condition that can be dealt with after a long day at work or a sleepless night. But what if this fatigue becomes an inseparable companion in life, closing the door to daily joys and simple pleasures? What if every morning brings not the desired...

Sept. 26, 2024
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Depressive episodes in bipolar disorder. Pediatric population needs reimbursement

- We have diagnoses such as bipolar affective disorder, schizophrenia, and depressive episodes of varying severity that require pharmacotherapy. Bipolar affective disorder and schizophrenia absolutely require it to sort out the biology of the central nervous system. This is where we have a...

Sept. 26, 2024
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Well-functioning epidemiological surveillance lowers health care costs

Epidemiological surveillance is one of the main sources of information on the incidence of notifiable and registerable infectious diseases, including invasive bacterial diseases, emphasize the participants of the conference "Diagnosis of the functioning of epidemiological surveillance in Poland...

Sept. 26, 2024
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Skin regeneration after summer - the most popular treatments chosen by Polish women and men

After the busy holiday season, when the skin is exposed to the sun, chlorinated water and salty seawater, more and more Polish women and men are opting for skin care treatments. Autumn is the perfect time for skin regeneration and preventive dermatological examinations. Among the most popular...

Sept. 25, 2024
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Pain treatment in Poland can be more effective

- An alternative to drug treatment may be neurosurgical treatment, including the use of spinal stimulators, says Prof. Tomasz Mandat, head of the Nervous System Tumor Clinic, National Cancer Institute in Warsaw.

Sept. 25, 2024
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Popular tablets with honey and lemon withdrawn from the market in Poland

Chief Pharmaceutical Inspector halts sale of popular drug. Check the batch number.

Sept. 25, 2024
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Multiregeneration for the whole family

Modern skin care requires cosmetics that not only moisturize, but also promote regeneration, reduce irritation and protect against external factors.

Sept. 24, 2024
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Parliamentary Group on SMA - live

Gene therapy program for children with spinal muscular atrophy

Sept. 24, 2024
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Czy czeka nas kryzys? Kryzys już tu jest

W poniedziałkowym posiedzeniu Zespołu Trójstronnego ds. Ochrony Zdrowia miała wziąć udział minister Izabela Leszczyna. Nie wzięła, z powodu obowiązków związanych z powodzią. Niewątpliwie kataklizm, jaki przeszedł przez południowo-zachodnią Polskę musi mieć priorytet, ale nie można zapominać, że...

Sept. 24, 2024
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Holger Pfeiffer: We are at a very important moment for the pharmaceutical industry in Europe

Holger Pfeiffer, president of Bayer in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, and head of the Pharmaceuticals division in the region, talks about innovation, artificial intelligence, and EU law reform.

Sept. 24, 2024
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Emergency contraception: New data from the eHealth Center

The latest data from the eHealth Center for the May-August period provide information on the use of emergency contraception. The largest number of prescriptions for emergency contraception were issued to women aged 31-40, who filled as many as 3402 prescriptions. Younger patients, aged 19-24,...

Sept. 24, 2024