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Advances in breast cancer treatment must go hand in hand with modern rehabilitation

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.

June 7, 2023
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Early breast cancer: prevention, patient support, rehabilitation. What is important to know?

"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.

June 7, 2023
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For the health of Poles. The Ministry of Health launches a campaign

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.

June 7, 2023
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Pro-healthy holiday half-schools. More than 150,000 children will be supported by specialists

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...

June 7, 2023
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Patient safety. WHO on adverse event reporting

The Safe Patient Foundation has shared a translated version of WHO documents on procedures and conduct to improve patient safety.

June 7, 2023
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Hemophilia patients need innovative therapies

- 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...

June 7, 2023
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Malgorzata Rozenek-Majdan: we should help those who want to become parents. Next week, the first reading of the citizen's bill on in vitro

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...

June 6, 2023
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Zapowiedź dużej reformy prawa farmaceutycznego w Unii Europejskiej

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...

June 6, 2023
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Elizabeth Kozik: Kidney cancer patients need adjuvant therapy

- 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...

June 6, 2023
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Mandatory electronic vaccination card and fines for evaders. The Health Ministry is preparing an amendment

- 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...

June 6, 2023
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Science in Poland: the future of research institutes

"DEKALOG - the future of research institutes in Poland".- Research institutes are not about history, but first and foremost about the future," Prof. Henryk Skarzynski, chairman of the Council of the Main Council of Research Institutes, said at the 30th anniversary celebration. From this...

June 5, 2023
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There is a list of priority areas of specialization for nurses and midwives

The Ministry of Health has published a list of priority areas of specialization for nurses and midwives that will be eligible for funding in 2023, broken down by province and taking into account the number of training places and editions in the province. This list will form the basis for...

June 5, 2023
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Lublin: Salmonella in a kindergarten. 14 children poisoned

Salmonella poisoning occurred in one of the kindergartens in Biała Podlaska (Lublin voivodeship), reports the sanitary inspectorate. One employee of the facility and 14 children were poisoned. Two of them were hospitalized.

June 5, 2023
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The seasonal LPR base in Zegrze has started work

The Air Ambulance base in Zegrze Pomorskie (West Pomeranian Voivodeship) has resumed seasonal operations. The team will be on duty at the base until September 5.

June 5, 2023
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Identification hospital wristbands

They are placed on the patient's hands or other areas. They are used to identify the patient and his/her current therapeutic needs such as illness, medications used, treatments required, etc.So far, bar codes have been used, but an amendment to the Patients' Rights Act proposes putting names,...

June 5, 2023
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Will we become extinct?

An acquaintance (incidentally, a former deputy minister of health) once told me a story from his postgraduate internship in obstetrics. Lo and behold, the orderly telephoned him and invited him to the delivery room: "come on Sir, a unique case, an old primary, 28 years old!". As we know, there...

June 3, 2023
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What can Poles do to help them quit smoking?

We recently celebrated World No Cigarette Day. We asked Minister Krzysztof Łanda during the 2nd Men's Health Congress whether we have the chance to have such a holiday - for health - on a daily basis. Global figures from the World Health Organization show that eight million people die each year...

June 2, 2023
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Diversity Festival at WUM

Warsaw Medical University invites Warsaw residents to a unique event, Diversity x WUM - FESTIVAL OF DIVERSITY, organized by the university's international students.

June 2, 2023
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Security update and new features in myIKP app

An update to the myIKP app is now available on the App Store and Google Play. It's about renewing a valid security certificate and introducing additional features, such as making it easier to contact your clinic or the option to check the expiration date of medicines in your home medicine cabinet.

June 2, 2023
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Disclosure of ICU patient's personal data. We know the position of the hospital and the President of the Office for Personal Data Protection

The Ombudsman is addressing the President of the Office for Personal Data Protection and the director of the Regional Specialized Hospital in Legnica. The issue is the disclosure of the personal data of the ICU patient and the complainant.

June 2, 2023
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HPV vaccination has already begun. There are the first vaccinated

More than 600 children aged 12 and 13 have been vaccinated on the first day that the free and unrestricted HPV vaccines were made available, reports Health Minister Adam Niedzielski. There are plenty of free appointments.

June 2, 2023