This is a chance for quick diagnosis for millions of patients. Scientists from the Department of Histology and Embryology of the Medical University of Warsaw have developed a test that can detect endometriosis. The result appears after a few days. Currently, the road to diagnosis takes several...
The Parliamentary Health Committee issued a positive opinion on the draft act on clinical trials. Amendments have been included in it, thanks to which nurses and midwives will be able to e.g. act as the principal investigator.
Glomerulonephritis (Glomerulonephritis) is a rare and ultra-rare disease that can lead to kidney failure. The only way to diagnose the disease is a biopsy. Researchers want to prevent complications of the procedure in order to be able to diagnose kidney diseases earlier.
Dissemination of influenza vaccination, isolation of people showing signs of infection and special protection against infection of people from risk groups. Among others, such recommendations were issued by the Council of Experts of the Supreme Medical Chamber in connection with the season of...
APRIL On April 1, the implementation of the pilot drug reviews began. The pilot project provides for three contacts between the pharmacist and the patient, the effect of which is to develop an individual plan of pharmaceutical care for the patient and a plan to solve all detected real or...
Cardiologists from the Silesian Center for Heart Diseases in Zabrze implanted a electrodeless pacemaker in a patient with an extremely rare heart defect for the first time in Poland.
- In women with selenium deficiency, which in Poland constitute one third of the general female population, supplementation of this element allows for a tenfold reduction in mortality, regardless of the cause - said in an interview for TVP3 Szczecin, Prof. Jan Lubiński, head of the Department of...
– At the congress in San Antonio, the results of research in HER2 positive breast cancer were presented. They confirmed the role of trastuzumab derukstecan in the treatment. It has been shown that it extends the overall survival time in patients who received this drug in the treatment of...
With Anna Charko - co-founder of the People and Medicine Foundation - we talk about the need to take care of mental health hygiene and the benefits of psychological support during the treatment of a chronic disease.
The guest of Medexpress is prof. Krzysztof Tomasiewicz, President of the Polish Group of HCV Experts, Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases SPSK No. 1 in Lublin.
– We are introducing several loyalty solutions. The first was related to residency, the second to a student loan, which can be written off if you work for about 10 years in the public health care system - said Health Minister Adam Niedzielski in an interview with RMF, referring to the words of...
The 15th Scientific Conference of the Prevention and Epidemiology Section of the Polish Cardiac Society "Preventive Cardiology 2022 - guidelines, doubts, hot topics" is the largest and most interesting conference in Poland on the prevention of heart and vascular diseases.
How does a man feel when he is 70 years old or older? If you're not a senior, it's hard to imagine. Unless ... an old age simulator is worn. Contrary to popular belief, using it is not pleasant. It's an experience that literally changes everything. Students of the Medical University of Silesia in...
Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin received phantoms for teaching enteral nutrition. They will be used by students of nursing, dietetics and clinical dietetics and obstetrics, as well as pharmacy and medicine. The equipment donated by the Nutricia Foundation will go to the Medical...
The level of physical activity of Polish children is dramatically low, according to research under the fourth edition of the international project "Active Healthy Kids". The "report on the state of physical activity of children and adolescents in Poland" was published.
The first in Poland treatment of kidney stones in an adult using the Avicenna robotic system was carried out at the Urology Clinic of the Medical University of Warsaw, the Infant Jesus Clinical Hospital, UCK, Medical University of Warsaw.
Hospital of dr. Antoni Jurasz in Bydgoszcz, Poland is the second in Poland to start a program of conductive and mixed hearing loss treatment using an innovative active bone implant. It is one of the most modern medical solutions in the treatment of hearing disorders.
The most modern clinical trial center in Europe has been opened at Gładka Street in Warsaw. At this point, patients can receive treatment using innovative therapeutic options that could be reimbursed even in a few years. The opening of the new headquarters of the clinical research unit, which has...
Polish researchers, together with scientists from Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands, assessed the impact of screening colonoscopy on the reduction of incidence and death from colorectal cancer. The New England Journal of Medicine published the results of the NORDICC study conducted in 4...
At least half a million cancer patients in Poland struggle with limb lymphoedema. The most common cause of this disease is damage to the lymphatic system in the treatment of neoplastic diseases (as a result of surgery to remove lymph nodes) and radiotherapy. The swelling can lead to disability...
Lecanemab is expected to work in Alzheimer's disease by reducing the build-up of sticky plaques known as beta amyloid in the brain. This is one of the likely causes of the development of this disease. Research conducted on a group of almost 1.8 thousand patients with early-stage Alzheimer's...
- Caring for the quality of education should be a priority in our next year of activity - said Minister of Health Adam Niedzielski during the inauguration of the academic year at the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice.
From the beginning of the next academic year, the Catholic University of Lublin will lead the field of medicine. It is still unknown where the university's clinical hospital will be located. The university authorities asked the Marshal of the Lublin Province, Jarosław Stawiarski, for help in...
Professor Mariusz Kuśmierczyk and a team of cardiac surgeons performed the first implantation of an artificial ventricle at the Medical University of Warsaw. It is an ultramodern device of the new generation Heartmate 3.
- The methods of treating hemophilia at our disposal in Poland do not differ from European standards. They make it possible to treat patients with missing coagulation factors. From a purely surgical point of view, the procedure does not differ from the one we perform in patients without blood...
The European Medicines Agency and the Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA) have issued a joint statement confirming that biosimilars approved in the European Union are interchangeable with reference medicines or equivalent biosimilars.
Doctors from the Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Interior and Administration in Warsaw performed the first kidney transplant in Poland using the Da Vinci robot. Until now, the device has been used in living donor kidney donation operations.
On September 27, at 5:30 p.m., there will be a free webinar on mental health for patients and their families. Prof. Marcin Wojnar- Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Clinic of the Medical University of Warsaw is one of the content supervisors of this event.
A team of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in collaboration with the University of Rochester, Mayo Clinic, and Massachusetts General Hospital, have developed an artificial intelligence model that can detect Parkinson's disease based on a subject's breathing pattern.
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