Scientists from Cambridge created mouse embryos without the use of eggs or sperm, which developed the nucleus of the brain and the beating heart. This achievement can help you understand the earliest stages of organ development and why some pregnancies fail.
HCV is running quietly. Such infectious diseases should be discussed as often as possible, says Marzanna Bieńkowska from the Office of the Patient Ombudsman.
HCV is asymptomatic in 80% of cases. Currently, there are approximately 150,000 undiagnosed people in Poland. It is a time bomb with delayed ignition - says Urszula Jaworska, president of the Urszula Jaworska Foundation. Today - on World Hepatitis Day - we talk to Urszula Jaworska about what must...
There is a record heat wave in Europe. Governments of other countries issue health warnings. What is the risk of extreme heat?
The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported the current record of monkey pox. Currently, more than 6,000 cases of infection are known from 58 countries.
As researchers from Flinders University and the University of South Australia discovered, analysis of eye retinas can reveal clear signals for both attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Although the prognosis for early breast cancer HR +, HER2- is good, 20-30% of patients may develop an incurable metastatic disease. A new treatment option is available for these patients.
On June 15 this year. a team of interventional radiologists from the 2nd Department of Radiology of UCK WUM, led by prof. Olgierda Rowiński conducted the first lung cancer cryoablation procedure in Poland. The team was composed of: Krzysztof Milczarek, Dariusz Konecki and Grzegorz Rosiak...
May is recognized as the World Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month. We discuss the current situation of patients with the special editor of Medexpress, president Waldemar Majek from the Polish Society for Fighting Cystic Fibrosis.
The Lancet Neurology published the results of the phase 3b NOVA study assessing the effectiveness of natalizumab administered every six weeks in the treatment of patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis.
Inequalities in health cover many areas. One of them is access to digital tools of the healthcare system. As the Ombudsman for Patients' Rights, Minister Bartłomej Chmielowiec - today's special publisher of Medexpress said - the future of patients is closely related to new solutions.
The number of newly diagnosed blood cancers in adults and children in Poland is approx. 9 thousand. annually, which accounts for approx. 5.5% of all malignant neoplasms in our country. The group of people diagnosed with these cancers is very wide, and the risk of developing the disease clearly...
Hematooncology deals with the treatment of neoplastic diseases related to blood and the production of its components - white cells, red cells, platelets and plasma. Each year in Poland, about 9,000 are diagnosed. children and adults with these tumors. On May 28, we will celebrate the World Blood...
With prof. Iwona Schymalla talks with Dorota Zozulińska-Ziółkiewicz, president of the Polish Diabetes Society.
- Obesity is a serious, insidious chronic disease that should be treated with all available methods - says Prof. Paweł Bogdański, head of the Chair and Department of Obesity Treatment, Metabolic Disorders and Clinical Dietetics of the Medical University of Poznań.
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic, recurrent inflammatory skin disease characterized by morphological heterogeneity, including symptoms, distribution and severity, time course, and quality of life. Often, this disease is accompanied by other diseases, and the response to treatment is also very...
Scientists from the British Pharmacological Society and the Royal College of Physicians say a genetic test can predict how a given drug will work in the human body. The field of drug matching to DNA is known as pharmacogenomics.
Psychedelics may find use in treating anxiety, depression, stress disorders, addiction, and other mental health problems. However, for this to happen, rigorous research and application methods must be developed.
Work is underway to open up new research opportunities for heart regeneration while reducing the use of live animals in research.
As reported in the American media, a young patient, a boy named Easton, made history of medical achievements, becoming the first person in the world to undergo a heart and thymus transplant.
A preclinical study in mice suggests that blocking a major inflammatory pathway that is activated in pancreatic cancer makes tumors vulnerable to chemotherapy and a type of immunotherapy that stimulates the immune system's T cells to attack the cancer cells. The therapy more than doubled survival...
We talk to prof. Sebastian Giebel, hematologist, head of the Clinic of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Oncohematology of the National Oncology Institute Maria Skłodowskiej-Curie, Branch in Gliwice, president of the Association of the Polish Group for the Treatment of Adult Leukemia PALG.
The results of an international, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase III clinical trial indicate that the addition of the androgen receptor inhibitor darolutamide to androgen deprivation therapy and chemotherapy prolongs the survival of men with metastatic, hormone-sensitive...
Participation in Saturday's 50 km skiing run ended very painfully for 24-year-old Remi Lindholm. Thirty-degree frost and a strong wind caused the Finnish Olympian to frostbite the penis. In most cases, frostbite of the penis is confined to the foreskin, but there are cases involving the entire...
It is widely known that a plant-based diet is very good for the heart and improves overall health, and the benefits for the planet cannot be forgotten. However, according to a recent study by British scientists published in the journal Frontiers in Nutrition, eating vegetables, especially cooked,...
Our immune system has the potential to find and destroy cancer cells. However, cancer cells use tricks to avoid the immune system's response. Professor Douglas Fearon of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and ZhiKai Wang of the University of Science and Technology of China found one such trick....
Previous research by scientists from Johns Hopkins Medicine found that treatment with psilocybin relieved symptoms of major depressive disorder in adults for up to a month. Now, the results of a follow-up study indicate that psychotherapy-assisted treatment with psilocybin produces significant...
The patient from the United States is the third person in the world and the first woman to be cured of HIV.
New research shows that ixabepilone together with bevacizumab (IXA + BEV) is a well-tolerated, effective combination in the treatment of platinum-resistant ovarian cancer / taxanes. The use of the combination IXA + BEV gave better results in both progression-free time and overall survival than...
A study published by Nature found that the use of CAR-T cell gene therapy was effective in treating leukemia and keeping the disease in remission for over 10 years in two people.
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