More than PLN 1.8 billion will be allocated in 2023 to standardize the employment of psychologists, educators, speech therapists, pedagogical therapists and special educators in mainstream schools, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced during a press conference at the School and...
“This year has started with very good news for us. This is what we have been striving for for many years. The Ministry of Health has lifted restrictions on the duration of biological therapy. Until now, patients with ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease could receive treatment for one or two...
– This year will go down in the history of Polish diabetology as a breakthrough year. Lots of good things happened. We are experiencing a revolution when it comes to the concept of treatment and access to new drugs. From May to September, the Ministry of Health made decisions extending the...
- We currently have three fully free vaccinations reimbursed for seniors. These are flu vaccination, pneumococcal vaccination and, of course, COVID-19. One would like to see more free vaccinations on the list, because after the COVID-19 pandemic, we have a surge in this part of the pharmaceutical...
Fake news spreads in the public space just like viruses. What constitutes their strength and what is the power of influence? Dr. Jan Zając, CEO of Sotrender, explains this in an interview with Medexpress.
At the European level, clearly issue an intensified joint effort by organizations such as the European Brain Council, the European Academy of Neurology, the European Psychiatric Association, EFNA, among others, to develop and adopt policy recommendations by the European Parliament and the...
W pierwszym tygodniu grudnia obchodzimy Europejski Tydzień Autyzmu, który ma na celu zwiększanie świadomości na temat spektrum autyzmu i potrzeb osób z tym zaburzeniem. Gościem Iwony Schymalli jest psycholog, rządowy konsultant ds. autyzmu, dr Anna Budzińska z Fundacji Instytut Wspomagania...
The Christmas atmosphere is conducive to committing sins.... The most common one is intemperance in eating and drinking. From its effects we often defend ourselves by securing states of supplements to facilitate digestion. All these preparations have a major challenge. The full stomach, into...
How to develop optimal pathways for patients with cardio-renal-metabolic syndrome (CRM) in the Polish health care system? We discuss this with Dr. Magdalena Wladysiuk, vice president of HTA Consulting and president of CEESTAHC.
On November 5, 1985, Professor Zbigniew Religa performed Poland's first successful heart transplant. The operation took place at the then Provincial Cardiology Center) in Zabrze, today it is the Silesian Center for Heart Diseases.
- Disposable e-cigarettes, which are mainly manufactured in China, have hit the market in the millions, if not tens or hundreds of millions. They have been imported into the European Union market, including Poland. These are cigarettes that use the worst, cheapest components, including lithium...
Education among young people is key. It is a common belief, for example, that beer is not alcohol and that it is part of a lifestyle. Deputy Health Minister Wojciech Konieczny and President of the Polish Public Health Association Professor Andrzej Fal talk about the challenges and possible...
- There are changes in the ecosystem all the time, and we can never say that the situation is fully controlled. Natural disasters, such as a hurricane or flood, cause a sudden increase in the epidemiological threat. In the case of Poland, this issue has been taken very seriously in my opinion....
- Unfortunately, for several years we have had a discrepancy in how many people are vaccinated and how many should be vaccinated. However, it is worth noting that the vaccination status of the population aged 0-19, the one that should be vaccinated according to the calendar, is at a satisfactory...
- For the past few years, we have fortunately had a movement to involve not only doctors in vaccination, but also the personnel who work with them: nurses, midwives and, more recently, pharmacists. This is an excellent movement in the context of disenchanting vaccinations," he said in an...
The vast majority of mushrooms are not edible, but neither are they poisonous. However, relying on folk ways to identify dangerous species can end tragically. We spoke with Dr. Michał Sutkowski, president-elect of the College of Family Physicians in Poland and associate dean of the Faculty of...
- PCPs have been given tools and diagnostic capabilities at their facilities. It's a much broader package of tests, including those that were previously only available in outpatient specialty care," Magdalena Kolodziej, president of the We Patients Foundation, says in an interview with Medexpress...
- It is worth getting vaccinated. Keep in mind that especially in seniors, immunity is declining. It is similarly weak as in children, who do not yet have a mature immune response. Seniors, on the other hand, unfortunately, already have immune system cells at an advanced age - weaker - and...
It will reduce the time for processing reimbursement applications by a third and be about half a million zlotys cheaper for the responsible entity in the case of cardiovascular drugs with well-established efficacy. The Health Ministry has announced a list of substances covered by such a...
- When someone reaches the appropriate age, for example, our system will automatically issue a referral and generate this information. The patient just needs to go for the vaccination. We started a few years ago with a low response rate. Today, about 50 percent of people from such referrals...
- Signals of financial problems have been reaching us for some time, but the last few weeks show that these are no longer speculations, but real and tangible consequences," says Magdalena Kolodziej, president of the We Patients Foundation, about the difficult financial situation at the NFZ....
- Only 10-15 percent of doctors vaccinate against influenza. People see that doctors don't vaccinate, and if we don't set an example for them, we can't require our patients to be willing to vaccinate. The medical community, unfortunately, is a bit of a barrier when it comes to vaccination...
How can the Polish legal system effectively enforce the obligation to vaccinate children and how to deal with the rising tide of misinformation about vaccinations, we asked attorney Katarzyna Czyzewska of Czyzewscy Kancelaria Adwokacka.
Coronaviruses, like influenza viruses, are subject to constant mutation, which gives rise to the need to develop new vaccine variants. We are currently waiting for a new reimbursable vaccine against COVID-19 to become available in Poland, but how long will it take? We asked the Chief Sanitary...
- Thanks to the fact that it is now possible to perform at least a number of preliminary examinations in the PCP, it is possible to assess the patient's health status and determine whether he necessarily requires specialized care or broader diagnosis, or whether he can be successfully managed by...
- Not only do we have an aging population, but there are more and more people in late old age. This is happening as a result of people from the post-war baby boom entering senior age. This is a challenge for the labor market, but also for the health care system, the pension system. The average...
- We have 26 million sick leaves in a year, and there are 16 million economically active people in Poland. The average layoff lasts 11 days. This is a huge loss of labor resources. ZUS, as part of its statutory tasks, conducts rehabilitation. We want people to be able to return to the labor...
- Health education is very important, but we practitioners say it is not enough. Very strong measures are needed. One of the most important topics now is child and adolescent obesity. It would be enough to extract electronic data from a child's health booklet, such as the child's height, weight...
About 90,000 people die each year in Poland from hypertension. It turns out that at the root of the problem lies primarily non-adherence to therapeutic recommendations. Servier has launched a campaign with an emphasis precisely on adherence. Practical materials are to teach patients how to take...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
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