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...
- Cardiovascular diseases are a very serious problem, not only in Poland, but throughout the European Union. In Poland, in people under 65, these diseases are still responsible for the largest number of deaths. We have some progress, as life expectancy has lengthened over the past two decades. In...
- An anxious patient can be transformed into a cooperative patient who will then be treated in a standardized manner. These techniques are not just reserved for children and adolescents. They can and should also be implemented for adult people who are so afraid of the dentist that they...
- A patient with Friedriech's ataxia develops the so-called ataxia symptom. (...) This disease unfortunately progresses and ends in premature death. Patients generally pass away in the fourth or fifth decade of life," Prof. Anna Potulska-Chromik of the Department of Neurology at the Medical...
- It would be worthwhile to expand the indications and simplify the path to get into the drug program. These elements are also reported to us by patients themselves. They say that they suffer from depression, nothing helps them, but for some reason they cannot get into this program. So the change...
Press conference by Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna on the draft of the new list of reimbursed drugs as of October 1, 2024.
We talk to Alicia Lisowska, president of the Epi-Bohater Foundation, about the results of a study on the stigmatization of patients with central nervous system disorders.
- The life cycle of an innovation is like the life cycle of a product. He very often grows rapidly. We have a lot of information in recent years about services and products that optimize the health care system. Some of them prove themselves clinically and enter everyday use. Such solutions allow...
- We messed up our children's world and now we have to fix it quickly. There is no time to spread this out over 10 years. This should be an absolute priority in Poland, also in the context of our presidency of the European Union," said Anna Partyka-Opiela, a partner in the law firm Rymarz, Zdort,...
We ask Prof. Dominika Dudek, president of the Polish Psychiatric Association, about the study's findings on the stigmatization of patients with central nervous system disorders.
- Vaccination in schools is certainly a good thing, too. It's good that principals don't hinder this, that they recommend vaccinations and give the green light to conduct vaccinations," said Professor Teresa Jackowska, president of the Polish Pediatric Society, in an interview with Medexpress...
- Children are very much affected by returning to school. It's often a new environment for them, and they don't know if the classmates they sat in the bench with will still want to sit with them. We adults have a big challenge ahead of us to support our children against the tide of peer...
- I have set as my goal the introduction of a law on the medical physics profession. I know how important medical physicists are in the health care system. They are the ones in cancer hospitals, along with doctors, who set the treatment dose or oncology equipment. They are, in fact, direct...
- Unfortunately, we most often meet the patient only at the stage of illness, and even more often when there are already complications in the form of a heart attack, stroke or other serious conditions, sometimes leading to disability. It is important that we meet the patient more often at the...
- The needs for molecular diagnostics are very urgent and met only to a certain extent. We must divide patients who need targeted therapy and require molecular diagnostics into two groups. The first is oncology patients, who have reimbursed high-throughput genomic testing or next-generation...
- The last few years have been a huge breakthrough in Poland and the world. We have coped with the implementation of such large elements as e-prescription, for example. In addition, during these few years, we have collected a huge amount of data, for example, from half a billion e-prescriptions...
Dr hab. n. med. Michał Brzeziński z Katedry i Kliniki Pediatrii, Gastroenterologii, Alergologii i Żywienia Dzieci GUMed alarmuje, że świadomie zmierzamy w kierunku zdrowotnej katastrofy. Jego zdaniem konieczna jest wielowymiarowa strategia, która obejmuje edukację zdrowotną, zmianę nawyków...
Marzena Kluszczynska of the STOMAlife Foundation talks about breaking taboos and educating children and teaching staff.
Nutrition awareness certainly requires not only prevention, educational activities, but also the introduction of nutritional and dietary advice into the basket of guaranteed services, both for children with chronic diseases such as diabetes, obesity and overweight, as well as for parents of...
- We are in the process of proceeding with amendments to ban the sale of all such products, both nicotine-containing and nicotine-free, until the age of 18. Currently, the law only talks about nicotine. There are harmful substances in these disposable nicotine-free inhalation devices as well,"...
- It is important that we start investing in our body, because it is our health that will be with us for life. If we want to enjoy it for a long time, we should start with this investment. My generation was the backyard generation, today is the car seat generation, because we drive our children...
Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna briefed hospital directors, prescribers and department heads on the current legal regulations regarding access to the abortion procedure.
- We have focused a lot over the decades on diseases, on how to prevent them as well, but especially on how to treat them, how to proceed, how to rehabilitate them. This is very important and this has often been neglected as well, but without the element of education we won't move said Deputy...
- We would always like more. We need to change various things organizationally to make health care in this money more patient-friendly," Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna said about the planned budget for health care in Piasecki's Talk program on TVN24. - These are funds that had to be...
"In 2023, 659 people in Poland contracted tick-borne encephalitis. 35-58 percent of patients with central nervous system involvement develop permanent neurological complications," the Health Ministry warns. In addition to the CSE, the result of a tick bite can be Lyme disease. What can be done to...
- Patients with hemato-oncology diseases deserve to be treated with the latest methods, the parlementarians who spoke in a poll conducted by Medexpress in the parliamentary corridors agree. Among other things, we asked them about the importance of effective use of financial inputs in this field...
- Finding out that a child has cancer is the worst situation in a person's life that can happen to him. There is no single formula for how to convey such information. I've been working for more than 20 years, and I always thought it was better to tell the truth. Now I think it's not. Not everyone...
The prostate gland is a puzzling structure. Why does a man need a prostate, What functions does it perform and what can men do to make the prostate serve them for years - in an interview with editor Bożena Stasiak tells Professor Jakub Zolnierek.
We talk about the treatment and quality of life of hemophilia patients with hemophilia with Prof. Andrzej Mital of UCK Gdansk Medical University.
- I am safe. I live and act as if I don't have this disease," says Wojciech Mościbrodzki, a patient with hemophilia A.
An interview with Katarzyna Lisowska, president of the Per Humanus Foundation.
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