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...
- 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.
Holger Pfeiffer, president of Bayer in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, and head of the Pharmaceuticals division in the region, talks about innovation, artificial intelligence, and EU law reform.
In fact, in sexology, the patient is the couple, and then it's full democracy," said sexologist Dr. Stanislaw Dulko in an interview with Bozena Stasiak. Who is more ashamed of visiting a sexologist? Is this shame justified?
The beginning of the school year is a good time to check your child's vision. How to recognize that a child sees worse and what is the prevention of myopia, says Joanna Przeździecka-Dołyk, MD, Department and Clinic of Ophthalmology, Wroclaw University of Medical Sciences, in an interview with...
Friedreich's Ataxia is a rare, progressive neurological disease that attacks the nervous system and muscles. Being diagnosed with this disease is a life-changing moment that changes lives forever. Those affected by Friedreich's Ataxia often face many challenges, both physical and mental. We talk...
O tym jak choroba wpływa na życie całej rodziny mówi w rozmowie z Medexpressem Teresa Brzozowska-Nieczaj, mama Kacpra i Karola - bliźniaków chorujących na ataksję Friedricha.
- 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.
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