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...
Deputy Health Minister Marek Kos takes over from Maciej Miłkowski. What hopes and expectations do patients have? We ask Stanislaw Maćkowiak, president of the Federation of Polish Patients.
- Semen parameters are not something you can throw into an Internet browser asking for interpretation. Many men come to me completely healthy, but horrified by the results they have generated and interpreted for themselves. More often than not, I have good news for them," says Dr. Luke Kupis, a...
- We must not take away a sick person's hope, because sometimes it's the only thing they have," the well-known surgeon, Prof. Krzysztof Bielecki, says in the program Wyszło na Dzisiaj, referring to the issue of collections conducted to finance the treatment of seriously ill people, especially...
The image of the well-known surgeon, Professor Krzysztof Bielecki, has been used by fraudsters to, among other things, advertise a pseudo-drug with alleged anti-atherosclerotic effects. Materials using deep fake technology have also been used to promote other preparations with questionable...
Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna at a press conference on investment in psychiatry: The mental health crisis affects many of us, increasingly children and adolescents, so investment in mental health care has been a priority for me since the beginning of my tenure.
- Every lowered curb and every accessible toilet is something amazing," says Izabela Sopalska-Rybak, president and founder of the Kulawa Warszawa Foundation, who talks about what barriers people with disabilities face, what has changed for the better, and what needs improvement.
- We take a heart, put it in a device, connect it to various tubes and start it up. This heart has its own circulation in the coronary vessels and, suspended in this box, starts to beat. This causes a sensation," says Dr. Zygmunt Kalicinski, a cardiac surgeon and clinical transplantologist from...
An interview with Natalia Rospara, president of the LAL-D Patients Association.
- Those who are best prepared will gain, because it is necessary to prepare properly for the new regulations. Those who oversleep this moment, who will not keep up with the new regulations, will lose," says attorney Dariusz Tarabasz of Czyzewscy Law Firm in an interview with Medexpress,...
- We are still very far from the emergence of technologies such as the automated doctor, and perhaps we don't particularly need it at the moment. Medicine and the life sciences industry as a whole is quite un-digitized. We actually have problems with very mundane things, such as medical records,"...
– Leki ukierunkowane molekularnie znajdują zastosowanie w praktyce klinicznej, nie tylko w leczeniu chorych na zaawansowane raki płuca, przede wszystkim niedrobnokomórkowe, ale i w leczeniu uzupełniającym. Diagnostyka molekularna ma więc ogromne znaczenie – mówi w wywiadzie dla Medexpressu prof....
As of September 2025, a new subject - health education - will appear in schools, replacing upbringing for family life. What should be included in the core curriculum? We asked Dr. Wojciech Feleszko, a pediatrician, immunologist and pulmonologist, about this.
- Building a doctor-patient relationship is a multi-step process, which includes correct verbal communication. This translates into building trust and meeting therapeutic goals," says Dr. Patrick Poniewierza, MD, professor at Lazarski University and director of medical standards at PZU Health, in...
An interview with Dominik Zuk, a hybrid AI data management specialist.
An interview with Anna Ben Drissi, managing director of the Polish Society of Allergology.
An interview with Izabella Dessoulavy-Gładysz, president of the Foundation for Brain Health Mental Power.
Interview with Prof. Konrad Rejdak, president of the Polish Neurological Society
An interview with Dominik Kuc of the GrowSpace Foundation.
An interview with Dr. Michael Lis, head of the Department of Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, Diabetology, Nephrology at Czerniakowski Hospital in Warsaw.
The problem of monkeys is the problem of a laborer going to a construction site that no one controls, it's the problem of an office worker who drinks three monkeys in an underground garage when he has to go up to the 38th floor. No one controls this, no one thinks about it. Are the so-called...
- We know that these are very difficult issues. In the last term, we began to talk about these problems loudly and even shout about them," said Senate Speaker Malgorzata Kidawa-Błońska, opening a conference on supporting the mental health of children and young people through inclusive education.
The Association of the College of Family Physicians in Poland is once again holding its annual congress for family physicians and primary care physicians. - This is a provable celebration of family medicine," says Dr. Michal Sutkowski and invites you to the congress.
Interview with Deputy Minister of Health Wojciech Konieczny, conducted during the 8th Patient Empowerment Congress.
- Family medicine is a demanding specialty. We are doctors for everything. Someone will maliciously say that for nothing, but this is not the case, this should never be said. We are not "frontline" doctors, but those who have to go deeply into the somatic and psychosomatic sphere of the patient,...
- There is a singularization of old age. We observe this every day in geriatric wards. We have more and more patients who are lonely, have no indications for hospitalization, and there is nowhere to discharge them," said Prof. Tomasz Targowski, head of the Geriatrics Clinic and Polyclinic of the...
An interview with Prof. Piotr Kuna of the Medical University of Lodz.
Who is mainly affected by osteoporosis? What test is performed to detect it and how often should one undergo it? These questions, among others, were answered by MPs in a poll we conducted in the parliamentary corridors.
- We are so psychologically constructed that we attribute the right to dream to people who are healthy. We forget that people at the end of life also dream," says Mariola Kosowicz, MD, clinical psychologist and psychooncologist at the Psychooncology Outpatient Clinic at the Oncology Center in...
- Some men diagnosed with infertility fear that not only will their health be judged negatively, but that their masculinity will be called into question. This is misguided and completely unnecessary," says Dr. Luke Kupis, a urologist, andrologist, microsurgeon and male infertility specialist.
- Every day we dispense narcotics, the heaviest drugs, and suddenly it turns out that with this one there is such a big political dispute, and yet this can be completely peacefully reconciled. This project should be worked on, and at the same time give a free hand to pharmacists. Let them decide...
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