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...
Consideration of a citizen's bill to amend the law on the method of determining the lowest basic salary of some employees working in medical entities.
Pierwsze czytanie rządowego projektu ustawy o zmianie ustawy o Krajowej Sieci Onkologicznej – uzasadnia Minister Zdrowia. Rozpatrzenie wniosku zgłoszonego w czasie drugiego czytania do projektu ustawy o zmianie ustawy – Prawo farmaceutyczne.
Continued work on proposed provisions of the draft law on the profession of psychotherapist.
Interview with Krystyna Wechmann, president of the Polish Coalition of Oncology Patients.
Faces of support in illness.
A conversation with Prof. Anna Latos-Bielinska, national consultant in clinical genetics.
Patient organizations and the Economic Chamber "Farmacja Polska" want to ban the sale of disposable e-cigarettes and are appealing to the Health Ministry on this issue. We talk about it with Irena Rej, president of the Economic Chamber "Farmacja Polska".
Daily choices regarding diet, physical activity, exposure to various environmental factors, tobacco smoke, alcohol, etc. affect the speed of aging, the progression of biological age, but also the intellectual, social and emotional activity of seniors is extremely important," says Professor Piotr...
How to properly style hair to keep the effect straight from the salon? What hair finishing accessories are fashionable this season? The secrets of well-prepared styling are revealed by celebrity hairdresser Bartek Janusz, ambassador of professional hair care and styling at Hebe.
The Polish senior citizen's medicine cabinet is usually pathological, we have a great deal of unnecessary drugs and pathosupplementation. There is also a problem with so-called invalidating pharmacotherapy, when, as a result of drug complications and side effects, seniors feel increasingly...
Today is February 14, which is St. Valentine's Day. He is also the patron saint of people struggling with epilepsy, which is why in Poland this day is also celebrated as Epilepsy Day. And what do Warsaw residents associate this date with? We asked them about it in a street poll. We also checked...
An interview with Patient Ombudsman Bartłomiej Chmielowiec
An interview with Anna Alicja Lisowska, founder of the EPI-BOHATER Foundation.
Interview with Prof. Konrad Rejdak, president of the Polish Neurological Society
Cooperation between ministries, assistance aimed at active people whose loved ones need care, support for care services at the place of residence, or the issue of building a long-term care system. Minister Marzena Okła-Drewnowicz tells us what are the most urgent measures in senior citizen policy.
Are we treating acute myeloid leukemia in Poland according to international guidelines? How do targeted therapies change the treatment outlook? Prof. Agnieszka Wierzbowska of the Department of Hematology at the Medical University of Lodz says.
Conference on health education and oncology prevention. The meeting is co-organized by Deputy Speaker of the Sejm Monika Wielichowska, Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna and Education Minister Barbara Nowacka. Experts and representatives of oncology patient organizations, among others, have been...
An interview with Monika Pintal-Slimak, president of the National Chamber of Laboratory Diagnosticians.
Acute myeloid leukemia is one of the relatively rare hematopoietic malignancies. We discuss the diagnostic and therapeutic challenges with Professor Lidia Gil of the Department of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation at the Poznan University of Medical Sciences.
- Senior age is special in that the body always functions less well as the years go by, and diabetes accelerates those processes that normally take place in aging. It can be said that a patient with diabetes ages twice as fast, as long as he is treated poorly. If he is well managed and follows...
- Anesthesiology takes patient safety as its starting point. Anyone undergoing sedation or anesthesia must first and foremost be safe," Professor Janusz Andres, president of the Polish Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, told Medexpress in an interview.
A bill to amend the law on the National Cancer Network.
Przyszłość diagnostyki i profilaktyki nowotworowej - diagnostyka genetyczna i molekularna.
– Program lekowy sprawił, że pacjenci są właściwie zaopiekowani i diagnozowani. Dzięki ostatniej aktualizacji mamy w programie nową cząsteczkę, farycymab, która pozwala istotnie wydłużyć odstępy czasowe między zgłaszaniem się pacjentów do ośrodka – powiedziała prof. Małgorzata Figurska z Kliniki...
Molecular diagnostics has been one of the most important topics of public debate since the beginning of 2023. In addition to the work on amending the Medical Fund Act, the topic of molecular diagnostics in the treatment of cancer patients has been raised repeatedly in the Polish Parliament, twice...
Polypragmasy, drug-drug interactions, drug-food interactions and other pitfalls lurking for (not only elderly) patients were discussed at the 1st Senior Health Congress by Jaroslaw Woron, MD.
Raising awareness of female cancer prevention.
The social campaign "I am a doctor, I am a man" shows what is not obvious at first glance in the medical profession. Bureaucracy, constant tension and stress, staff shortages, limits, queues. Powerlessness in the face of the system. Many of these factors have a negative impact on the quality of...
Changes in the composition of the Presidium of the Commission. Consideration of information on the operation of the Medical Fund in 2020-2023 and the status of publicly funded infrastructure investments - presented by the Minister of Health.
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