Companies Want to Reduce Sickness Absence. Preventive Health Leave Is Intended to Help

Employees today need benefits that genuinely make life easier, not just ones that look good in an employer’s offer. The “Preventive Health Leave – 8 Hours for Medical Check-ups”...

MedTech Solutions Introduces MISSO Orthopaedic Surgical Robot to the Polish Market

MedTech Solutions, a company listed on NewConnect and developing a scalable business model in...

More Than 110 Million Europeans Exposed to Long-Term Transport Noise, Experts Warn of Health Risks

More than 110 million Europeans, or around 20% of the population, are exposed to...

Access to Hospital Care at Risk as Poland’s County Hospitals Face Deepening Financial Crisis

Access to hospital care in some Polish counties is under threat, according to an...

Higher Doses of Intrathecal SMA Therapy May Further Improve Patients’ Motor Function

In recent years, access to modern therapies has changed the quality of life of...

Acute Myeloid Leukaemia Can Be Fatal Within Months. Its Non-Specific Symptoms Are Easily Mistaken for Ordinary Fatigue

Acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) is the most common type of acute leukaemia in adults. It is characterised by an aggressive course and low survival...

Poland’s Healthcare Funding Model Needs Deep Reform, Experts Warn

Poland’s healthcare financing system is being held back by uneven health insurance contributions across different groups of citizens, a lack of mechanisms supporting preventive...

SMA Treatment in Poland Has Transformed the Outlook for Patients, and Doctors See Room for Further Progress

Progress in the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy, together with Poland’s drug programme, has completely changed the picture of the disease within just a...

EU Weighs Tighter Nitrous Oxide Rules as Recreational Use Among Young People Raises Alarm

The problem of recreational nitrous oxide use, especially among young people, is growing in many European countries. In several states, authorities have recorded serious...

New Therapies Raise Hope for Longer Life with Multiple Myeloma

Multiple myeloma remains an incurable disease, but advances in medicine are clearly improving patients’ outlook. Increasingly, doctors are speaking of remissions lasting many years...

MEPs Call for Stronger EU Cancer Policy and a Dedicated Budget Line to Secure Long-Term Funding

Members of the European Parliament are calling for a stronger EU health policy to fight cancer as incidence continues to rise. In a resolution...

EU Moves to Secure Medicines Supply Chains: Critical Medicines Act and Pharmaceutical Reform

EU institutions have been warning for several years about the European Union’s dependence on global supply chains for medicines and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs),...

New Temozolomide Delivery Method for Brain Tumor Therapy Developed in Kraków

Researchers at Jagiellonian University have developed a new way of administering a drug used in brain cancer therapy. The approach could potentially increase treatment...

EU Critical Medicines Act Enters Final Stage: Boosting Production to Secure Public Health

Work on the EU's Critical Medicines Act is entering the home stretch. Negotiations have begun between the European Parliament and EU member state governments,...

New EU Pharmaceutical Package Nears Final Approval

In December 2025, the European Parliament, together with the Council of the EU and the European Commission, reached an agreement on revising the EU...

The Feminization of Medicine Is Reshaping Healthcare—and Poses New Challenges for the Polish Armed Forces

Data from Statistics Poland (GUS) and the Ministry of Health show a steady feminization of medicine already at the university level. In the coming...

SMA Care in Poland: Broader Reimbursement, Therapy Switching, and Better Access

For almost seven years, patients with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)—a rare disease that in its natural course leads to profound disability and premature death...

Digital Twins in Healthcare: Poland Tests Second Brain to Predict Health Risks and Therapy Response

Digital twins could become one of the key tools of future medicine. They will enable not only real-time health monitoring but also the prediction...

Poland’s Military Lacks Systematic Mental Health Monitoring, Experts Say

Only 13 psychiatrists serve in the Polish Armed Forces, and one front-line psychologist is responsible on average for 825 soldiers, while NATO standards recommend...
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