Medicine

Actress gets 8.6 million euros to build ‘world’s first coma-curing’ clinic

Actress Ewa Błaszczyk’s new clinic has also been awarded a grant of over PLN 37 million (8.6 million euros) from the Justice Fund run by the Ministry of Justice, which will cover the clinic’s construction and equipment. Piotr Nowak/PAP

Following on from the success of her Budzik clinic where children in a coma receive treatment, care and rehabilitation, actress Ewa Błaszczyk now plans to build a similar clinic for adults in a coma.

Docs reconstruct boy’s throat in ground-breaking transplant surgery

After swallowing toxic chemicals, the boy had to be fed directly via his intestines, breathed through a tracheostomy tube and never learned to speak. Now surgeons have carried out a world-first by completely rebuilding his internal organs.

Polish accountant helps save lives in Asia with ground-breaking technology firm

Dajer along with his wife run a pioneering company developing affordable and life-saving technology for hospitals.

Urine luck! Astonishing new ‘cancer tester’ detects disease with a drop of wee

Needing only a urine sample, the easy to use, quick and non-invasive tester changes colour depending on the result.

New Medical Research Agency to make medicine ‘more innovative’

The new Agency will fill a gap in Poland, supporting medical progress through analysis, funding and research, with the ultimate aim of improving healthcare in the country.

'Young at HEART' doc makes Forbes’ prestigious 30-under-30 list

At the age of just 21, while in his 2nd year of studies at Jagiellonian University’s Medical College, Dr Mateusz Hołda co-founded HEART (the Heart Embryology and Anatomical Research Team). Five years on, he’s now ranked as one of the most impressive under-30s in Europe for his ground-breaking research into the human heart. TFN’s Nick Westerby caught up with him.

TFN’s Kirsty Hardial hits the streets with volunteer medics giving on-the-spot treatment to Warsaw’s homeless

Everyone is bundled up in drab clothes, it’s -5 and we are all numb with cold. It’s hard to tell volunteer from homeless tonight. Starting at 8 pm, they won’t leave until everyone is seen to, sometimes finishing at 3 AM.

Magic mushrooms? Could fungus found in Polish forest help cure cancer?

Scientists in Białystok have found cancer-eating mushrooms which they believe could help prevent colon cancer.

Kraków doctors travel to Madagascar on medical aid mission

Seven doctors from the southern Polish city of Kraków will leave for Madagascar on October 20, where they will help patients at a hospital in the second biggest city, Antsirabe. They will take with them PLN 17,000's worth (EUR 3,900) of medical equipment.

More than 1.3 million potential bone-marrow donors in Poland - Expert

There are already over 1.3 million potential bone-marrow donors in Poland - and in Europe, Poland is second only to Germany, a Polish consultant in the field of haematology, prof. Wieslaw Jedrzejczak said.

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