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PM reassures Poles in battle against COVID-19

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Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Wednesday that he believed that Poland would successfully overcome the coronavirus disease.

Kraków and Gliwice unveil new graduation towers to help the people breathe

The structures create a mineral-rich mist by dripping saline water through brushwood.

Viral challenge raises incredible 9mln PLN for one the world’s most expensive drugs to save toddler’s life

After hearing about the plight of 18-month-old baby Wojtek, fireman Marcin Topór started the push ups challenge little realising it would sweep across the country and even see firemen in Berlin taking part.

Lockdown and isolation: the summer a Polish city defeated an outbreak of one of the world’s deadliest diseases

TFN takes a look at back at a previous epidemic Poland had to face, and how smallpox was contained.

Child with rare disease gets all clear to fly to US for special medical treatment despite travel ban

Polish authorities and US embassy rally to the cause to send child to the US for urgent medical care.

Poland strives to ensure safety from coronavirus - PM's aide

Poland is striving to ensure safety for its citizens in connection with the spreading coronavirus, prime ministerial aide Michal Dworczyk said on Friday after the prime minister's consultations on measures against the disease with provincial authorities.

Con job: how two wartime doctors saved thousands by fooling the Germans into believing a town was stricken with typhus

Doctors injected people with a dead typhus strain resulting in a positive test but no symptoms of the killer disease.

Daughter’s dream of seeing her 102-year-old dad walk again comes true after he has both legs chopped off

Tadeusz Madera’s daughter Marta had a dream to see her dad walk again after he had both legs amputated. Thanks to surgeons in Rzeszów, who also help animals, that dream has come true.

British six-year-old to get life-changing treatment from award-winning Docs in Warsaw

Hailie Campbell’s parents raised 70,000 GBP to have their daughter cured in the Polish capital for a rare debilitating disease which affects only 130 people worldwide.

Łódź firm produces fat-busting drug which could save 450 million globally from liver disease

The drug which comes from a compound called 1-MNA helps to reduce fat around the liver and by so doing reduces the risk life-threatening liver cancer and other related diseases. een developed by a company in Łódź.  

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Rzeszów monk sets up music school in war-torn African state to teach child soldiers to take up music instead of weapons

Capuchin monk Brother Benedykt Pączka decided to offer children an alternative to being child soldiers and try to sow the seeds of future peace in the country by teaching them to prefer a guitar over a Kalashnikov.

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