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Five people stand in a medical laboratory between workstations equipped with laboratory analyzers. Four people are wearing white laboratory coats, and one person is wearing navy-blue medical scrubs. Diagnostic instruments, computers, and laboratory workstations are visible in the background.
Our university hosts Inja Pavlic from Croatia, who carries out an academic placement as part of the LabX program of the European Federation of Laboratory Medicine (EFLM). The visit enables the exchange of experience in the field of modern laboratory diagnostics, at the same time promoting WUM as an attractive place to educate future specialists from all over Europe.
Axial cross-sectional computed tomography (CT) image of the abdomen. The vertebral body of a lumbar vertebra, the abdominal organs, and intestinal loops are visible. In the anterior part of the abdominal cavity, an area with different tissue density is visible. The image is medical in nature and depicts anatomical structures in grayscale. The image is labeled: “Ice ball created during the procedure.”
Our specialists performed a pioneering procedure in a patient with a painful tumor measuring about 8 cm in diameter, which grew despite pharmacological treatment. As many as 10 cryoablation needles were used for the procedure at the same time. The course of the procedure was uncomplicated.
Wide view of a conference hall during the “Strength of Relationships” event for World Suicide Prevention Day 2026, with presenters on stage and participants seated in the audience
“There is no darkness so deep that another person cannot bring light in,” said Dr Halszka Witkowska from the Life Worth Talking Foundation during a conference organized at WUM on 10 September 2026, which the World Suicide Prevention Day. The motto of the event was "The Power of Relationships", because relationships are the strongest factor protecting against a suicide crisis.