This was a major event dedicated to health promotion and prevention. It was organized by the Faculty of Health Sciences on the occasion of the upcoming World Health Day. Students from five public high schools and senior citizens were invited to attend - a total of more than 400 people. Guests first listened to interesting lectures by experts, and then sought advice and information from representatives of student scientific circles.

Saturday, March 23 was an exceptional day at the Department of General and Transplantation Surgery UCC MUW. On a single day, in less than 10 hours, two pancreas transplants were performed there (including one - simultaneous with a kidney transplant). The patients are feeling better and better, and although both are still in the hospital, they will be discharged home in the next few days.

Today, March 27, 2024, at the U.S. Ambassador to Poland Mark Brzezinski’s residence, Rector Professor Zbigniew Gaciong attended another cyclical meeting on the issue of youth mental health.

Rector Prof. Zbigniew Gaciong hosted a visit to our university by Josef Pavlovic, Deputy Minister of Health of the Czech Republic, who was accompanied by Adéla Lemrová - an expert on infant and young child nutrition from the National Health Institute of the Czech Republic, Aneta Majerčíková - an advisor, and Jaroslav Remes - a representative of the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Warsaw.

Everyone knows that most hospitals are in debt and those that financially manage are a fraction of a percent. There is a lack of liquidity, after all, everyone has to pay for heating or electricity, drug supplies. So what do they do? They borrow - says Anna Łukasik in an interview she gave to the Polish Press Agency.

About 1,500 visitors, 40 booths, nearly 300 students manning the booths, 4 lectures in the auditorium, 8 types of workshops and 400 participants - this is the balance of the Open Day, which took place on March 23 at our university.

The most important thing in preventing type two diabetes is prevention, i.e. fighting obesity, a good diet and physical activity, emphasized Senator Agnieszka Gorgoń-Komor, MD, PhD, during the debate "How to stop the diabetes epidemic?" organized by the Medical Center MUW and held on March 15 at the Medical University of Warsaw. The senator added that Poles live ten years less than Italians or Spaniards due to diseases of civilization.

Rector Prof. Zbigniew Gaciong met with Minister Jan Grabec - Member of the Council of Ministers, Head of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister. The topic of the conversation, which took place on Thursday, March 14, 2024, was the challenges of operating medical universities, with particular attention to the problems of child and adolescent psychiatry.

In the finals, 10 pharmacy and 9 medical analytics students presented their works. All the works were characterized by a high level of content, and the young students of pharmaceutical sciences talked about them professionally and interestingly: first during the poster session, then - in front of a wider audience - in the auditorium of the Didactic Center. After the jury's deliberations, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners in each field were selected. They were…

The Preclinical Testing and Technology Center (CePT) is the largest integrated biomedical and biotechnology research center, which has been involved in interdisciplinary research of lifestyle diseases for years. During the conference that took place on March 8 at our University building, discussion was focused on the Center’s key achievements in the field of biomedicine and its contemplated operating directions for the future. The event was also a networking opportunity.