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Motion sickness is a condition which manifests itself while travelling by various means of transport. Dizziness, nausea and vomiting – its most common symptoms and signs – can be alleviated by taking medications and observing certain rules.

Similar to adults’ hospice care, hospice care provided to children may be home-based or stationary. The principal condition of admitting a child to a hospice is his/her incurable and progressing illness.

Specialists emphasize that products we eat and drink may have a significant impact on the absorption, metabolism and excretion of drugs. That is why drugs should be taken at least one hour before and no earlier than two hours after a meal. It’s also best to wash them down with ordinary boiled water.

Following a healthy diet, exercising, taking enough sleep, maintaining optimal body weight, and undergoing vaccinations – these are the basic prerequisites to keeping your body fit and ensuring effective resistance to diseases.

The Silesian Centre for Heart Diseases in Zabrze is one of the leading highly specialised institutions in the country engaged in the diagnostics and treatment of heart, vascular and pulmonary diseases in adults and children.

Physiological jaundice in a newborn is not a disease. It is a disturbance connected with the infant’s adaptation to the new conditions. Jaundice in a neonate is indicated by yellowish skin, mucosa and eyes, drowsiness, and breastfeeding aversion.

Doctors reassure us of the safety and painlessness of bone marrow aspiration; and that its transplantation can save people from death - e.g. leukaemia patients. Finding a donor is, however, difficult – he/she has to be a histocompatible donor, while the histocompatibility complex has over a billion possibilities.

A three-year-old with a disturbance of consciousness was brought in to a clinic in Warsaw’s Mokotów district by his parents. It turned out that he was given cough syrups – various kinds, but similar in their mechanism of action. His parents did not know that both contained pseudoephedrine, a stimulant of the nervous system, which resulted in a dangerous overdose.

If you work in front of the computer, it is vital that you take care of tailoring the workstation to your needs. Your comfort is largely affected by e.g. you chair, which should provide comfortable support and freedom of movement, screen adjustment and desk size.

Uterine fibroids are often considered the most common benign gynaecological tumours in women of childbearing age. They cause onerous ailments – strong bleeding, abdominal pain, and may even prevent pregnancy.

The Children's Memorial Health Institute is one of the largest and most innovative paediatric healthcare centres in Poland. It annually admits approximately 30 thousand patients. It hosts procedures not available anywhere else, e.g. liver transplants in children. The hospital covers 17.5 hectares.

In 2011, the European Parliament passed the directive preventing counterfeit drugs. It aims to prevent the sales of counterfeit medication. In 2011, an estimated 1 percent of the drugs on the European market were counterfeits.