It is commonly believed that obese patients accumulate excess body fat because they eat too much, move too little, and lack willpower. This is a very harmful myth. It causes the disease of obesity to be underestimated and untreated. Consequently, patients develop serious complications. An interview with Mariusz Wylezol, MD, PhD, from the 2nd Department of General, Vascular and Oncological Surgery MUW, located at Czerniakowski Hospital.

A positive recommendation has already been made and vaccinations will start soon. It's a chance to protect children from a disease that is not as benign to them as it seemed. Just compare it to other diseases we vaccinate against, such as influenza, chickenpox, whooping cough, and rotavirus. The threat of COVID-19 is not smaller at all. An interview with Ernest Kuchar, MD, PhD, from the Department of Paediatrics with Clinical Assessment Unit at the Paediatric Teaching Clinical Hospital of UCC MUW.

The researchers from the Regenerative Medicine Laboratory MUW have explained how coronavirus, on the one hand, can directly infect hematopoietic stem cells responsible for hematopoietic processes and, on the other hand, lead to a cytokine storm.

About 3 percent of patients with suspected myocardial infarction are thought to have takotsubo syndrome. We believe, however, that these data are greatly underestimated, and the disease is often underdiagnosed - interview with Monika Budnik, MD, PhD, and Prof. Marcin Grabowski from the 1st Chair and Department of Cardiology MUW.

Each year, 34 million children worldwide become ill from RSV. RSV infections are being talked about much more this season. What are the reasons and how to effectively protect yourself against the virus? We talk to Prof. Aneta Nitsch-Osuch, MD, PhD, a specialist in epidemiology, pediatrics and public health, Head of the Department of Social Medicine and Public Health at the MUW.

Modern technologies give an opportunity to determine the molecular profile of cancer, which was impossible a decade ago. They make it possible to study hundreds or thousands of genes simultaneously in order to find “weaknesses” in cancer cells. For years, the WMU has been a pioneer in large-scale research using the next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology not only in oncology but also in rare diseases or those where it is impossible to make a diagnosis without genetic testing. 

Those who don't vaccinate put their patients at risk of death. I don't know why Covid passports can be checked at airports and in cafes but not in hospitals or during classes with students - says Wojciech Feleszko, PhD hab., from the Department of Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergology at UCC MUW.

In April 2021, on the initiative of Jakub Piwowarski, MD, PhD, and Prof. Sebastian Granica, young scientists with over 10 years of experience in studying human intestinal microbiota, the environmental laboratory - Microbiota Lab - was established at the Medical University of Warsaw. One direction of research conducted by Microbiota Lab scientists concerns the interaction of xenobiotics (mostly natural compounds) with the human skin microbiota.

For over a year now, we have been living in times that we did not expect coming and were not prepared for them at all. Things were supposed to get better, we were counting on the veracity of the theory of the "end of history" [copyright by Fukuyama], and progress was inevitable and in principle always bore "blessed" fruit. Medicine might no longer be drastically prolonging our lives, but it had certainly sought to make us die as healthy as possible.