The first Ukrainian patients have begun treatment for prostate cancer with an innovative Bayer drug, which was approved in September 2025.
As the company told the “Interfax-Ukraine” news agency, the drug is currently available to patients. Its efficacy and safety profile have been confirmed by international clinical trials.
Prostate cancer remains one of the most common cancers among men.
As reported, Bayer forecasts growth in its pharmaceutical business starting in 2027, with an increase in operating margin to 30% by 2030. Additionally, the company plans to develop five key therapeutic areas, including cardiology—specifically secondary stroke prevention—comprehensive treatment of chronic kidney disease, oncology—including treatment of metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer—women’s health, and menopause symptom management.
The international company Bayer operates in the healthcare and agriculture sectors. In fiscal year 2025, the Bayer Group employed over 88,000 people, and sales exceeded EUR 45.6 billion. R&D expenditures, excluding special items, reached over EUR 5.8 billion.
Bayer Ukraine is part of the global Bayer AG group, headquartered in Leverkusen, Germany. The company has been operating in Ukraine since 1992. It is represented by the following divisions: Pharmaceuticals, Consumer Health, and Agriculture.
In 2023, 537 couples will undergo free infertility treatment, while in 2022, 467 families did so, the director of the Medical Services Department of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine Aleksandra Mashkevych said.
“The procedure is completely free of charge and guaranteed by the state. Of course, I can’t say that the procedure will be completely successful for all couples – it’s the kind of process where no one ever gives a 100% guarantee. But we have a 50% success rate of insemination”, – she said on the air of a telethon on Thursday.
Mashkevych said that couples can undergo the free procedure within the program in three medical centers managed by the Ministry of Health in Kiev, Ivano-Frankivsk and Kharkiv.
She specified that within the framework of the state program, the first procedure is free of charge. If it is not successful, the next attempts are made at the expense of the patients.
However, she noted that the Ministry of Health is planning to initiate changes in the state program, under which a greater number of attempts for women of certain categories should be free.
“We in the Ministry are working on it. The parliamentary committee of the nation’s health, medical care and health insurance is also actively involved. We hope that in the near future the law on assisted reproductive technologies, which will more deeply regulate the procedure of assisted reproductive technologies and make the procedure accessible to more of our citizens, will be published in the state,” – she said.
Mashkevych said that the average price of one attempt of artificial insemination may amount to 40-50 thousand hryvnias.
Poland will provide treatment and rehabilitation for 2,500 wounded Ukrainian soldiers, Vladimir Zelenski said at a press conference after talks with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in Kiev on Friday.
“I will separately note the interaction on the treatment and rehabilitation of our soldiers. 2,500 of our military will be able to receive such assistance,” Zielenski said.
According to him, “Poland was with us every minute of this year and will be with us until the joint victory.”
Zelensky reminded that Poland is one of the top partners of Ukraine in defense support. “Poland has become one of the founders of the ‘tank coalition.’ Today we can report the first tanks (received – IF) from Poland,” he said.
The head of state also expressed the hope that “we will be able to overcome the taboo on the ‘air coalition’. This will strengthen the Ukrainian army and security of our airspace”.
The president also said that during the negotiations the simplification of “processes at the border” was discussed. “Supply chains were built across the border. When the war started, these chains gave everything – water, food, weapons, people. Gradually we simplified the procedures to keep our people alive,” he said.
20 heavily wounded Ukrainian servicemen will undergo treatment in Israel, the Israeli Embassy in Ukraine reported on Twitter on Sunday.
“Israel will accept for treatment 20 Ukrainian servicemen who were seriously injured during the hostilities,” said Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Brodsky.
According to him, the transportation of the wounded was organized by the Israeli Embassy, the Israeli Mashav Center and the Israeli Ministry of Health in cooperation with the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.
Austria will accept up to 100 seriously wounded women and children from Ukraine for treatment and rehabilitation, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said.
“Yesterday I spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Prime Minister Denys Shmygal. I offered to accept, treat and provide rehabilitation for up to 100 seriously wounded women and children. We will continue to help as much as we can!” Nehammer wrote on Twitter on Wednesday.
The third field hospital for the treatment of military and displaced persons has been deployed on the territory of Lviv region, the press service of Lviv Regional Military Administration has reported.
“The mobile medical facility is designed for 50 beds and it was transferred to Ukraine by decision of the government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands,” the Administration said.
The hospital includes: an operating room, resuscitation beds, an intensive care unit, an X-ray diagnostics unit, a clinical laboratory with a blood bank, and an oxygen concentrator. The hospital is also equipped with an air filtration and purification system.
As stated in the message of Lviv Regional Military Administration, the hospital can work offline on a diesel generator, and with stocks of medicines and consumables for full load operation for a year.
At present, the formation of a staff of specialists continues. The hospital will employ doctors who have left the front-line areas, as well as doctors from Canada and the United States.
“Now they are staffing the hospital, and in connection with this, they have not yet started accepting patients,” Head of Lviv Regional Military Administration Maksym Kozytsky said.
This is the third field hospital deployed on the territory of Lviv region since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
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