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How can we live healthier lives? Universities and hospitals are going to find out 21 March 2023
Getting out and exercising rather than slobbing on the sofa, breathing in fresh air instead of cigarette smoke and grabbing healthy snacks instead of ...
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ERC grant to find out how children fight respiratory infections 13 March 2023
The nursery and classrooms are perhaps the most favourable places for pathogens. Yet relatively little is known about how children react to viruses an...
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Maternal mortality in the Netherlands halved in recent years 06 March 2023
The number of women in the Netherlands dying before, during or after childbirth has halved in recent years. This was discovered by Athanasios Kalliani...
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Income and ethnicity are risk factors for cardiovascular disease 06 March 2023
Dutch people with a low income are up to 1.5 times more at risk of a heart attack or stroke than their wealthier compatriots. Among Surinamese Hindus ...
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Looking at the person beyond the blood clot 28 February 2023
How can we improve the treatment of thrombosis, reduce the disease’s impact and spend less money while we’re at it? This is what Erik Klok, Professor ...
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Interdisciplinary minor ‘Violence Studies’: ‘It felt like we were going to fight a group of people’ 27 February 2023
The interdisciplinary, English-taught minor ‘Violence Studies’ looks at violence from very diverse scientific perspectives. What are the benefits of t...
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Four Vici grants for Leiden University researchers 23 February 2023
Four researchers from Leiden University have been awarded prestigious Vici grants the Dutch Research Council (NWO) has announced. The honoured applica...
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Interdisciplinarity offers ‘golden opportunities’ but not without big changes 23 February 2023
How should we organise interdisciplinary work within Leiden University? This was the key question at a symposium organised by the Liveable Planet inte...
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Grants to build large-scale research facilities 20 February 2023
Five projects with researchers from Leiden University have received a grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to build or upgrade existing researc...
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Eleven master’s students start research into sustainable hospitals 13 February 2023
February 8 saw the launch of the Medical Delta ‘Sustainable Hospitals’ Interdisciplinary Thesis Lab. From insight into the environmental impact of hea...
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LUMC researchers: matching medication to DNA leads to 30% fewer side effects 03 February 2023
According to an international group of researchers led by Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), patients experience 30% fewer serious side effects ...
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LUMC researchers: high levels of lipids in blood protect against allergies 02 February 2023
People with relatively high levels of lipids in their blood are less likely to develop allergic conditions such as eczema and asthma. These lipids cau...
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‘We shouldn’t lump all microorganisms together’ 31 January 2023
Hermelijn Smits is Professor of Host-commensal Interactions and Immune Modulation. In this role she is increasing our current understanding of the way...
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The more time, the better the kidney 26 January 2023
There are never enough donor organs. And the organs that there are have to be transplanted at lightning speed. Medical science is therefore working ha...
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Maureen Rutten-van Mölken: ‘Invest in innovations that produce the most health benefits‘ 26 January 2023
Digital medical technology can help provide affordable care and solve the shortage of health workers. But how do you know if an innovation actually ad...