News
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Echoes of the future 30 May 2023
If an echo (or ultrasound) detects heart or other defects in a foetus, parents face difficult decisions. Then some idea of their child’s shorter and l...
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Quality of life is sometimes more important to the elderly than a cure 09 May 2023
Geriatrics needs to radically change. This is what Simon Mooijaart, Professor of Internal Medicine (specialising in geriatrics), will say in his inaug...
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Working on a more effective malaria vaccine: ‘safety jacket’ for parasites 28 April 2023
The Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) is working on the development of a new malaria vaccine that will be more effective than existing ones. To ...
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Peak performances by operating theatre teams: What makes care professionals resilient? 11 April 2023
Working in an operating theatre takes nerves of steel. High pressure, stress and unexpected developments during operations ask a lot of care professio...
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Inaugural lecture: Research into accelerating rare disease research through registries 29 March 2023
On 3 April, Professor Syed Faisal Ahmed from the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) will give his inaugural lecture ‘Strength in Numbers’. He wi...
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Fifty years of MRI: how the LUMC can make this indispensable technology affordable for the rest of the world 28 March 2023
It is exactly 50 years ago that Paul Lauterbur published the basic principle of MRI in Nature. A revolution in medicine. Since then, MRI has produced ...
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‘Technology for a healthy future for kidney patients’ 21 March 2023
Technological innovations such as home dialysis could significantly improve the quality of life and health of kidney patients. Professor Joris Rotmans...
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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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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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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...