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Health Campus The Hague: working together for better health and care30 September 2022Better health for all the residents of The Hague region. This is the mission of Health Campus The Hague – formerly LUMC Campus The Hague. Eight partne...
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Heineken Young Scientists Award for three Leiden researchers11 July 2022Three of the four Heineken Young Scientists Awards for 2022 have gone to researchers from Leiden: chronobiologist Laura Kervezee, physicist Jordi Tura...
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Antibiotic treatments make us more susceptible to negative emotions08 July 2022People who have taken antibiotics in the past three months pay more attention to negative facial expressions, according to research by postdoc Katerin...
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Joining forces for a Healthy and Happy The Hague05 July 2022Numerous of enthusiastic administrators, professionals, policy makers, and citizens gathered last week for an assembly organised by ‘Gezond en Gelukki...
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'Public authorities insufficiently aware of obligations arising from freedom of choice of healthcare provider’30 June 2022Is the right to choose your healthcare provider protected in the Dutch Constitution? What are the consequences then for the Dutch healthcare system? P...
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Clashing fundamental rights in KLM labour dispute23 May 2022Can the KLM reject an applicant for a job as a pilot or stewardess if they refuse to get vaccinated against Covid-19? Or put more broadly: can the emp...
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‘Using real-world data to enhance our healthcare system’17 May 2022On 16 May 2022, Professor Michel Wouters from the Department of Biomedical Data Sciences at the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC), will deliver ...
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NWA grant for health law as part of NWA Cure4life24 March 2022Mirjam Sombroek, Aart Hendriks and Martine de Vries (LUMC) will work on mapping the ethical and legal aspects of gene therapy. The aim is to establish...
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Funding for Mirjam Sombroek-van Doorm for health law research10 March 2022Mirjam Sombroek-van Doorm has been awarded contract funding for research conducted for the intervention programme ‘Nu Niet Zwanger’ (Not Pregnant Now)...
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Unravelling the complexity of HIV/AIDS23 February 2022Dr. Josien de Klerk, Associate professor in Global Public Health at Leiden University College The Hague recently published some of her work on HIV/AID...
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Patient-centred research: less about the tumour, more about the patient28 January 2022Amir Zamanipoor Najafabadi, a doctor and researcher at the LUMC’s Department of Neurosurgery, researches how meningioma treatment can have a long-term...
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Positive Health: what is it and how do you measure it?17 December 2021Health policy in the Netherlands is increasingly based on Positive Health. This approach sees health as much more than simply not being ill. There are...
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Aart Hendriks: Compulsory vaccination is in the interest of public health06 December 2021Yesterday, the House of Representatives in the Netherlands rejected a motion that would completely rule out an obligation to get vaccinated. Compulsor...
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Half of all households in the Netherlands are financially vulnerable29 November 2021Only 27 per cent of Dutch households are financially healthy. This appears from a joint study conducted by Deloitte, ING, NIBUD and the Department of ...
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Mirjam Sombroek-van Doorm asked again to advise Minister of Health29 November 2021
The Minister has requested urgent advice from Sombroek-van Doorm in relation to the vaccination of children aged between 5 and 12 years against COVID-19.