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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 2021The 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.
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Healthcare and population health: AI research in Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam25 November 2021‘Our health is the area that stands to gain most from artificial intelligence.’ The three universities in Zuid-Holland are helping make these gains. T...
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Healthy ageing? Shift the focus from the individual to the population11 November 2021David van Bodegom, Professor of Vitality in an Ageing Population, will give his inaugural lecture on 11 November, also titled Vitality in an Ageing Po...
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Hendriks: Spanish euthanasia law important, but with teething problems04 November 2021
Earlier this year, Spain passed a law that legalises euthanasia and assisted suicide. Spain is now the fourth country in Europe with such a law. Its i...
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Maia Casna investigates respiratory disease in the past with an NWO PhD in the Humanities grant05 October 2021Every year, an NWO PhD in the Humanities grant is awarded to a prospective PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology. This year, the grant went to M...
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Vaccination policy should respond to the motivations of vaccine refusers13 September 2021Research by Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), The Hague University of Applied Sciences and Erasmus University Rotterdam shows that about 15 per...
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Investigating health equality in the past with a VIDI grant: ‘We will look for indications of stress’17 August 2021Dr Sarah Schrader, an expert in the study of human remains, received a VIDI grant for a research project on health and inequality. In present day peop...
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‘Data science has crept into the faculties’ DNA’05 July 2021From 14 to 29 PhD candidates, seven actively involved faculties and, above all, lots of innovative interdisciplinary research, all with data science a...
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Mirjam Sombroek asked by Minister of Health for urgent advice on vaccination of children22 June 2021Associate Professor Mirjam Sombroek has been asked for advice on account of her expertise in the area of health law and children’s rights.
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How nature boosts the health of city residents10 May 2021Your local city park may be improving your health, according to a new paper led by Leiden environmental scientist Roy Remme. In Proceedings of the Nat...