News

This Annual Report highlights the main activities of the Centre that were undertaken in the year 2015.

Radiology should have a permanent role in forensic medical examinations and in determining the cause of natural and unnatural death (MUMC+ News).

Certain types of basal cell carcinoma can be treated using anti-inflammatory ointment instead of surgical intervention (MUMC+ Nieuws).

Paul Hofman, Professor of Forensic and Post-mortem Radiology: “We need more investigations into the cause of death”

The insulin sensitivity of patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is just as poor as that of patients with type 2 diabetes. Exercise, however, can help the patients to improve their insulin sensitivity, reduce the amount of fat in the liver and, effectively, pre-empt the development...

New technology provides potential to spur new connections and foster new collaborations.

It has eventually happened. The United Kingdom will leave the European Union. It looked briefly as though the British people would vote for “stay”, but a majority of the voters of the referendum that was held in the United Kingdom wants to leave the European Union. At this stage, it is too early to...

Expertise centre ITEM notes with great interest the legislative proposal of Klein, member House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) of the Dutch Parliament, to amend the The General OldAge Pension Act (AOW) and the Participation Act (Participatiewet) in regards to the introduction of the possibility...

Brexit - a bad day for Europe, but knowledge must always cross borders

Principal components analysis (PCA) is a common unsupervised method for the analysis of gene expression microarray data, providing information on the overall structure of the analyzed dataset.