‘Bacteria & Borders': An artistic research project
Bacteria & Borders is a collaboration between visual artist Marlies Vermeulen and social scientist Alena Kamenshchikova
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Lorenzo Moroni receives ERC Proof of Concept grant
Lorenzo Moroni is the lucky recipient of an ERC Proof of Concept grant for his proposal entitled “The hydrocup: a hollow electrospun scaffold for in vivo cell-laden hydrogel delivery”.
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Costs overweight and obesity over €79 billion a year
The average societal costs of people with obesity and overweight are almost €11.500 per year. This leads to a total cost for the Netherlands of more than €79 billion per year. This is the outcome of the study Burden of disease study of overweight and obesity; the societal impact in terms of cost-of...
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Developing a measurement scale that captures the full dimensions of health
Recently, ZonMw awarded a grant worth 742.000 euros to Marieke Spreeuwenberg and her team to develop a measurement scale for integrative health approaches.
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Patients with schizophrenia hardly represented in antipsychotic drug studies
No less than 80 per cent of patients who are prone to psychosis are left out of clinical studies on the effectiveness of antipsychotics. These drug studies apply strict exclusion criteria, which means that only the least ill patients participate, such as those who are susceptible to psychosis, but...
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Daisy Janssen appointed professor in Old Age Medicine
The chair is an important link in interdisciplinary education and research in the field of care for the elderly in a vulnerable position within the Living Lab Ageing and Long-Term Care Limburg.
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Realisation of national Pilot factory for regenerative medicine has started
RegMed XB has received the first subsidy of 23 million euros from the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy. This is the start of the realization of the national pilot factory for regenerative medicine after the Dutch cabinet decided on 9 April this year to fund the National Growth Fund...
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Fewer patients visited GP due to asthma or COPD during the covid-19 pandemic
Since the start of the corona pandemic in March 2020, the use of general practitioner care by patients due to asthma or COPD has been persistently lower than in 2019, the year before the corona pandemic.
