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Walking, strolling and standing more during the day is better for sugar regulation in diabetics than an hour of high-intensity exercise. 

Anke Langenfeld has received the Scientific Award for her poster ‘Development of a Self-administered Neck Mobility Assessment Tool (S-ROM-Neck) In Chronic Neck Pain Patients: A prospective cohort study’.

David Townend, endowed professor of Law and Legal Philosophy in Health, Medicine and Life Sciences: Governance and Regulation in a Changing Science Landscape

People who travel to distant destinations often import multidrug-resistant intestinal bacteria known as ESBL-producing bacteria, which are resistant to common antibiotics.

‘There’s no cure for osteoarthritis’, is what Wikipedia and all available textbooks say. According to the consortium ‘William Hunter revisited’, led by Prof. Karperien (University of Twente), it is now time to revise this.

On 9 November Annerika Slok defended her PhD thesis titled ‘Towards personalised management using the Assessment of Burden of COPD (ABC) tool’ and was awarded the distinction cum laude.

Twelve November it is World Pneumonia Day. Camielle Noordam did PhD research on pneumonia in children in sub-Saharan Africa.

On 30 September Casper Webers won the Poster Award for his poster titled 'Valuing treatment with infliximab for ankylosing spondylitis using a willingness-to-pay approach'.

Irma Everink is a PhD candidate in the CAPHRI Research Line Ageing and Long-Term Care. She was selected for this award for her abstract on ‘Effects of an integrated care pathway within geriatric rehabilitation: preliminary results’.

On 17 September Geneviève van Liere received the oral presentation award for her talk on anogenital chlamydia.