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Separating AI fact from fiction at the AI & Society Conference12 June 2023Researchers and policymakers are welcome to attend the AI & Society Conference in The Hague on Friday 23 June. The SAILS interdisciplinary research pr...
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Why we should handle antibiotics with care02 June 2023More and more people worldwide have infections caused by bacteria that are resistant to many types of antibiotic. Why is this and how big of a problem...
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Echoes of the future30 May 2023If an echo (or ultrasound) detects heart or other defects in a foetus, parents face difficult decisions. Then some idea of their child’s shorter and l...
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Five tips for Museum Night Leiden30 May 2023Saturday 3 June will see the 15th edition of Museum Night Leiden. Students and researchers from Leiden University are once again on the programme this...
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Quality of life is sometimes more important to the elderly than a cure09 May 2023Geriatrics needs to radically change. This is what Simon Mooijaart, Professor of Internal Medicine (specialising in geriatrics), will say in his inaug...
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Subsidy for development of tools for fast and accurate rheumatic diagnosis04 May 2023Digital diagnostic tools should improve the diagnostic process of patients with musculoskeletal complaints, so that they can receive the right treatme...
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Working on a more effective malaria vaccine: ‘safety jacket’ for parasites28 April 2023The Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) is working on the development of a new malaria vaccine that will be more effective than existing ones. To ...
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Two Leiden professors appointed KNAW members25 April 2023The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) announced on 25 April that it has appointed 18 new members. These include Leiden professors ...
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Peak performances by operating theatre teams: What makes care professionals resilient?11 April 2023Working in an operating theatre takes nerves of steel. High pressure, stress and unexpected developments during operations ask a lot of care professio...
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Inaugural lecture: Research into accelerating rare disease research through registries29 March 2023
On 3 April, Professor Syed Faisal Ahmed from the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) will give his inaugural lecture ‘Strength in Numbers’. He wi...
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Fifty years of MRI: how the LUMC can make this indispensable technology affordable for the rest of the world28 March 2023It is exactly 50 years ago that Paul Lauterbur published the basic principle of MRI in Nature. A revolution in medicine. Since then, MRI has produced ...
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‘Technology for a healthy future for kidney patients’21 March 2023Technological innovations such as home dialysis could significantly improve the quality of life and health of kidney patients. Professor Joris Rotmans...
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How can we live healthier lives? Universities and hospitals are going to find out21 March 2023Getting out and exercising rather than slobbing on the sofa, breathing in fresh air instead of cigarette smoke and grabbing healthy snacks instead of ...
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ERC grant to find out how children fight respiratory infections13 March 2023The nursery and classrooms are perhaps the most favourable places for pathogens. Yet relatively little is known about how children react to viruses an...
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Maternal mortality in the Netherlands halved in recent years06 March 2023The number of women in the Netherlands dying before, during or after childbirth has halved in recent years. This was discovered by Athanasios Kalliani...