Improving Breast Cancer Screening: Council Recommends Preparation for AI Implementation

Improving Breast Cancer Screening: Council Recommends Preparation for AI Implementation

Women between the ages of 50 and 75 are invited every two to three years to participate in breast cancer screening, which consists of taking x-rays of the breasts (mammography). At the request of the State Secretary for Health, Welfare and Sport, the council has assessed whether the population screening can be further improved within … Read more

Woman Shares Rare Cancer Journey in Week of Rare Cancers; Raises Awareness for Early Detection and Treatment

Woman Shares Rare Cancer Journey in Week of Rare Cancers; Raises Awareness for Early Detection and Treatment

It started with an ulcer under the tongue that kept bothering her. Antoinette van Keulen, then 31 years old and the mother of a son, took him to the doctor and subsequent tests followed. It turned out to be tongue cancer, a disease that almost never occurs. Certainly not among young women. Fourteen years later … Read more

The Rise of Corporate Chains in General Practitioner Care: Concerns and Supervision in Healthcare

The Rise of Corporate Chains in General Practitioner Care: Concerns and Supervision in Healthcare

Mar 04, 2024 at 12:34 Update: 28 minutes ago Large companies can maintain general practitioner care by taking over practices. But there are also concerns about how large these chains can become and their influence on healthcare. Supervisors want to be able to keep a better eye on this. That is the conclusion from the … Read more

Amsterdam UMC and Radboudumc Develop Algorithm to Predict Patient Response to Antidepressant Treatment

Amsterdam UMC and Radboudumc Develop Algorithm to Predict Patient Response to Antidepressant Treatment

The results of the research by Amsterdam UMC in collaboration with Radboudumc have been published in the scientific journal American Journal of Psychiatry Amsterdam UMC reports: ‘The researchers have developed a method that can predict whether patients will benefit from treatment with the antidepressant sertraline, even before treatment begins. They did this based on data … Read more

45-Year-Old Woman Arrested in Connection to Death of 1-Year-Old Boy: Childminder Suspected

45-Year-Old Woman Arrested in Connection to Death of 1-Year-Old Boy: Childminder Suspected

A 45-year-old woman was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of possible involvement in the death of a 1-year-old boy in June 2022. The woman was the child’s childminder. The child became unwell while staying at a childcare center in the municipality of Alphen-Chaam. The 1-year-old was taken to a hospital and died two days later. … Read more

The Growing Shortage of Speech Therapists: Long Waiting Lists and Distressing Cases for Children

The Growing Shortage of Speech Therapists: Long Waiting Lists and Distressing Cases for Children

Jan 18, 2024 at 5:00 am The demand for speech therapy continues to increase, but the shortage of speech therapists is growing, concludes the Nivel health institute. As a result, there are long waiting lists and distressing cases of children who are not helped, for example with their language development disorder. In brief There is … Read more

Health Insurance Switching Rates Drop at the End of 2023: What’s Behind the Trend?

Health Insurance Switching Rates Drop at the End of 2023: What’s Behind the Trend?

Jan 9, 2024 at 11:26 am Just before New Year’s Eve, a lot fewer policyholders exchanged their health insurance for another one than a year earlier. At the end of 2023, 1.2 million Dutch people switched, 6.5 percent of the total number of insured people. At the end of 2022, there was still a record … Read more

RIVM bans artificial nails for childcare workers: Employees and nail stylists outraged

RIVM bans artificial nails for childcare workers: Employees and nail stylists outraged

Having to give up your artificial nails because you work with children. Since last summer, this has been the rule for employees of crèches, after-school care centers and playgroups. It makes the employees themselves angry, but many nail stylists also do not understand the ban. “I sometimes see the hands of people without artificial nails … Read more

Jordy Capello’s Family Left in the Cold after House Fire: Enexis Fails to Restore Electricity (Photos)

Jordy Capello’s Family Left in the Cold after House Fire: Enexis Fails to Restore Electricity (Photos)

Jordy Capello in the charred hallway of his parental home (photo: Omroep Brabant). Jordy’s cold sister (photo: Omroep Brabant). The ceiling was also severely damaged (photo: Omroep Brabant).Next 1/3 Jordy Capello in the charred hallway of his parental home (photo: Omroep Brabant). Suddenly it is cold in our country and that is exactly what Jordy … Read more

Junior Doctors’ Strike at St Thomas’ Hospital in London Sparks Concerns for NHS Patient Safety

Junior Doctors’ Strike at St Thomas’ Hospital in London Sparks Concerns for NHS Patient Safety

AFPYoung doctors at St Thomas’ Hospital in London on the first day of the strike NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 11:41 Starting today, junior doctors in England will be off work for six days. This makes it the longest strike in the 75-year history of the British public healthcare system, the National Health Service (NHS). Interest groups warn … Read more