06 March 2024 at 22:33 The supervisory board of the LUMC will take measures against two employees and a former employee of the Leiden hospital for subsidy fraud. The case has no consequences for the current top of the LUMC. Report that Follow the Money in Broadcasting West. There had been signals for some time … Read more
Omroep WestHet LUMC. In association with Broadcasting West NOS Nieuws•gisteren, 20:44 Pancras Hogendoorn is permanently stepping down as dean and vice-chairman of the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). Hogendoorn temporarily resigned from his duties in November after reports of fraud involving European subsidies. From a publication by Follow the Money and Broadcasting West it turned … Read more
The vice-chairman of the LUMC board of directors is temporarily resigning from his position. Pancras Hogendoorn does this after reporting from Broadcasting West in Follow the Moneywhich shows that he was aware of fraud through European research subsidies. Broadcasting West in Follow the Money write on Saturday that Hogendoorn was informed at the end of … Read more
Making a good MRI scan of the eye was always very difficult until seven years ago. “That’s because the eye is very mobile and because there is a lot of bone around the eye, which interferes with the MRI,” explains Teresa Gonçalves Ferreira in the NOS Radio 1 Journal. ‘As a radiologist, I then decided … Read more
ANP News from the NOS•today, 12:57 Researchers at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) think they know how to prevent rheumatism. They are working on a major study together with Portuguese and Croatian scientists, for which they will receive a € 10 million European grant. Researchers found that in the years before symptoms developed, rheumatism patients … Read more
Malaria parasites, or much more precisely sporozoites, wait around in the mosquito’s salivary glands until finally it bites a human. They then locate their way as a result of the blood to the liver, where they nest and multiply. It can do this undisturbed due to the fact the parasite manages to escape from equally … Read more
‘It has been thought for some time that T cells can play an important role in clearing the virus, but we are now the first to really demonstrate it,’ says lead researcher Ramon Arens of the LUMC. He and his colleagues did this with experiments on mice. The third vaccination showed that those T cells … Read more
– Professor of Vascular Medicine Erik Klok of the LUMC.© Photo by Arno Massee – Wilfred Simons Today at 07:00- Leiden The LUMC is developing an app that should help doctors in the consulting room to guide patients with cancer in their final phase of life. Central to this is the discussion about the use … Read more
Close monitoring Bleeding under the dura mater is often caused by an accident. The consequences can be life-threatening, as the bleeding presses on the brain. There are two treatment methods to combat this. Emergency surgery is often chosen. A bone hatch is sawn out of the skull to remove the bleeding. Another treatment strategy is … Read more
LEIDEN – Although spring has been in full swing for a few weeks and the cold winter days have been exchanged for warm spring sun, a remarkably late flu wave is sweeping the country. For two years, the influenza virus was kept at bay thanks to the corona measures, so that it is now catching … Read more