UMC Utrecht

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Gurneys in a hospital corridor
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Societal change behind increase in euthanasia; Doctors experience more pressure
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Doctor measuring a patient
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Poisonings from injectable weight-loss drugs double to 149 cases in the Netherlands
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An Amsterdam UMC neurosurgeon using HoloScene mixed reality glasses to project a hologram of the brain onto a patient's head during brain surgery, January 2027
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World first: Amsterdam UMC surgeon performs brain surgery using "mixed reality" hologram
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Helicopter ambulance
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Record calls, injuries, fireworks incidents mark New Year’s Eve in the Netherlands
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UMC Utrecht
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UMC Utrecht launches €4 million study on virus therapy for antibiotic-resistant UTIs
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Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre
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Radboudumc tops Dutch hospital rankings as Anna Ziekenhuis leads in patient experience
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Woman holding a reusable travel mug for coffee
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No coffee at Utrecht offices, schools due to contaminated water
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A handful of Paxlovid pills, a medication to treat Covid-19
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COVID-19 and flu may reactivate dormant cancer cells, study finds
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Long Covid
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Four more academic hospitals to open centers that provide specialized Long Covid care
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Ozempic
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Ozempic overdose: More poisonings with weight loss drugs
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Inside the Novavax research and development facility in Gaithersburg, Maryland. September 24, 2020
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Saliva can show severity of respiratory infection in children: Dutch study
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A woman makes a line of the designer drug, 3-Methylmethcathinone, better known as 3-MMC, on a mirror. October 2021
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Designer drug 3-MMC overdoses nearly doubled last year, despite ban
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Scientists at work
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Five groups of scientists to split a sum of 174 million euros in grants
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Long Covid
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Netherlands to lead major study to test existing medications for long Covid treatment
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UMC Utrecht
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UMC Utrecht also victim of company accused of fraud with EU research grants
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Children's hospital
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Health Min.'s plan to centralize pediatric heart surgery can move forward, court rules
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Gurneys in a hospital corridor
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Breakthrough in treatment of patients with kidney failure; UMC Utrecht study
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Baby in the hospital
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Breakthrough against RS virus: Two safe, effective vaccines developed
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A passenger train from NS derailed in Voorschoten after colliding with a BAM maintenance crane. A DB Freight train in the background struck the crane first in the fatal accident. 4 April 2023
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No trains between Leiden - The Hague for at least a week after fatal crash; 9 hospitalized
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MRI
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Strongest MRI in the world to be built in Netherlands
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HIV awareness ribbon
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Third European officially cured of HIV: Utrecht researchers
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Surgery room
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It's safe to keep drinking fluids until shortly before surgery: Utrecht study
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Hospital corridor
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Psychiatric patients may be extra vulnerable to Covid-19: study
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Child wearing noise-blocking headphones
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Experts worried about increase in young people with tinnitus