Tag: UMC
Major exercise with collapsed parking garage at UMC Utrecht emergency hospital
Various emergency services from the region also participated in this annual exercise, such as the Utrecht Safety Region, the police, the Regional Ambulance Facility Utrecht and the Red Cross emergency…
UMC and UU researchers receive tons for research into cardiovascular diseases
Weaver will extensively analyze brain scans of almost three thousand people who have had a stroke. These scans show exactly where the damage occurred and how serious this damage is.…
UMC Utrecht researchers receive tons for research into cardiovascular diseases
Weaver will extensively analyze brain scans of almost three thousand people who have had a stroke. These scans show exactly where the damage occurred and how serious this damage is.…
UMC Utrecht reports doubling of poisonings by designer drug: ‘You don’t know what you’re taking’
The number of reports of poisonings with the drug 3-MMC almost doubled last year compared to the year before. This is evident from the 2023 annual report of the National…
Positive advice for UMC Utrecht: expansion of population screening for breast cancer one step closer
If Conny Helder, outgoing Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, grants a permit for the study, the seven-year process will start this autumn, according to Van Gils. According to the…
Judge annuls minister’s decision to close UMC Utrecht children’s heart center
Operations on congenital heart defects in children can now still be performed at four locations: at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, the UMC Groningen, the UMC Utrecht and in the…
UMC Utrecht is investigating new medicine to prevent corona deaths
The drug Sunrise-3 has already been developed, but is now in the testing phase. Professor of infectious diseases at UMC Utrecht Marc Bonten: “The research has two goals. One is…
Future of pediatric heart surgery UMC Utrecht at stake in court
The Netherlands currently has four centers for pediatric heart surgery, spread over five locations (Rotterdam, Groningen, Utrecht and a shared center in Leiden and Amsterdam). This care will be concentrated…
Antoinette wrote a thriller about abuses in the UMC: ‘My own experience made me think’
Kalkman’s daughter is now doing well again. She is satisfied with the treatment at Radboud. Still, the medical errors that came to light in Zembla made her think. “I can’t…
Children’s Heart Center UMC Utrecht is looking for cooperation and offers the minister an alternative plan
The teams from Utrecht and Leiden/Amsterdam will work from one team at two locations from the first quarter of 2024, according to the plans. “The concentration of rare interventions in…