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KWF awards €723,000 for ten-year follow-up of NET-QUBIC cohort NET-QUBIC received €723,000 from KWF Dutch Cancer Society to investigate the long-term consequences of head and neck cancer and its treatment. The grant enables a ten-year follow-up of participants in the NET-QUBIC cohort.

New data resource profile describes GPD-ANHA A new data resource profile in the International Journal of Epidemiology describes the General Practice Database – Amsterdam, North Holland, Almere (GPD-ANHA). This large, dynamic cohort contains routinely collected primary care data and supports research aimed at improving the quality and delivery of primary care.

Hearing loss affects much more than hearing alone Hearing loss can affect much more than hearing alone. Since 2006, the Netherlands Longitudinal Study on Hearing (NL-SH) has explored how it relates to social connections, mental well-being, energy levels and functioning at work.

Fifty years of cohort research in type 2 diabetes A narrative review published in Diabetologia examines how observational cohort studies have contributed to our understanding of type 2 diabetes over the past five decades.

Managing Stress and Social Pain in Autistic Individuals New research using data from the Netherlands Autism Register (NAR) shows that autistic adults respond more strongly to social rejection and exclusion on average than non-autistic adults. This sensitivity to ‘social pain’ is particularly associated with lower self-esteem.

No uniform post-pandemic pattern in youth mental health The mental health and wellbeing of children and adolescents have not uniformly returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to a new preprint using data from the DREAMS COVID consortium.

Training sessions: Collaborating with people with lived experience in research The Netherlands Autism Register (NAR) offers training sessions for researchers and people with lived experience from the ACH cohorts. This is part of the ABOUT project (ABOUT – Nothing About Us Without Us), an initiative aimed at expanding co-creation to other research cohorts in the Netherlands.

Fewer MRI scans may be needed for people with stable MS on ocrelizumab A new study involving a large group of patients from the Amsterdam MS Cohort found that annual MRI scans only rarely detected new inflammatory disease activity.

Health-RI LSRIs Webinar: The FAIRDOM-SEEK for FAIR Metadata Exchange across Life Science Research Infrastructures On Thursday September 24, 2026, Health-RI organizes an webinar about FAIRDOM-SEEK, an open-source platform that helps life sciences researchers manage, share, integrate and reuse diverse research data in accordance with FAIR principles and domain-specific standards.

Type 2 diabetes in people of African ancestry: a different disease process in lean patients Research by Amsterdam UMC and the University of Ghana shows that lean patients with type 2 diabetes in Africa have a different form of the disease than patients who are overweight.

Lianne de Vries receives Veni grant for research on stress and resilience in adolescence Biological psychologist Lianne de Vries has received a Veni grant for her research project ‘From Stress to Resilience: Causes and Consequences in Adolescence’.

Lifestyle and health factors shape plasma metabolite levels over time New research using data from the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA) shows how demographic, health and lifestyle factors are associated with plasma metabolite levels and how these levels change over time.

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