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Researching Harmful Noise in the Workplace
Factory workers, teachers, police officers and pilots all have to deal with noisy work environments. These environments means that they have to make extra effort to properly understand what is being said. But how do you measure whether that effort costs them so much that it leads to stress and fatigue, or to absenteeism due to illness or even to an unsafe environment? Researchers Adriana Zekveld and Sophia Kramer from Amsterdam UMC will investigate this.
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Anatomsiche Les 2023: A molecular anatomy lesson
391 years ago, in the centre of Amsterdam, Nicolaes Tulp presented an arm's worth of tendons to his audience. One of which was Rembrandt van Rijn. What followed was one of the Dutch artist's masterpieces, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp. Fast forward to November 2023, when Professor Iain McInnes will present his own arm's worth of tendons and deliver Amsterdam UMC's 30th Anatomy Lesson.
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Charles Agyemang elected to the US National Academy of Medicine
Charles Agyemang, Professor of Global Migration, Ethnicity & Health, has been invited to join the US National Academy of Medicine. Making him one of only 6 current members in the Netherlands and the second from Amsterdam UMC, after the late Henk Lamberts.
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Approaches to elderly care vary greatly across Europe
For elderly patients receiving care at home there are a myriad of interventions, from doctor's visits to the use of technological interventions. Research from Amsterdam UMC, together with universities from five European countries, shows that the use of these interventions varies greatly across the continent. Emiel Hoogendijk, assistant professor at Amsterdam UMC, believes that these discrepancies demonstrate the need for a "collective European approach".
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Lasker Award for Piet Borst
Piet Borst, emeritus professor of clinical biochemistry and molecular biology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Amsterdam, has received 2023 Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science. He receives this 'American Nobel Prize' thanks to his numerous scientific discoveries in the field of cancer.
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Elite athletes safely return to sports after COVID-19
Heart problems after a COVID infection are a serious concern for both elite athletes and recreational athletes alike. A study from Amsterdam UMC, published today in Heart, offers some reassuring news. "We examined over 250 elite athletes and found that those who had contracted COVID-19 did not experience severe heart issues that impacted their careers," says Juliette van Hattum, a PhD candidate in sports cardiology at Amsterdam UMC.
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Home-monitoring during IVF equally safe and successful
Home monitoring of ovulation prior to placing frozen embryos during an IVF process works just as well as hospital checks to determine the best time. In addition, it is more pleasant for women to undergo this in their own environment, and it places less burden on the hospital facilities. "Monitoring ovulation at home means a hospital visit once for the placement of these embryos instead of 3 to 4 times for hospital monitoring. This is more sustainable and reduces the cost of treatment by up to 80%," says Tijtske Zaat, researcher at Amsterdam UMC. The study was published today in The Lancet.
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Building models to enable greater use of AI in the health care system
80% of all patient data is unstructured. Notes from a conversation with a GP, the evaluation of a specialist in a university medical centre or even a recommendation from a pharmacist. While this 'unstructured’ data is no problem for the human eye, it presents an unsurmountable challenge to an AI-algorithm. One that is "preventing AI from reaching its full potential," in the view of Amsterdam UMC, Assistant Professor Iacer Calixto. To give AI the helping hand that it needs, Calixto is set to lead a project that will "tackle the important challenges that hinder its use in clinical practice,” thanks to funding from the NWO.
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Scoring forms in Italian
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Education
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Trials Neuro-Oncology & Neurotoxicity
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The CODEL trial
