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DNA characteristics can help predict the risk of cervical cancer
DNA characteristics can help predict the risk of cervical cancer

DNA methylation-guided prediction of clinical regression of cervical precancerous lesions
Hilgo Bruining argues to work forward from development instead of backward from behavioral definitions
Hilgo Bruining argues to work forward from development instead of backward from behavioral definitions

For severe developmental disabilities, we must dare to break with simplifications such as autism and ADHD, and reverse the perspective. Hilgo Bruining will deliver his inaugural lecture on May 18, 2022, at the University of Amsterdam.

More insight into the effect of treatment for non-specific lower back pain
More insight into the effect of treatment for non-specific lower back pain

Article of Alessandro Chiarotto published in The New England Journal of Medicine
More home births during the COVID-19 pandemic
More home births during the COVID-19 pandemic

During the COVID-19 pandemic, more women gave birth at home than the year before. The health outcomes for mother and child remained the same. This is the result of research by the Department Midwifery Science of Amsterdam UMC, UMC Groningen and the Midwifery Academy Amsterdam Groningen (AVAG).
Children in Africa and Asia have high risk of death within six months after hospitalization
Children in Africa and Asia have high risk of death within six months after hospitalization

Nearly half of the children die after they leave the hospital. "This calls for improvement," says APH researcher Wieger Voskuijl (pediatrician at Emma Children's Hospital, Amsterdam UMC), part of the CHAIN project.
Gravitation Grant of 22 million euros for research into growing up ‘successfully’ of young people
Gravitation Grant of 22 million euros for research into growing up ‘successfully’ of young people

Researchers from Amsterdam UMC, as part of the Growing Up Together in Society (GUTS) consortium, receive 22 million euros to discover how young people can grow up successfully and contribute to the current and future society.
Gravitation Grant of 19.6 million euros for research into stress
Gravitation Grant of 19.6 million euros for research into stress

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Amsterdam UMC have received the Gravitation Grant for the development of new methods to measure stress in daily life as well as to reduce it and thereby prevent the development of stress-related diseases.

ERC grant for Eus van Someren to combine insomnia and anxiety research
ERC grant for Eus van Someren to combine insomnia and anxiety research

Anxiety disorders and chronic insomnia are the two most common psychiatric conditions. A team of sleep researchers, led by professor Eus van Someren will now study these two disorders in combination.
ZonMw grant for Niels Waterval
ZonMw grant for Niels Waterval

'Proper use of home care aids'