News

5 March 2024
For the sixth year in a row, the American magazine Newsweek and the data platform Statista drew up a list of the world's best hospitals: World's Best Hospitals 2024. In it, UZ Leuven is the first Belgian hospital in position 44, achieving a top score of 93.17%.
12 February 2024
Did you know that more than 60,000 people in Belgium suffer from epilepsy and that the disorder is not that rare at all? And that an epileptic seizure is certainly not always accompanied by convulsions? Paediatric neurologist prof. dr. Katrien Jansen helps dispel five myths about epilepsy.
9 February 2024
Good news for patientst with irritable bowel syndrome: a recent study, coordinated by UZ Leuven, has shown that the allergy medication ebastine can reduce the symptoms of the disorder.
12 January 2024
Leuven researchers used single cell technology to look at the deepest level of the cells in the tumour and discovered a biomarker that can predict whether a patient with liver cancer will react to immunotherapy or not. The study was published in Nature Communications.
9 January 2024
Leuven researchers have developed a new way to make immunotherapy work better for melanoma patients that are currently not reacting to their treatment. By targeting a specific type of melanoma cells, the reaction to immunotherapy can be improved.
3 January 2024
The European research project Little Nirvana, with the support of both KU Leuven and UZ Leuven, examines how gaming technology can distract children that have to undergo painful procedures. Little Nirvana has since been successfully tested in more than 100 patients, including at UZ Leuven.
20 December 2023
A team of UZ Leuven doctors has recently replaced all abdominal organs in a toddler for the first time in Belgium: stomach, liver, pancreas as well as the small intestine were transplanted in one procedure. The young patient was successfully operated on and is doing well.
11 December 2023
As of 1 January 2024, the reimbursement of cochlear implants for children and youngsters with severe loss of hearing or deafness will be extended. As part of that decision, Minister for Social Affairs and Public Health Frank Vandenbroucke paid UZ Leuven a visit.
30 November 2023
A week ago, UZ Leuven signed the first Leuven Climate Contract: 10 pioneering guiding principles, more than 30 partners, 86 break-through projects met actual commitments and a financial strategy, brought together to accelerate Leuven's readiness for climate neutrality by 2030.
23 November 2023
The federal department of justice has recognised the UZ Leuven department of forensic medicine as the first forensic medical institute (FMI) of our country. The additional financial support and the recognition as a centre of expertise are a big leap forward for forensic medicine in Belgium.
13 November 2023
UZ Leuven is set to become one of the six reference hospitals for AYA care, and that is good news: as of 1 December 2023, the new agreement with NIHDI will ensure that we will be able to provide even better age-specific care and support to adolescents and young adults with cancer.
9 November 2023
A remarkable study describes the first known case of a baby that developed serious side effects after the mother received immunotherapy during pregnancy. Doctors stress that the choice for immunotherapy in pregnant women needs to be carefully considered and that babies need close and long-term follow-up after birth.