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University hospitals urgently call for more European collaboration to prevent drug shortages

31 March 2020

Hospitals are rapidly running out of essential drugs for treating COVID patients in intensive care units. In the absence of European collaboration to ensure a steady supply of these drugs, front line COVID hospitals may no longer be able to provide adequate intensive care in one to two weeks from now.

Call: laptops, tablets and smartphones for patients

26 March 2020

To bring our patients in touch with the home front, we want to call on individuals, wholesalers or retail businesses to donate ICT equipment.

“Free movement of goods is essential to fight the corona pandemic”

20 March 2020

De European University Hospital Alliance (EUHA) , is sounding the alarm and urging that European rules on the open market be respected even in times of crisis. This is necessary to ensure a smooth supply of medical equipment.

Watch out for incorrect nutritional recommendations to prevent or cure COVID-19

18 March 2020

Flemish nutritional and other sciencists have asked attentio for the scores of nutritional recommendations on social media to supposedly prevent or remedy COVID-19. The majority of these recommendation has no proven effect.

Collaboration is a life-saver for patients with a rare disease

28 February 2020

To give patients with disease the best possible care, national and international cooperation is crucial. UZ Leuven is the leader both in Belgium and Europe, as a member of 19 European Reference Networks and chairman of 7 of the first 11 Flemish networks per rare disease cluster.

Efficacy of deep brain stimulation in obsessive-compulsive disorder

7 February 2020

A recent real-world study confirms that deep brain stimulation is a successful and well-supported treatment for patients with an obsessive-compulsive disorder. The trial included various European centres all trained by a UZ Leuven and UPC KU Leuven team.

Top Employer 2020

4 February 2020

For the twelfth time UZ Leuven has been awarded the Top Employer certification. This is an acknowledgement for companies with a strong HR policy. Every year the Top Employers Institute recognises companies worldwide that are dedicated to creating an excellent HR policy for its employees.

Big data via wearable sensors set to revolutionise heart disease

23 January 2020

An international research project led by UZ Leuven and the KU Leuven is one of the four shortlisted projects competing for a 35 million euro award of the British Heart Foundation. The objective of the project is to develop smart wearable sensors and other technology for heart diseases.

Puzzle helps children to understand their rare genetic disorder

16 January 2020

The Leuven remedial educationalist Ann Swillen developed Piecing the puzzle together, an interactive information package for children with a rare genetic disorder. The object is primarily to stimulate the children, as well as the parents, brothers and sisters, to talk openly about the complex disease.

Leuven researchers to start large scale cultivation of biological bone tissue

3 January 2020

Researchers have succeeded in cultivating biological bone tissue in the same way bone tissue is formed in an embryo. "With this method, we expect the first live implants in patients in four years' time”.

Sharing medical data between hospitals

24 December 2019

Nexuzhealth is a medical partnership between a number of Flemish hospitals. Care providers in nexuzhealth hospitals share patients’ medical dossiers electronically. In the interest of patients, hospitals are legally obliged to maintain patient dossiers that include as much information as possible.

Maintenance therapy for ovarian cancer also effective in other patient groups

23 December 2019

On 19 December, the New England Journal of Medicine, a leading medical publication, published two studies which Prof. dr. Ignace Vergote, head of gynaecology and obstetrics at UZ Leuven, participated in. This relates to 2 phase 3 clinical studies investigating the impact of an existing therapy advanced ovarian cancer.