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Donor heart waiting list stabilized by new donation method and UMCG collaboration
The waiting list for a donor heart has been stabilized by a new technique for heart donation, the Dutch Transplant Foundation (NTS) reported on Monday. Two years ago, the heart…
Minister may continue with plan for preservation of UMCG pediatric heart surgery
The plan of outgoing care minister Ernst Kuipers (D66) to centralize pediatric heart surgery may go ahead. The university medical centers of Utrecht and Leiden/Amsterdam had objected to this plan.…
Judge considers ‘pause button’ concentration of pediatric heart surgery in UMCG and Rotterdam
In the coming week, the court in Utrecht will consider whether the UMCG in Groningen and the Erasmus MC may continue with the preparations for concentration of pediatric heart surgery.…
UMCG hands out earplugs at the Rammstein concert. ‘Hearing damage is inevitable without caps’
Employees of the UMCG ENT department hand out free earplugs at the Rammstein concerts in the Stadspark. The department hopes to protect concertgoers from hearing damage with the earplugs. According…
UMCG researchers will cycle to Prague in four days to compensate for their colleagues’ air travel. How?
Colleagues choose the plane too easily when they have to go to a conference, researchers from the UMCG think. They cycle to Prague in four days. But how do they…
The interest of the inhabitants of the North plays a role in the decision on the UMCG children’s center offers hope | DVHN comments
Daan Schoonhoven (2) has a congenital heart defect and will have a different heart valve in the UMCG through heart surgery. Photo: Corné Sparidaens It did not happen by itself,…
Postcode Loterij donates 1 million euros to the construction of a cancer center next to UMCG Groningen
The Postcode Lottery is investing 1 million euros in the construction of the first Maggie’s Center in Groningen. This was announced on Thursday afternoon at the start of construction of…
Young people die in UMCG from infection and flesh-eating bacteria. Doctors: ‘We are used to something, but we are also impressed by this’
The Streptococcus pyogenes bacteria accounts for most cases of necrotizing soft tissue infection. Since mid-December, around ten very ill patients have been admitted to the UMCG in Groningen after an…
Report on the future of pediatric heart surgery expected. These are the scenarios that the UMCG in Groningen must hope for
Tickets in the Beatrix Children’s Hospital in the UMCG. Photo: Corné Sparidaens The Dutch Healthcare Authority (NZa) has been working on the report since early spring and will hand it…
Minister Kuipers will decide on pediatric heart surgery at the UMCG in early 2023
Health care minister Ernst Kuipers will take a decision early next year about the future of pediatric heart surgery in the Netherlands. It will then become clear whether this highly…