14 mrt 2023 om 05:00Update: 5 uur geleden Anesthetic gases are used less and less in Dutch hospitals. Instead of the well-known anesthesia cap, patients are more often given a more lasting sedation via the drip. In this way, hospitals want to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Until recently, anesthesia for a two-hour operation contributed…
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More and more hospitals are using sustainable intoxication instead of harmful anesthetic gas | climate
14 mrt 2023 om 05:00 Anesthetic gases are used less and less in Dutch hospitals. Instead of the well-known anesthesia cap, patients are more often given a more lasting sedation via the drip. In this way, hospitals want to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Until recently, anesthesia for a two-hour operation contributed about as much…
Sexual orientation no longer matters when donating blood from next year | Health
13 mrt 2023 om 17:12Update: een uur geleden From the beginning of next year it will no longer matter whether you are straight or gay if you want to donate blood. Sanquin Blood Bank will present everyone with an identical questionnaire about sexual behaviour. That still has to be approved by Minister Ernst Kuipers (Public…
Why women only let it be known that they have ADHD | Health
Adult women have been catching up in recent years when it comes to the number of diagnoses of ADHD. We asked two experts how this is possible. “Children who show difficult behavior to the outside world are simply noticed earlier.” Dat het zo lang kan duren voordat vrouwen de juiste diagnose krijgen, komt doordat er…
Half the world’s population overweight in 2035: does body positivity contribute to this? | login-required
If no measures are taken, more than half of the world’s population will be overweight or obese in twelve years’ time. Is the body positivity movement a major cause of all those extra pounds? Vrouwen die hun ‘ongefilterde’ lichamen met lillende vetrollen laten zien onder de hashtag #bodypositivitiy. De laatste jaren komen dit soort beelden…
Half the world’s population overweight in 2035: does ‘body positivity’ contribute to this? | login-required
If no measures are taken, more than half of the world’s population will be overweight or obese in twelve years’ time. Is the body positivity movement a major cause of all those extra pounds? Vrouwen die hun ‘ongefilterde’ lichamen met lillende vetrollen laten zien onder de hashtag ‘bodypositivitiy’. De laatste jaren komen dit soort beelden…
Nearly ten thousand young adults got an HPV shot without an appointment on Saturday | inland
06 mrt 2023 om 13:22 Nearly ten thousand young adults had an injection against the human papillomavirus (HPV) on Saturday on HPV Awareness Day, RIVM reports on Monday. Young people aged 19 to 27 could visit a GGD location without an appointment for a free vaccination against HPV. The virus can cause six types of…
RIVM already quite satisfied with the turnout for HPV vaccination: ‘Much less fake news’ | inland
02 mrt 2023 om 06:02 Of the more than 1.3 million young adults who are allowed to make an appointment for an HPV vaccination, more than 160,000 have already done so. The RIVM sees that there is more confidence and less fake news about the shot against cervical cancer, among other things, and calls the…
Too little space in Ronald McDonald Houses as children’s heart surgery centers close | inland
26 feb 2023 om 05:01Update: een uur geleden The guest houses of the Ronald McDonald Children’s Fund in Groningen and Rotterdam are probably too small if only the centers for pediatric heart surgery in those two cities remain open. If more parents want to sleep close to their sick child around an operation, the houses…
Temporary swimming ban: pill will soon put sperm cells to sleep | Health
American scientists are working on a pill that makes men temporarily infertile. The drug was recently tested on mice and shows promising results, according to a publication in the scientific journal Nature. The pill allows men to come, but the sperm cells can no longer swim. This is done by inhibiting the enzyme that allows…