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Results bolster case for more widespread screening of heavy smokers who are at higher risk, researchers say. Screening for lung cancer reduces deaths among current and former heavy smokers, according to a new study that adds to the evidence supporting wider testing.

Exitscenarios: There still is no way out of this crisis. Scientists collaborate with the National Institute of Public Health to come up with the best exit strategy for the pandemic. Such a strategy can easily take one to two years. One sneeze, one cough and the virus may strike again. (please note: this is a…

A healthy lifestyle and obesitas are only partly a medical problem. Frank van Lenthe, professor social epidemiology, argues that policy makers can do more than they think.

The COVID-19 pandemic created a mount of suspended operating room procedures. In the Erasmus MC alone, 5000 patients are awaiting their procedures. The question health care planners face is, whom to serve first? The hospital is working on an answer.