Health

VU alumnus Jacobine Geel studied Theology at the VU Amsterdam. Today, she combines her work on television with a position as President of the GGZ.

“During this outbreak, everything depends on the capacity of hospitals to provide people with artificial respiration.”

It is highly likely that our bodies contain microplastics, but are they also inside the cells of unborn children?

Theo van Tilburg, sociologist at the VU Amsterdam, has studied loneliness among elderly Dutch people.

The building in Zandvoort that once functioned as a church is now the backdrop for a special type of retreat sessions with psychedelic truffles.

Sandra Ysbrandy had worked her way up the ladder at Rabobank, however she decided to set a radical new course for her career.

Because of her migraines Mariëtte had to give up on her dreams: "I still hope for a miracle drug."

Berend Eberson hopes to encourage the rest of the Netherlands to get their day off to a healthy start by eating cauliflower.

A desire for exercise, but an inability to do so. For people with a spinal cord injury it's often the case. Rik Berkelmans wants this to change.

Testing blood several times a day is something diabetics have to deal with on a daily basis. If it’s up to Elizabeth von Hauff this will change.