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The invisible burden of the pandemic

Writing about my perspective on the COVID-19 pandemic has been on my mind for some time.

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In Memoriam Anneke Brand

Picture: Ineke Oostveen

 

On Sunday, November 21, 2021, Anneke Brand, MD, PhD, emeritus professor at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), passed away suddenly. The European Hematology Association community is deeply saddened by Anneke’s passing.

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Help disseminate IVDR Questionnaire - Share with diagnostic laboratories in your network

The new EU Regulation on in vitro diagnostic medical devices (IVDR) will come into full effect per May 26, 2022 and will have substantial consequences for diagnostic laboratories.

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“Complement-ing” positive outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic

Dr Dimitrios Mastellos (@dmastellos)

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on research worldwide. Multiple projects have been halted and researchers have lost their jobs.

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Turning thoughts into reality

Turning thoughts into reality
By Dr Adi Zoref (@ZorefAdi)

I am an Israeli physician, trained in internal medicine. During my residency rotation in hematology at Meir Medical Center, I met a patient who changed my life.

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EU health policy: limited scope, high ambition

Over the past decades, the European Union (EU) has become more involved in public health policy. A recent study showed that a majority of policymakers even identifies EU health policy as a priority for 2020-20241.

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Current status of the Clinical Trials Regulation

HemAffairs Article #2 – June 2019

In 2014 the European Parliament approved the Clinical Trials Regulation (CTR) that is supposed to replace the Clinical Trials Directive (CTD) from 2001. Five years later, the regulation has not yet become applicable.

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HARMONY: Big data for better and faster treatment

HARMONY Alliance: A European Network of Excellence for Big Data in Hematology - Enabling Better and Faster Treatment based on Big Data technologies
Despite data being a key driver for modern evidence-based medicine, we have been struggling with the same challenge for…

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New data exchange platform on rare diseases

The European Commission (EC) launched a new online knowledge-sharing platform – the European Platform on Rare Disease Registration (EU RD Platform) – on February 28, 2019.

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Major changes needed for patients to benefit from precision medicine

Precision medicine approaches the treatment of a disease via an individual’s genes, environment, and lifestyle.

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