Quentin Marsman 2020 is the year of COVID-19. The disease caused by the new coronavirus has been a major health concern in the first months of this year and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March [1]. The disease has led to lockdowns in multiple countries as a means to limit the spread of the virus. To touch upon the severity of the disease: on the 26th of May there were over 5.406.282 confirmed cases and 343.562 confirmed deaths [2]. In this brief message, … [Lees meer...]
Fifteenth edition – April 2020
The fifteenth edition is now available! From now on you can read this edition online. In this edition you can read about Post-orgasmic illness syndrome in men, Malaria and Parkinson's disease. Curious what else you can find in our fifteenth edition? Unfortunately due to the covid-19 epidemic this edition is only available online, so download the PDF via the link below. Online version Fifteenth edition - April 2020 Articles Post-orgasmic illness syndrome in men: A short insight Quentin … [Lees meer...]
Male contraception: a new alternative for couples?
Jelmer Raaijmakers We think it is self-evident that women make sure that they do not get pregnant, but is that a rational way of thinking? We might have been conditioned to think in that manner. It could be because women get pregnant, women give birth, and women use contraceptives. However, is it not weird and illogical to think of it that way? Might men be able to play a role in this? Women carry the burden of carrying the (unborn) child; there is nothing we can do to change that. … [Lees meer...]
Why mass media is captivated by coronavirus
Larissa Govers, BSc Not a day goes by that you are not confronted with coronavirus, albeit on the news, as a joke or because you got an email about it from your employer. The world is currently completely captivated by this disease, which shows symptoms such as cough, dyspnea fever and bilateral lung infiltrates [1]. But here I wonder, why does a flu-like disease have the ability to affect the global economic growth, while other diseases with significantly higher burdens get by unnoticed? For … [Lees meer...]
Is blinding not so important after all?
Larissa Govers, BSc When you want to study the effect of a therapeutic intervention, randomisation is the most reliable method to assess the real effect of the intervention. Randomisation is the process of assigning participants or experimental units to a certain treatment in a way that every unit has a known (equal) chance of being assigned to any of the groups. However, the results from these studies could still be biased due to systematic differences. Already from early on in our … [Lees meer...]