The thirteenth edition is now available! From now on you can read this edition online. Download the PDF or get it in real life at the medical faculty building (in the bookshelf near the stairs at the entrance or at the study square). In this edition you can read about the effects of physical exercise and some articles that are intertwined with the topic of this year's Summer School, which focuses on cardiology. Curious what else you can find in our thirteenth edition? Grab your RAMS from the … [Read more...]
Pink elephants
Maaike Plug When reading the title, you will possibly think of the Belgian beer ‘Delirium Tremens’, which has a pink elephant as a logo. This beer is very popular among many students on the Friday afternoon drink at the Aesculaaf. But it is also the name of a type of delirium caused by withdrawal from alcohol. According to DSM-5, the criteria for delirium tremens are a reduction in heavy use of alcohol, two or more of the eight symptoms after reducing alcohol consumption, a decreased … [Read more...]
A good old nap
Naaz Shareef It is already May, the last month of spring. It is the month where spring flowers bloom massively. However, May is also known as the ‘’Better Sleep Month’’, according to the Better Sleep Council. The purpose of the Better Sleep Month is to raise awareness about sleeping better and the benefits of sleep. Students are familiar with sleep deprivation, for example when they are pulling an all-nighter or cramming for an exam. The first thing students do to catch up on sleep, is … [Read more...]
The Placebo Effect: Just a Trick?
Joyce Krekels Some time ago, I went to the RAMS symposium ‘Placebo effect: The Mind as Medicine’, where professor Andrea Evers and PhD student Judith Tekampe from Leiden University spoke about positive (placebo) and negative (nocebo) treatment effects that occur as a result of a patient’s expectations and beliefs about the effect of a certain treatment or its side effects (1). This urged me to dig a little bit deeper into the placebo effect and how it can be applied in the clinic. Remarkably, … [Read more...]
Twelfth edition of RAMS is now available!
The eleventh edition is now available! From now on you can read this edition online. Download the PDF or get it in real life at the medical faculty building (in the bookshelf near the stairs at the entrance or at the study square). In this edition, we introduce our newest rubric: time for innovation! Besides the newest rubric, you can read articles about, for example, whether light products can lead to losing weight or not. Moreover, the spreading of resistant bacteria is also argued in this … [Read more...]
The vaccination defamation
Guus Veldkamp The concept of vaccination has been around since the 18th century. It was a British doctor named Edward Jenner who first tried to use a scientific approach to controlling an infectious disease by the deliberate use of vaccination [1]. His work introduced the world to an entirely new concept of fighting diseases. A concept that is so common in these modern times, we cannot imagine a world without it. Or can we? Data from the National Institute for Public Health and the … [Read more...]
Eleventh edition of RAMS is now available!
The eleventh edition is now available! From now on you can read this edition online. Download the PDF or get it in real life at the medical faculty building (in the bookshelf near the stairs at the entrance or at the study square). This edition is a special editorial edition with articles about, for example, the broken heart syndrome and the effect of ritalin on studying. Moreover, we interviewed several researchers and PhD students at the Radboudumc to discover the latest trends in biomedical … [Read more...]
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