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Since early November UZ Leuven has been recycling CO₂ absorber canisters after use in the operating room. This way the hospital prevents 1,500 kilograms of soda lime and 180 kilograms of plastic from ending up in the incinerator every year. A partner company processes the plastic into raw material for new products and the breathing lime into agricultural soil improver.

Last week UZ Leuven used the brand new RAD-technique to irradiate a patient with breast cancer. RAD combines the advantages of two existing radiation techniques. This further protects the healthy tissue surrounding the tumour and reduces the treatment time.

1 december is World AIDS Day, which brings global attention to HIV prevention and solidarity with people living with HIV. Veerle Vandebos and Julie Printemps, nursing consultants at the HIV reference centre, talk about their job, the progress in treatment and prevention of HIV and the continuing stigma..

39th International Wintersymposium

39th International Wintersymposium