Eveline van Ham, a mother of three from Eindhoven, Netherlands, is struggling after her husband died of esophageal cancer and her newborn son was diagnosed with a rare condition. She has had to arrange a piggy bank to pay for her children’s education and any necessary house modifications. She also misses her work but is unable to return due to her son’s condition. She hopes to get an epilepsy dog for her son, but the cost is high. Despite the challenges, Eveline remains strong and prioritizes her children’s well-being.

Eveline van Ham, a mother of three from Eindhoven, Netherlands, is struggling after her husband died of esophageal cancer and her newborn son was diagnosed with a rare condition. She has had to arrange a piggy bank to pay for her children’s education and any necessary house modifications. She also misses her work but is unable to return due to her son’s condition. She hopes to get an epilepsy dog for her son, but the cost is high. Despite the challenges, Eveline remains strong and prioritizes her children’s well-being.

Due to a bizarre accumulation of setbacks, 40-year-old Eveline van Ham from Eindhoven is in trouble. When her 44-year-old husband dies of esophageal cancer a year and a half ago, she is left alone with three small children. Not much later, their newborn son Olivier turns out to have a very rare condition. As a … Read more

Investigation of the control room of coronaviruses

Investigation of the control room of coronaviruses

Facts Science & Education March 10, 2023 Last updated: March 09, 2023 Coronaviruses use infected cells to replicate themselves and make new virus particles Coronaviruses hijack parts of our cells and turn them into a control room in which they multiply. This fortress also protects the virus against defense reactions of our body. With an … Read more

Stories behind the covid figures ‘Behind a mask of sadness’

Stories behind the covid figures ‘Behind a mask of sadness’

The booklet is a kind of monument for the relatives and caregivers The first patient with corona in the Netherlands, three years ago this week. It marked the start of two incredible years. The corona crisis, so visible due to the mandatory mouth masks and all the other protective measures that came with it, is … Read more

Promising results new vaccination strategy with whole coronavirus

Promising results new vaccination strategy with whole coronavirus

This strategy may provide better and longer-lasting protection than the current corona vaccines Researchers at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) have made a MERS corona vaccine with the entire virus instead of just the spike protein. The candidate vaccine provides strong protection against the MERS coronavirus in a mouse model. This strategy may provide … Read more

Minister sticks to decision: UMCG children’s heart center remains open (update)

Minister sticks to decision: UMCG children’s heart center remains open (update)

Why from four to two pediatric heart centersEvery year, about 1,400 complex operations are performed on children and adults with a congenital heart defect. In about two hundred cases, it concerns newborn babies. According to the standards, that number is too low to keep the surgeons’ knowledge and experience in order. There are also fewer … Read more

Concern over heart disease, radiation treatment for breast cancer, lowering concerns with ‘breathholding’

Concern over heart disease, radiation treatment for breast cancer, lowering concerns with ‘breathholding’

Breast cancer has a very high incidence. If you look at the ‘2019 National Cancer Registration Project Annual Report’, breast cancer is the most common cancer after thyroid cancer in women. Fortunately, it is a cancer with a high survival rate, with a 5-year survival rate of 93.6% from 2015 to 2019. As the survival … Read more

Vaccination campaign mpox completed

Vaccination campaign mpox completed

Facts Anders February 17, 2023 Last updated: February 17, 2023 In the spring of 2022, there was evidence of the spread of mpox in Europe for the first time More than 18 thousand people in the Netherlands have received one or more vaccinations against mpox. The vaccination campaign was completed last month. This campaign started … Read more

Tamara refused help for months, but she no longer lives in her car

Tamara refused help for months, but she no longer lives in her car

Tamara from Oss, who lived for months in a car at the Spoorlaan in Oss, was taken to hospital by ambulance on Monday evening. Her car and the rubbish she had collected in it were removed by the municipality. “She was examined extensively, then she was allowed to leave the hospital,” BrabantWonen and the municipality … Read more

Dutch nurse in disaster area: ‘As if all of Rotterdam is flat’

Dutch nurse in disaster area: ‘As if all of Rotterdam is flat’

Own picture Dick Hollaar at work in the hospital in Kahramanmaras NOS News•today, 10:36 On Thursday evening, Dick Hollaar had a late shift at the Rotterdam ambulance service. A few hours later, he and about thirty other aid workers from all over the Netherlands were waiting at Schiphol for a flight to Turkey. Their goal: … Read more