The review below was written by Roy Salden, resident anesthesiology Utrecht, and participant of the first edition of Mountain Medicine Winter Edition. Can’t wait to go yourself after reading his […]

The theme of the latest edition of the Hoogtelijn (mountaineering magazine of the Royal Dutch Climbing and Mountaineering Association) is Ultra – an adjective increasingly used in the world of […]

In the early morning of February 6th, residents of Turkey and Syria were struck by a powerful earthquake, followed by an aftershock 9 hours later. The epicenters were located close […]

Most people understand that spending time in space causes the breakdown of muscle. But did you know that astronauts are at greater risk of developing a back hernia? And that […]

I remember well when Joost Hopman, a medical microbiologist at Radboud UMC, lectured on an Outdoor Medicine day about parasites. With tremendous fascination and admiration for nature, he presented “phenomenal […]