http://countries.diplomatie.belgium.be/en/azerbaijan/rss.jsp http://countries.diplomatie.belgium.be/en/newsroom/belgium_unlimited/science/2011/ni_2012-03-12_machoire.jsp 12 March 2012 02:03:00 The University of Hasselt announced news last month of the first successful lower jaw transplant to utilise 3D printing technology. The infected lower jaw of an 83 year-old woman was surgically replaced with a titanium replica. The research group at the University of Hasselt Biomed research institute developed this new procedure in collaboration with XIOS College, the KU Leuven, the Mouth, Jaw and Face surgeons at Orbis Medical Centre in Sittard-Geleen (Netherlands), Xilloc Medical BV (Maastricht, Netherlands) and LayerWise NV. http://countries.diplomatie.belgium.be/en/newsroom/belgium_unlimited/science/2011/ni_2012-03-12_hiv.jsp 12 March 2012 10:12:00 Scientists at the Institute for Tropical Medicine, the University of Antwerp and Antwerp University Hospital have successfully developed a new vaccine to combat the HIV virus. The vaccine was tested on volunteers. http://countries.diplomatie.belgium.be/en/newsroom/belgium_unlimited/science/2011/ni_2011-09-15_imec.jsp 15 September 2011 10:13:00 The award, sponsored by IEEE, recognizes Imec for continuous contributions to the standard integrated circuit technology complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) and for innovations in global business development and university-industry collaborations. The award has been presented on 20 August 2011 at the IEEE Honors Ceremony in San Francisco. http://countries.diplomatie.belgium.be/en/newsroom/belgium_unlimited/science/2011/ni_2011-09-13_arabiesaoudite.jsp 14 September 2011 03:13:00 Given that Belgium is ranked world first in the field of healthcare in the Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011 published by the World Economic Forum, the Federation of Belgian Enterprises (FBE) is attempting to develop new spheres of international cooperation in the medical sector by establishing cooperation partnerships with private and public partners around the world. http://countries.diplomatie.belgium.be/en/newsroom/belgium_unlimited/science/2011/ni_2011-08-29_awardnamurois.jsp 29 August 2011 10:10:00 This method enables, for example, the factors determining house prices at a commune level in Belgium to be studied. It is in fact important for such a study to not only be able to consider a correlation of property prices between different communes, but also variables (such as population density or income per inhabitant) which change over time and characteristics (such as the appeal of the commune, measured by different wellbeing indexes) considered constant, in the short and medium term, over time. http://countries.diplomatie.belgium.be/en/newsroom/belgium_unlimited/science/2011/ni_2011-08-25_maldetete.jsp 25 August 2011 09:36:00 There is new hope for sufferers of cluster headache, a headache so severe that it is also known as ‘suicide’ headache. A team of researchers at Liège University is currently testing a new treatment for sufferers of this chronic condition, which does not respond to available drug therapies. http://countries.diplomatie.belgium.be/en/newsroom/belgium_unlimited/science/2011/ni_2011-08-23_nurseaward.jsp 24 August 2011 04:31:00 The annual meeting of the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology took place in Stockholm in early July. Ten thousand researchers and health care providers in human reproduction and fertility came together to discuss recent developments in their field. Eline Dancet - midwife at Leuven University Hospital and doctoral student at Leuven University & Radboud University of Nijmegen - won the 2011 Nurses Award with her PhD thesis. She examines infertility care from the perspective of the patient in an international setting.