AMC - Academic Medical Center

AMC - Academic Medical Center | October 17, 2016

The AMC has started an investigation with VUMC to find out whether a blood test that can detect cancer can detect the disease after thrombosis or pulmonary embolism. Because thrombosis without apparent cause may be a signal that someone has cancer....

AMC - Academic Medical Center | October 14, 2016

The AMC is a brand new emergency department (ED) richer. The department is built to the latest insights on providing emergency care and the latest technological and architectural standards. Mayor Eberhard van der Laan of Amsterdam has opened the new emergency department Friday. Starting Tuesday, the first patients are welcome. The new emergency room is also the GP (HAP) established....

AMC - Academic Medical Center | October 14, 2016

In the AMC three new works are unveiled, designed for the new Urgent Care which opens today. The centerpiece is a video art work of almost thirty meters of artist Jacco Olivier. On a wall of thirty meters in length appear slowly shifting paint worlds, in a loop of nearly five hours. The work fills the entrance of this high-tech Urgent Care which the AMC explicitly provided digital art projects....

AMC - Academic Medical Center | October 05, 2016

AMC participates in the nationwide campaign 'Better care starts with good conversation. " The campaign aims to raise awareness among physicians and patients of the importance of deciding on the most appropriate treatment. decide together begins with a conversation between doctor and patient. In it they both have their own role. The doctor as a specialist in the medical field and patients as experts on their own life and situation....