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Resilience important quality of healthy elderly
17-10-2022Professor Hilde Verbeek shares her opinion on healty ageing
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From ice cream to stew, why our eating habits change in autumn.
07-10-2022From ice cream to stew, why our eating habits change in autumn.
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Technology and equal opportunities in education
29-09-2022Technology can increase as well as decrease inequality in education. That is the conclusion of professor of education Carla Haelermans of the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA) in Maastricht. She conducted years of research on the subject and will deliver her inaugural address at Maastricht University on Friday 30 September.
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Menstruation is still a taboo in the workplace
28-09-2022In honour of the presentation of the VNVA Els Borst Prize for her oeuvre, Prof Marlies Bongers is organising the symposium "menstruation in RED on the agenda" on 1 October.
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Old taboos around poverty and money stress may now disappear
26-09-2022Old taboos around poverty and money stress may now disappear
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Repeat miscarriages: does the immune system play a role?
15-09-2022In women trying to conceive, 1-3% experience repeated miscarriages. For more than 50% of these women, a cause for the miscarriages has yet to be found. New research from Maastricht University (UM) and the Maastricht University Medical Centre+ (MUMC+) shows that the immune system’s Natural Killer (NK) cells may be involved. In women with repeated miscarriages, the NK cells have different characteristics.
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New European project aims to think outside the box when it comes to medicine
05-09-2022The European Commission has awarded €23 million to set up a new platform for drug repurposing: the use of existing drugs in diseases other than those for which they were originally developed. In the next seven years UM will develop the platform REPO4EU (precision drug REPurpOsing for Europe) together with various international partners. A congress in Maastricht held on 2-3 September kicked off the project.
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We need to consume less and more sustainably
22-08-2022Everyone notices it: prices are rising. Inflation has not been this high in years.