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Workout in the morning or afternoon?
02-01-2023At what time of day is the best time to exercise? Scientists Patrick Schrauwen and Mathijs Hesselink are trying to find out through research.
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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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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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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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Faster after a sip of beet juice?
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Prof. Frans Verhey appointed Officer in the Order of Oranje-Nassau
20-05-2022Prof. Frans Verhey appointed Officer in the Order of Oranje-Nassau
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Aantal mensen met overgewicht stijgt: Verleiding ongezonde producten te groot'
19-05-2022Het aantal mensen met overgewicht en diabetes stijgt. Om te bepalen of iemand te zwaar is, wordt gekeken naar de BMI. Maar wat zegt je BMI eigenlijk over je gezondheid? En wat kan de overheid doen om het aantal mensen met overgewicht terug te dringen? Obesitas-onderzoeker Gijs Goossens vertelt erover in een interview met nu.nl.
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Study: 'Border traffic hardly affects spread of coronavirus in border region'
02-05-2022Discouraging border traffic or actually "closing" border crossings has had little effect on the spread of the coronavirus in recent years.
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