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'The patient as a partner, the patient as a co-producer in healthcare, the patient as a decision maker: self-management and ownership are common terms in healthcare policy. Many people are simply incapable of managing their own health in a proactive way.

Cinderella Therapeutics Foundation and Maastricht University's User Research Center (URC) jointly developed so-called tapering strips to slowly and safely taper off drug doses. Some health insurers, however, are refusing to cover the cost of these strips in their basic health insurance policies.

One in three addicts suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). To ensure that addicts reap lasting treatment benefits, it's often necessary to treat them for underlying traumas as well...

Prof. dr. mr. Kid Schwarz in Magna Charta - Leading men in ondernemingsrecht

Effective 1 May, Jan Cobbenhagen will be the new Chief Executive Officer of the Brightlands Maastricht Health Campus (BL MHC).  

Researchers at the MERLN Institute for Technology-Inspired Regenerative Medicine at Maastricht University have developed a smarter method for growing human tissues in laboratories. This method cleverly stimulates the natural self-organising capacity of stem cells to form complex tissues.

‘Our excessive individualism is at the root of the unwillingness to solve environmental problems.

Professor Philippe Lambin of Maastricht UMC+ and the Maastro Clinic has been awarded a prestigious Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC).

If COPD can be detected at an earlier stage in healthy people, this can improve treatment and may lead to lower direct health care costs.