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With a score of 63, Maastricht University (UM) has been ranked as the country’s second best general university in the Keuzegids Masters 2016, which was published today.

As part of her PhD study at Maastricht UMC+, internist-in-training Marieke Rienks discovered that three specific proteins play an important role in heart inflammation.

The Netherlands Heart Foundation (Hartstichting) announced today its plan to invest six million euros in an innovative treatment method for patients with acute stroke.

Pregnant women who eat fish more than three times a week give birth to babies who grow more quickly in the first years of life, and have a higher risk of being overweight as pre-schoolers. 

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) announced today that 32 researchers have each received a €1.5 million Vici grant.

The term “schizophrenia,” with its connotation of hopeless chronic brain disease, should be dropped and replaced with something like “psychosis spectrum syndrome,” argues a professor of psychiatry in The BMJ today.

Each extra hour of daily sedentary time (for example spent sitting at a computer) is associated with 22% increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, concludes new research published in Diabetologia.

Overweight people who lose a lot a weight in a short amount of time are no more likely to gain weight after dieting than people who lose weight more slowly.

The treatment options available to ventilated patients in Dutch intensive care units needs improving. This was the conclusion drawn by intensive care physician Jan Scholte in his dissertation for which he hopes to obtain his doctoral degree on 28 January at Maastricht University.