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Antibiotics stimulate children's growth, both in height and weight. These findings from a study done at Maastricht University are published in The Journal of Pediatrics today.

On Wednesday July 20^th, in the presence of the Mayor of Maastricht, Annemarie Penn-te Strake, the Governor of the Province of Limburg, Theo Bovens and the dean of the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University, professor Hildegard Schneider, the first international center in Centre Ceramique will be...

More than a quarter of people survive cardiac arrest when civilian emergency care providers are mobilised within six minutes via a text message (MUMC+ News). 

New technology provides potential to spur new connections and foster new collaborations.

The insulin sensitivity of patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is just as poor as that of patients with type 2 diabetes. Exercise, however, can help the patients to improve their insulin sensitivity, reduce the amount of fat in the liver and, effectively, pre-empt the development...

The wholesale removal of armpit lymph nodes (axillary lymph node dissection) in women with recurring breast cancer turns out to be unnecessary in many cases (MUMC+ news).

The 500th European Research Council (ERC) grant in the Netherlands has been awarded on June 16th to Valentina Mazzucato, Professor of Globalization and Development from Maastricht University.

Medical and social challenges faced by adolescents and young adults with chronic epilepsy during the transition from childhood to adulthood (PhD thesis Rianne Geerlings, news Kempenhaege).

PhD candidate's discovery may be a step in the struggle against overweight and obesity (MUMC+ News).

In his inaugural address, Marko Jelicic stated that most of the perpetrators who claim they do not remember the crimes they committed are not telling the truth. He bases this finding on recent neuropsychological research on the role of the hippocampus, the area of the brain involved in storing...