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Increased awareness for the consumption of essential fatty acids during pregnancy may reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease in children.

By taking into account the actual metabolic rate of women, a crucial step can be made in creating more energy-efficient buildings and a more comfortable working area for women. This according to Dr Boris Kingma and Professor Wouter van Marken Lichtenbelt in a letter published in Nature Climate Change.

Millionaires are more generous than previous research has suggested, according to a study of more than six hundred Dutch millionaires.

A consortium of universities from Bulgaria, Poland, Russia and Ukraine, led by Maastricht University, received a funding of 865.000 Euro for an ERASMUS+ project entitled Bridging Innovations, Health and Societies: Educational capacity building in the Eastern European Neighbouring Areas (BIHSENA).

Johan Vlaeyen, professor of Behavioural Medicine at KU Leuven and Maastricht University has been granted the prestigious Methusalem grant.

Scientists at Maastricht UMC+ Maastricht University have found that vitamin C derived from fruits and vegetables can significantly reduce the risk of developing head and neck cancer.

The first Dutch Ironman triathlon was held in Maastricht on Sunday 2 August. Approximately a thousand professional and amateur athletes from forty-seven countries took on the ultimate challenge by participating in the world’s biggest long-distance sporting event, which includes a 3.8 kilometre swim, a...

Recently ICGI Research fellow mr. dr. Rogier Wolf’s annotation to the ruling has been published in the journal ‘Jurisprudentie in Nederland’

Maastricht University will officially launch two new Master of Science programmes in September 2015.

The first university programme in physiotherapy was accredited by the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO).