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Professor André Knottnerus has received the Michael Berger Award. The award is a recognition of André’s outstanding international achievements in the field of evidence-based medicine and patient-centredness.

Angelique Heijnen, office manager of the secretariat of the department ‘Health, Ethics and Society’, received a Royal Award on behalf of the King of the Netherlands.

Less invasive operation, maximum vertebral growth, and no stray metal particles (MUMC+ news).

On 19 April 2017 AACSB International announced that it will be extending the business accreditation of Maastricht University’s School of Business and Economics (SBE). Founded in 1916, AACSB is the longest-serving global accrediting body for business schools that offer undergraduate, master's, and...

Less than 1% of Dutch children eats 150 gram vegetables per day, as recommended by the WHO. Therefore, it should become custom to eat vegetables during breakfast and lunch.

The influence of prebiotics on overweight people (MUMC+ press release).

In February 2017, Universidade Católica Portuguesa and UM-FHML signed a partnership agreement to jointly set up a six-year medical curriculum in Portugal. On Thursday 6 and Friday 7 April, a Portuguese delegation visited FHML for a further introduction to our teaching system, facilities and staff.

On 24 March 2017 this prize was awarded to Nicole Verbiest - van Gurp, PhD candidate and GP trainee at the Department of Family Medicine, for her research proposal ‘Current practice of Dutch general practitioners in detecting and diagnosing atrial fibrillation; a case vignette study’.

Four clinics in the Meuse-Rhine Euregion will collaborate in the field of oncology with OncoCare (MUMC+ news).

In November 2016 Annerika Slok, postdoc at the Department of Family Medicine, finished her PhD about the development and evaluation of the Assessment of Burden of COPD (ABC) tool.