Bijna één miljoen euro voor onderzoek hartritmestoornis
Met een subsidie van bijna één miljoen euro van de Nederlandse Hartstichting kunnen prof. dr. Paul Volders en dr. Matthijs Cluitmans hun onderzoek naar kamerfibrilleren uitbreiden.

Met een subsidie van bijna één miljoen euro van de Nederlandse Hartstichting kunnen prof. dr. Paul Volders en dr. Matthijs Cluitmans hun onderzoek naar kamerfibrilleren uitbreiden.
A new detection technique – injecting tracers into ovarian ligaments – helps to carry out a sentinel lymph node procedure in ovarian cancer. This leads to greater accuracy in detecting lymph node metastases and also leads to fewer side effects for patients.
Last Wednesday Health Sciences student Nousjka Vranken won an audience award for the presentation she gave about her bachelor's research during the Student Research Conference in Nijmegen.
On 1 November, Maastricht University has appointed Dr Fiona Godlee, editor in chief of The BMJ (formerly the British Medical Journal), as honorary professor on behalf of national research school CaRe (Netherlands School for Primary Care Research).
Patients with metastatic breast cancer have a better life expectancy if they are treated with hormone therapy (MUMC+ news).
Study published in Cell Metabolism by University Maastricht/Maastricht UMC+ reveals increase in inflammatory response of immune cells due to HDL.
According to Sander Streng, a researcher at Maastricht University, the hospital test used to determine whether someone has had a heart attack needs improving. His research focuses primarily on the protein troponin T and the hospital test aims to determine the concentration of this substance in the...
Researchers at the Alzheimer's Centre Limburg, Maastricht University, and Maastricht UMC+ developed an online tool for caregivers (mumc+ news).
UM is the first organisation in the Netherlands to investigate whether a financial reward will motivate smokers to quit. The researchers wanted to investigate the positive effects of rewarding employees with a gift voucher if they successfully quit smoking.