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Professors Wijnen and Drop honoured
Professors Wynand Wijnen and Riet Drop are being posthumously honoured through the naming of a new classroom after each of them.
Chest pain: to refer or not to refer?
Can the referral of patients with chest pain from the general practitioner to the cardiologist be more efficient? Researchers from the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) and Maastricht University will answer this question in the near future.
How the right lighting saves on your heating costs
The intensity and colour of lighting influence heating costs. Moreover, the right lighting contributes to a healthier indoor climate in offices and other buildings. This is demonstrated in Marije te Kulve’s research, with which she obtained her PhD at Maastricht University (UM) this week.
Be cautious using antioxidants
Researchers Professor Pietro Ghezzi of the Brighton and Sussex Medical School and Professor Harald Schmidt of Maastricht University urge caution in the use of antioxidants...
Bigger, heavier children due to antibiotics
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.
One text message increases chance of survival after cardiac arrest
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).
UM student wins audience award at the Student Research Conference in Nijmegen
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.
Editor in chief of The BMJ appointed honorary professor at CaRe research school
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).
Hormone therapy improves life expectancy
Patients with metastatic breast cancer have a better life expectancy if they are treated with hormone therapy (MUMC+ news).