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From 30 October to 19 November a team of forensic experts of Maastricht University trained 20 Rwandan police officers at the National Police College in Musanze, Rwanda.

VitaK Innovation develops new medical diagnostics device TransCare (Brightlands news).

If you write a dissertation on the history of Problem-Based Learning (PBL), you cannot avoid discussing Maastricht University. You also cannot avoid the work of Professor of Psychology Henk Schmidt, who, from 1974, contributed to the development of PBL at the country's eighth medical faculty in Maastricht.

The procedure for making an appointment for a pension consultation will change in 2017. In recent years, employees have expressed a growing interest in attending the pension consultations. As a result, these sessions have been booked up very quickly. Furthermore, it appeared that a pension consultation was not required in all cases.

Study published in Cell Metabolism by University Maastricht/Maastricht UMC+ reveals increase in inflammatory response of immune cells due to HDL.

‘There’s no cure for osteoarthritis’, is what Wikipedia and all available textbooks say. According to the consortium ‘William Hunter revisited’, led by Prof. Karperien (University of Twente), it is now time to revise this.

Before the discovery of penicillin in 1943, people died from infections caused by everyday household accidents – there were simply no drugs available to fight off these infections. This may happen again in the future, warn scientists from all over the world.

Data science is playing an increasingly important role in research, education, business, society and medicine (appointment André Dekker).

Aagje Swinnen has been appointed as Endowed Chair of International Humanism and the Art of Living at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht per 1 October 2016.

From 7-9 November 2016, M-EPLI PhD candidates Jiangqiu Ge and Liuhu Luo presented their papers  at the conference New Civil Rights and the Rule of Law in China.