Nicoline Tamsma has been elected to serve a new two-year term as EuroHealthNet president. EuroHealthNet is a European network organisation of public health and health promotion institutes.

Antimicrobial resistance is a global problem. In the Netherlands, some bacteria that can cause infections in people are more frequently resistant to antibiotics used as a last resort.

The German Federal Institute of Risk Assessment (BfR) and the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, RIVM have signed a cooperation agreement, focused on developing new sci

The number of people who were tested for a Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) at a Dutch STI clinic has dropped for the first time in years.

Knowledge development in China is valuable for addressing environmental issues in Europe, and vice versa.

For medical devices such as breast implants, manufacturers are obliged to compile a ‘technical file’ based on which market authorization of the product will be decided.

In our annual report, we look back at compelling RIVM projects and research in 2015.

International air policy has shown good results in Europe: in the past 35 years the air has become cleaner. Nevertheless air pollution is still an important cause of premature death.

At European level, different methods are used to identify substances and processes that may cause cancer as early as possible, the so-called early warning systems.

Yearly approximately 122,600 people in the EU are diagnosed with cancer, caused by past exposure to carcinogenic substances at work.