If historical trends continue unchanged, dementia will be the leading cause of disease burden in 2040 and the main cause of death.

The number of bacteria strains resistant to antibiotics in humans has remained stable in the Netherlands over the past year.

Today RIVM’s Centre for Healthy Living (CGL) welcomes the Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung.

In December 2016, RIVM published in Dutch the results of its research into the health risks of playing sports on synthetic turf pitches with rubber granulate.

RIVM investigates how the impact of pharmaceutical residues on the environment may be reduced.

Off-label use of medicinal products in the European Union is common, both in primary and in secondary care.

The Global Learning and Observation to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program in the Netherlands (GLOBE Netherlands) is organising the annual GLOBE day on 21 March .

Age plays a role in immune responses after a natural infection with Bordetella pertussis, the bacterium that causes the contagious respiratory infection pertussis (whooping cough).