People may experience hypersensitivity reactions to fillers following a COVID-19 vaccination.

Hospitals reported an unusually large number of children presenting with RSV over the summer of 2021. The number of positive coronavirus tests rapidly increased after the summer of 2021.

Satellites are continuously improving and provide more precise measurements. They are used, for example, for studying emissions of greenhouse gases and other air pollutants.

In 2019, nearly one in four people in the Netherlands had visited their general practitioner  for stomach, liver and/or bowel problems of a more or less serious nature.

The use of Salvia divinorum may have adverse health effects. Among other things, it may lead to hallucinations, restlessness, confusion, elevated heart rate and blood pressure, and psychosis.

This spring, more than 800,000 young people received an invitation to be vaccinated against HPV, the human papillomavirus.

The societal costs of Lyme disease have been determined for the Netherlands for the first time. The disease appears to cost nearly EUR 20 million each year.

In 2015 slightly more ammonia was emitted in the Netherlands than in 2014 and the ceiling set by the European Union was met (128 kilotons).

TIME has named Professor Guus Velders of RIVM as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.