The Health Council of the Netherlands is preparing an advice on pneumococcal vaccination for the elderly on request of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport.

Recently a tweet containing a video from a Dutch tv-show about Down syndrome caused a lot of turmoil on Twitter.

RIVM has conducted a market surveillance study of 26 so-called non-permanent fillers. All 26 products proved to be harmless.

For the second consecutive year, the number of tuberculosis (TB) patients in the Netherlands increased.

There are a number of promising biobased alternatives to controversial polar aprotic solvents, as revealed in a report from Wageningen Food & Biobased Research commissioned by RIVM .