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.

RIVM has updated the 2005 grid map (Netkaart) showing the overhead high-voltage lines in the Netherlands.

RIVM is involved in the Horizon2020 project INHERIT. The first article of the INHERIT project has been published, lead-authored by RIVM.

The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) has made the shortlist for the 2018 election for best government organisation of the year.