COPD patients living near livestock farms suffer more complications.

Residues of medicinal products, such as painkillers, hormones and antidepressants, are increasingly detected in surface water and drinking water.

In 2014, there were more patients in the Netherlands with diseases transmitted by wild rodents than in previous years.

We can all help to reduce pollution of the environment by pharmaceutical residues.

At the start of the “Tick Awareness Week”, the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) and Wageningen UR are commencing a large-scale study on the long-term effects of

Last year, a man was treated at the Amsterdam Academic Medical Centre (AMC) after being bitten by a tick and becoming infected with a strain of the Borrelia bacterium not previously encountered in