As of 1 January 2017, the disorders alpha and beta thalassaemia will be added to the neonatal blood spot (‘heel prick’) screening programme.

COPD patients living near livestock farms suffer more complications.

On 26 October 2015, heel prick screening started for all newborns on St Eustatius and Saba.

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

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