Documents

Vaccination of infants against pneumococcal infections

The Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport has asked the Health Council to discuss the vaccination of infants against pneumococci. ...

Advisory report | 25-10-2005

Quality and quantity of allogenic stem cell transplants in children

Stem cell transplants are performed to restore or improve production of blood cells in bone marrow. The term allogenic stem cell ...

Advisory report | 24-08-2005

Providing information on significant developments in health care; identification of new and changing health technology

In this advisory report, the Central Committee on Medical Technology Assessment (MTA) of the Health Council of the Netherlands ...

Advisory report | 23-08-2005

Neonatal Screening

A heel prick is used to take a sample of blood from practically all newborns in the Netherlands to screen them for three ...

Advisory report | 22-08-2005

Asbestos diseases: lung cancer

Asbestos and occupational diseases: request for advice Hardly anybody associates asbestos these days with a multipurpose ...

Advisory report | 26-07-2005

Assess, treat, coach. Medical practice in case of sickness absence and disability

is publication is only available in Dutch.

Advisory report | 22-07-2005

Nicotine; Health-based calculated occupational cancer risk values

Advisory report | 11-07-2005

‘Embryo-saving’ alternatives?

This Section deals with the search for ‘embryo-saving’ sources of embryonic stem cells that could be used in autologous cell ...

Advisory report | 29-06-2005

Ethical Aspects of Cost-utility Analyses

This publication is not available in English.

Advisory report | 29-06-2005

Embryonic stem cells without moral pain? [English translation of chapter 1 from: 'Signalering ethiek en gezondheid 2005' (2005/07)]

There has been considerable discussion of which types of stem cells are most suitable for this kind of research. ‘Pluripotent’ ...

Advisory report | 29-06-2005