Documents

Environmental risks of medicines

In recent years, medicines for humans and animals[1] have increasingly been found in the environment. Some medicines are known to ...

Advisory report | 26-06-2001

Urinary incontinence

Within the framework of an investigation being carried out into the appropriateness of current medical procedures (the ...

Advisory report | 25-06-2001

Defence against bioterrorism

This report examines health-related issues concerning the risk of a terrorist attack employing biological agents. At the request ...

Advisory report | 14-06-2001

Elektromagnetische velden: Jaarbericht 2001 - Electromagnetic fields: Annual Update 2001

Present scientific data do not indicate that exposure to environmental electromagnetic fields – such as generated by power lines ...

Advisory report | 29-05-2001

Population Screening Act: National breast cancer screening programme (2)

This publication is not available in English.

Advisory report | 21-05-2001

Fytosterolen / Phytosterols

Advisory report | 16-05-2001

Health risks of exposure to depleted uranium

Not surprisingly, the use of ammunition containing depleted uranium (DU) in Kosovo and elsewhere in the Balkans has provoked ...

Advisory report | 16-05-2001

HIV surveillance in the Netherlands

The number of people infected with HIV in the Netherlands is estimated to be between twelve and eighteen thousand. The current ...

Advisory report | 15-05-2001

Prenatal Screening: Down’s syndrome, neural tube defects, routine-ultrasonography

The present advisory report, produced by a Health Council committee, is a response to questions which the Minister of Health, ...

Advisory report | 07-05-2001

Advisory Report Pain Research

On 19 April 2000 the Minister of Health, Welfare and Sports requested the Advisory Council on Health Research (RGO) to issue an ...

Advisory report | 15-04-2001