There has been yet another ominous sign: the rising rate of syphilis infections, which has proved to be an infallible barometer for the incidence of H.I.V. Greece reported no syphilis infections in 2001; the Netherlands reported less than one case per hundred thousand people; Turkey had five cases per hundred thousand; Iceland had just over eleven.
However, children from central European countries such as Germany and The Netherlands reported very similar HRQOL.
Finally, van Asperen et al (2005) in a analysis of 139 BRCA2 families from the Netherlands reported an RR of 2.5 (95%CI 1.6 3.8) for prostate cancer among BRCA2 protein-truncating mutation carriers.
Denmark and the Netherlands reported the birth place of cases' parents; in Denmark, the geographical origin for TB cases under 26 years of age is classified according to parents' place of birth (e.g. native-born cases under 26 years of age whose parents were born outside Denmark are classified as foreign-born cases).
The Netherlands reported the most S. suis infections in the West (2 ) with an estimated annual incidence of S. suis infection of 0.002 cases per 100,000 persons (11 ), and the incidence in northern Thailand was 6.2 cases per 100,000 persons (12 ).
And researchers at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands report that they have constructed logic circuits out of nanotubes.
Statistics in the Netherlands report that an average of 554 babies are born there every day - most of them in July, August and September.
Long and his colleagues at UC Berkeley, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md., and the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands report their findings in the March 30 issue of Science.
Now, after searching cockroach hindguts, a low-oxygen environment known to harbor cells with hydrogenosomes, Johannes Hackstein and his colleagues at the Catholic University of Nijmegen in The Netherlands report that they have finally hit pay dirt.
All hospitals in the Netherlands report transfusion rates in knee and hip surgery, and these can be compared on the central website of the Dutch Health Authority.
