A Mother and Son’s First Nature Trail Experience

Neoatherosclerosis: fooling mother nature.

Transplantation tolerance: fooling mother nature.

Foreignness is threatening. The immune system, the primary arbiter of self and nonself, will reject an organ transplant unless constrained by life-long administration of multiple immune suppressive drugs. Immunosuppressive therapy, while facilitating graft success, heightens susceptibility to infection and the development of malignancy. The challenge then is to educate the immune system to tole...

Two Sons of the First Congregation

The population of Ireland was originally Roman Catholic but was diluted after the Elizabethan campaigns by Anglicans and the Plantation of Ulster by Scottish Presbyterians. While there may have been a Presbyterian church near the North Gate in either Hercules Street or North Street in Belfast, the well documented but later meeting houses were established late in the seventeenth century in Rosem...

Maternal immunisation: collaborating with mother nature.

Maternal immunisation has the potential to substantially reduce morbidity and mortality from infectious diseases after birth. The success of tetanus, influenza, and pertussis immunisation during pregnancy has led to consideration of additional maternal immunisation strategies to prevent group B streptococcus and respiratory syncytial virus infections, among others. However, many gaps in knowled...

Congenital diffuse Melanosis in a father and two sons

Congenital diffuse Melanosis is one of the rarest clinical manifestations of hereditary universal Melanosis and only few cases have been reported all over the world. The presented case is a 54-year-old man who presented to us complaining of erythematous annular lesions on his face and neck since 8 months ago. Diffuse pigmentation of his skin took our attention. According to the patient, d...