Incapacity in childbirth – Rare or common?

Common Disease: Are Causative Alleles Common or Rare?

It has been said that a week is a long time in politics. But in human disease gene mapping, 10 years can seem a very short time indeed. It once seemed so simple: find a family with a number of affected individuals and narrow down regions of the genome shared by affected individuals but not their unaffected siblings. This process (family linkage analysis) was lengthy but had notable success with...

Disease transmission by cannibalism: rare event or common occurrence?

Cannibalism has been documented as a possible disease transmission route in several species, including humans. However, the dynamics resulting from this type of disease transmission are not well understood. Using a theoretical model, we explore how cannibalism (i.e. killing and consumption of dead conspecifics) and intraspecific necrophagy (i.e. consumption of dead conspecifics) affect host-pat...

Hybrid skeletal muscle fibres: a rare or common phenomenon?

1. The main aim of the present review is to raise awareness of the molecular complexity of single skeletal muscle fibres from "normal" and "transforming" muscles, in recognition of the many types of hybrids that have been observed in vertebrate skeletal muscle. The data used to illustrate various points made in the review were taken from studies on mammalian (mostly rat) and amphibian muscles. ...

Medical evidence of incapacity.

a common worm in a rare place.

a case of a 40-year-old female, in whom a 6-meter long worm (taenia saginata) was found in stomach, is reported here. in this patient, t. saginata upward migration of the worm to the stomach, its rare phenomenon, worm mostly seen in the small intestine. this is mainly because of the high gastric acidity. in this patient, we believe proton pump inhibitor (ppi) use caused hypochlorhydria and coex...