Spain: Its Story Briefly Told

Iron metabolism in hemodialyzed patients – a story half told?

INTRODUCTION All living organisms have evolved sophisticated mechanisms to maintain appropriate iron levels in their cells and within their body. Recently our understanding of iron metabolism has dramatically increased. Overt labile plasma iron (LPI) represents a component of non-transferrin bound iron (NTBI) that is both redox active and chelatable, capable of permeating into organs and induci...

What story is told by oceanic tracer concentrations?

In their report "Temporal trends in deep ocean Redfield ratios" (4 Feb., p. 831), Pahlow and Riebesell suggest that the marine biota has changed in the last few decades in response to human activities. These findings challenge the steady-state paradigm of ocean biogeochemistry and might have important implications for the global carbon cycle. However, the signals that Pahlow and Riebesell analy...

The story of a medical lifetime, told in a stamp.

CMAJ • OCT. 20, 1998; 159 (8) 911 Medical philately, the collection and study of stamps related to medicine, poses an interesting challenge because stamps’ medical significance is not always readily apparent. As well, many of the “doctors” they honour are not doctors of medicine. It is difficult to define what medical stamps are because they can depict people with a medical or scientific backgr...

Kunqu , the Classical Opera of Globalized China : A Long Story Briefly

Briefly Noted

Typological discourse analysis is the study of those factors that affect the choice of constructions in a language, taking the surrounding discourse context into account. Typically, texts from a large number of languages are analyzed quantitatively in order to discover statistical regularities between functional parameters affecting the choice of alternations. Examples of alternations are activ...