Leprosy: Facts and Fiction

Developing Emotion-Oriented Morality through Fiction

Background: As a peculiar epistemological procedure to understand and represent world facts, literature has ‎constantly imparted major contributions to human knowledge. Literature’s epistemological ‎effects bear on both cognitive and affective measures; however, its emotional functioning is ‎more remarkable. Fiction resorts to mimesis on readers’ mind in developing such moral emotions as empath...

Retraction: Infantile colic, facts and fiction

This article (Kheir AEM: Infantile colic, facts and fiction. Ital J Pediatr 2012, 38:34) has been retracted by the author due to extensive text overlap with a previous publication by Roberts et al. (Roberts DM, Ostapchuk M, O'Brien JG: Infantile Colic. Am Fam Physician 2004,70:735–740).The author apologises for any inconvenience caused.

Teething: facts and fiction.

Chemical graph theory-Facts and fiction

Prophylaxis of Leprosy*

The discussion which followed my last communication and the statement itself were so hurried that I failed to insist on certain aspects which I thought were already known. Then and later, I also realized that for some colleagues the idea of transmission of leprosy by mosquitoes was totally new, although it first came up thirty years ago. I do not claim to have opened a new avenue, nor to have b...