It has been suggested by some recent exegetes that Matthew 22:14 may well have been a typical remark made by our Lord to bring to a conclusion any of the parables dealing with the messianic kingdom; that its position at the end of the Parable of the Wedding Feast may have been owing to the Evangelist himself. Be that as it may, we still have the difficulty of ex­ plaining the verse in some cont...

The maximum allowable biological concentration of a toxic substance is the highest concentration which can be found in a biological medium without damage to health. The biological materials rna y be examined for: (a) the toxic substance itself; (b) a product of the metabolism of the toxic substance in the body; (c) a substance derived from the physiopathological activity of the toxic substance;...

Array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) is a laboratory technique to measure chromosomal copy number changes. A clear biological interpretation of the measurements is obtained by mapping these onto an ordinal scale with categories loss/normal/gain of a copy. The pattern of gains and losses harbors a level of tumor specificity. Here, we present WECCA (weighted clustering of called aCGH da...

When a patient comes to us with the history of having swallowed a foreign body, we naturally take it for granted that the body has passed into the food passage; and frequently it does so. In some cases, however, it does not get into the alimentary tract at all but passes into the other neighbouring passage, viz., the aii' passage?and most often into the right bronchus?the shorter and wider of t...

Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a rare obstetric emergency affecting women in late pregnancy or up to five months of postpartum period. The etiology of PPCM is still not known. It has potentially devastating effects on mother and fetus if not treated early. The signs, symptoms and treatment of PPCM are similar to that of heart failure. Early diagnosis and proper management is the corner sto...