Maladies pulmonaires: progrès ou état stationnaire?

Monsoon maladies.

The advent of monsoon in India provides a welcome relief from the dry hot summer and brings waves of life to parched landscapes across the country, but the cooling showers also bring along a lot of diseases. Infectious diseases like Dengue fever, Chikungunya, Hantaviruses, Nipah virus, Chandipura virus, Malaria and the novel H1N1 influenza virus had emerged or re-emerged as major public health ...

Minor Maladies

Réaction diffusion en écoulement stationnaire rapide

This Note is concerned with the speed of propagation of a chemical reaction in a fast, steady and non uniform flow, which may apply to flame propagation in some instances. The structure of the flow is 1) a parallel shear flow with velocity perpendicular to the average front, where the flame speed is close to the maximum flow speed toward the fresh gases 2) a periodic cellular structure where th...

Métastases pleuro-pulmonaires des néoplasies extra-thoraciques

Résumé Les poumons reçoivent la totalité du drainage veineux du corps expliquant la grande fréquence des métastases pleuro-pulmonaires de plusieurs cancers. L'objectif était d'étudier les manifestations radio-cliniques des métastases pleuro-pulmonaires des cancers extra-thoraciques. Nous rapportons une étude rétrospective de patients porteurs de métastase pleuro-pulmonaire colligés dans notre s...

Misinterpreter of Maladies !

Sir, Jhumpa Lahiri is a freelance journalist whose collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction this year (2000). One of her stories, The Treatment of Bibi Haldar, presents a 29 year old woman who suffers from episodes of convulsions. The clinical description suggests a diagnosis of epilepsy for several reasons. The convulsions appeared to hav...