An analysis of 555 consecutive cases of congenital heart disease in Ceylon has shown that for the whole series interatrial septal defect is the commonest cardiac lesion; next is interventricular septal defect, followed by persistent ductus arteriosus. Interventricular and interatrial septal defects are equally common among all the patients below 16 years of age, but interventricular septal defe...

Forty patients had a diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy confirmed by right and left heart catheterization or necropsy. The families of the patients were investigated and i5 of the 40 had a positive family history. In these 15families, 79 parents and sibs were alive, and 55 werefound to have evidence of the disease. Of the 55, 40 were male and i5female. Thefamilial incidence was 37.5 per c...

Today the developments in genetics are exciting. Perhaps this explains why geneticists sometimes seem to overlook common sense solutions. One example of this is the selection experiment done by Bijma et al. (2007a,b). These authors developed a sophisticated statistical method of group selection against mortality in hens randomly placed together. One may safely assume that this mortality is due ...

While being important for its culinary use, cinnamon is also highly valued for providing significant health benefits [1] including lowering blood sugar levels [2-5], reducing heart disease risk factors [5-7], and even addressing neurological disorders [8-10]. High levels of antioxidants are in present in cinnamon and likely contribute to these health benefits. Cinnamon is made from the dried in...

It was proposed at the serological laboratory for the Ceylon Army Command to study the incidence of false positive serological reactions for syphilis given by sera from cases of leprosy. This inquiry, however, had to be closed prematurely because of early demobilization of the unit. As it has not been possible for the writer to record further observations, the available data is tabulated below....