In the last issue of Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology (APJMT), editor-in-chief, Dr. Reza Afshari focused on an important contemporary issue of empowering toxicology in the Asia pacific region (1). The topic drew our attention and we would like to share the situation of Bangladesh in light of this editorial. Dr. Afshari correctly emphasized on forming national societies of medical toxi...

confirmed. The Secretary announced that, as a result of a memorandum submitted by the medical members of council, the Council of the Society had sanctioned the expenditure during the next two years of a sum of Rs. 3,000 on the purchase of standard medical works as a basis of a medical reference library. With the large number of medical journals already received this will go far towards supplyin...

The evolution of self-adaptive systems poses the problems of their coherence and the resume of the systems’ functioning taking into account the accomplished work. While they are the base of the self-adaptive systems, these two aspects are not considered in the related works. In this paper, we propose a methodological based approach. In such approach, the adaptive system’s evolution is thought a...

BACKGROUND The role of prophylactic antibiotics in breast augmentation remains controversial. However, the majority of surgeons are administering antibiotics. OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of antibiotic(s) use in the incidence of infection and capsular contracture following breast augmentation. METHODS From September 2004 to November 2010, 180 patients underwent primary bilateral brea...

Although the family Hyaenidae contains only four living species, and is therefore one of the smallest among mammalian carnivores, it is remarkable for its ecological and social diversity, which surpasses that of much larger families such as canids and felids. The four extant hyena species represent the last remnants of a family that was once large and diverse. At the peak of hyaenid diversity i...