The simultaneous occurrence of cancer of the pancreas in husband and wife is reported. Both patients shared two dietary idiosyncrasies--namely, (1) the ingestion of copious amounts of margarine in which they cooked all their food and (2) the addition of 'coffee syrup', a liquid concentrate of coffee, to their ground coffee before percolation. The possible role of the latter in the aetiology of ...

A 52-year-old man was diagnosed as having a large malignant melanoma of the choroid in the right eye. Six years later his 58-year-old wife of almost 40 years was diagnosed as having a large malignant melanoma of the choroid in her left eye. In both patients the diagnosis was confirmed histologically following enucleation. Electron microscopy failed to reveal evidence of viral particles within t...

BACKGROUND Parkinsonism is a common neurological sequela of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning, but its pathophysiological mechanism has yet to be clarified. OBJECTIVES To describe a married couple who were both affected by CO poisoning, but only 1 of whom developed CO-induced parkinsonism, and to discuss the possible underlying pathophysiological mechanism of CO-induced parkinsonism by comparing...

The problème des ménages (married couples problem) introduced by E.Lucas in 1891 is a classical problem that asks the number of ways to arrange n married couples around a circular table, so that husbands and wives are in alternate places but no couple is seated together. In this paper we present a new version of Menage Problem that carries the constraints consistent with the Muslim culture. The...

A 27 year-old man was referred to the dermatology department for two recent ulcerations of the shaft of the penis. There were regularly edged, indurated, eroded nodules measuring 15 and 8 mm in diameter, with fibrinous surface and serous exudate (Fig. 1). He had no pain, no fever and no lymphadenopathy, was recently married and reported that he did not have any previous disease and that his wif...

A recent Supreme Court judgement is unwelcome and regressive for the women’s movement, especially for reproductive rights. When hearing an appeal in the Ghosh vs Ghosh divorce case, the court ruled on March 26, 2007: “If a husband submits himself for an operation of sterilisation without medical reasons and without the consent or knowledge of his wife and similarly if the wife undergoes vasecto...