Codon Clarity or Conundrum?

Nasolabial Cyst: A Diagnostic Clarity or Conundrum?

Mycosphaerellaceae – Chaos or clarity?

The Mycosphaerellaceae represent thousands of fungal species that are associated with diseases on a wide range of plant hosts. Understanding and stabilising the taxonomy of genera and species of Mycosphaerellaceae is therefore of the utmost importance given their impact on agriculture, horticulture and forestry. Based on previous molecular studies, several phylogenetic and morphologically disti...

The Pliocene hominin diversity conundrum: Do more fossils mean less clarity?

Recent discoveries of multiple middle Pliocene hominins have raised the possibility that early hominins were as speciose as later hominins. However, debates continue to arise around the validity of most of these new taxa, largely based on poor preservation of holotype specimens, small sample size, or the lack of evidence for ecological diversity. A closer look at the currently available fossil ...

Hysterical stupor or yogic sleep? The conundrum

A woman in the care of the author 40 years ago was reported to have been sleeping for 2 days. We treated her condition as conversion hysteria. Her private psychiatrist was the renowned R. D. Laing; he was unhappy with our line of management, on the grounds of the arbitrariness of the diagnosis, the labelling of the woman with a diagnosis of hysteria and the treatment of the patient without her ...

Case-Cohort Conundrum: Fish or No Fish?

Author's disclosures of potential conflicts of interest are found at the end of this article. O ncology advanced practitioners (APs) are advocates for and witnesses to the increasing interest in self-regulation of health care by patients. Data from the 2007 National Health Interview Survey (a cross-sectional household interview) suggest that one way in which patients with cancer attempt to mana...