Recurrent pericarditis: mysterious or not so mysterious?

Mysterious but not serious?

1 of 2 DESCRIPTION A previously well 13-year-old boy presented with a 3-month history of right-sided hip pain responding to simple analgesia. Physical examination and blood tests were unremarkable. A pelvic x-ray ( fi gure 1 ) revealed multiple sclerotic lesions in both femora, worse on the asymptomatic left side ( fi gure 2 ) with further lesions in the pelvis. Review of a previous x-ray taken...

Mysterious Marriage

And Mysterious

" I think you might do something better with the time " , Alice said, " than wasting it in asking riddles that have no answer "-from A Mad Tea-Party Abstract. First year undergraduates usually learn about the classical Rolle's theorem saying that between two consecutive zeros of a smooth function f one can always find at least one zero of f ′. But what happens with the zeros of higher derivativ...

Mysterious origins

A survey of 2 006 U.S. adults last year revealed that 48 % believe the earliest humans lived at the time of the dinosaurs. This survey is often cited as evidence of Americans’ dismal understanding of science. But earlier this year, a television program from the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) told those muddled masses that they could well be right. The program, called The Mysterious Origins...

Leptospirosis: The “mysterious” mimic

Leptospirosis is a potentially fatal bacterial disease that can display a wide array of clinical presentations thus mimicking better-known illnesses. Although, leptospirosis is primarily a zoonotic disease, it frequently inflicts severe illness and death on communities around the globe. A comprehensive overview of the disease in wake of the 2006 outbreaks in India is hereby presented and discus...