Czech centre marks Mendel anniversary

PFAPA syndrome in the Czech Republic: a single-centre experience

Purpose PFAPA syndrome (Periodic Fever, Aphthous stomatitis, Pharyngitis and Adenitis) is an idiopathic autoinflammatory disease with the first manifestation before 5 years of age. Fever attacks lasting for 3-6 days have individual periodicity within about 3-8 week intervals. They are accompanied by individual combination of other symptoms among which culture-negative pharyngitis/tonsillitis, o...

Mendel might get dizzy.

Building on Mendel

Twelve months after the first successes of an ambitious project to commemorate Mendel in the abbey where he carried out his work, efforts are now turning to the gardens, perhaps some of the most intellectually fruitful patches of ground in the world. Restoration work in the abbey, in the beautiful Czech city of Brno, reveals a building in which little has changed since Mendel’s time where it is...

The public health service in the Czech and Slovak Republics celebrates its 60th anniversary.

Did Mendel cheat?