Do our Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programmes provide significant measurable and desirable results? The key metric for evaluating programmes in the past has been the satisfaction of participating healthcare providers. Often the participants stated they enjoyed the course, time well spent from their perspective, and returned to their home...

Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) has evolved dramatically over the past decade and it has continued to progress and expand with the realisation of the exponentially increasing waiting times and waiting list deaths in cadaveric liver transplants. With the scarcity of cadaveric liver donors in Asia, this therapeutic innovation...

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy has become a routine surgical procedure in general surgical units all over the world. Its implementation has expanded dramatically and is considered a feasible and safe approach even for acute cholecystitis.1,2 Laparoscopic management of acute cholecystitis may still be associated with increased risks of complications such as...

Varicella is an acute, self-limiting exanthematous disease characterised by a prolonged period of morbidity lasting up to 2 weeks.1 Despite being mostly benign in healthy individuals, varicella infection can result in substantial loss of productivity. A study by Lee et al2 estimated that the disease costs Singapore US$11.8 million...

Klebsiella pneumoniae ranks high as a cause of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in hospitalised patients in Malaysia.1-3 This appears unique, as most reports from other countries including Thailand4 do not always share this finding. Studies from Singapore have shown that K. pneumoniae is important in severe CAP requiring hospitalisation,5 not...