Ageing, old age and death have piqued the interest of philosophers and writers since antiquity. Confucius related ageing to maturity and wisdom,1 while Shakespeare described it as a “second childhood”. Cicero, perhaps with premonitions of his own demise, viewed death with fondness in a metaphor, likening it to a ship...

Worldwide, rotavirus (RV) is the most common cause of severe dehydrating gastroenteritis (GE) among infants and young children aged 6 to 24 months. RV disease causes significant morbidity and mortality;2 in 2008, an estimated 453,000 children younger than 5 years of age died from RV diarrhoea, accounting for 37%...

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a cancer characterised by marked geographical differences in distribution; it is endemic in Southern China and Southeast Asia. Chinese people living in areas of Southern China (including Hong Kong) have a higher incidence of NPC compared with Chinese migrants living overseas. This article is available only...

Biliary atresia (BA), a progressive obliterative fi broinflammatory cholangiopathy, usually presents with jaundice in infancy. The defi nitive therapy for BA in the majority of infants is liver transplantation (LT). This article is available only as a PDF. Please click on “Download PDF” on top to view the full article.

A man in his 20s presented with a 3-year history of anhidrosis. There were no autonomic symptoms and he was not on any long-term medications. Five months prior to onset of symptoms, he suffered a ruptured intracranial arteriovenous malformation. This article is available only as a PDF. Please click on...