World Asthma Day is an annual event organised by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) in collaboration with healthcare groups and asthma educators to improve asthma awareness and the care of asthma patients around the world. Each year GINA chooses a theme and prepares and distributes World Asthma Day...

Ischaemia-Reperfusion (I/R) injury describes a paradoxical phenomenon where reperfusion of tissues following a prolonged period of acute onset ischaemia causes further injury both to the tissues involved as well as distant organs uninvolved in the initial ischaemic event. The remote effects of I/R injury are most frequently observed in...

With the increasing availability of ultrasound and computed tomography scans, more patients are being diagnosed with incidental renal tumours. Up to 80% of tumours <4 cm turn out to be RCC upon histological examination.1 Nephron sparing surgery (NSS) is an established curative treatment in patients with single, small (4...

Endometrial cancer is the third most frequent gynaecologic cancer in Korea, following cervical cancer and ovarian cancer. With the increasingly Westernised lifestyles of Korean women – including exposure to oestrogen hormones, the number of pregnancies, the age of menarche and the age of menopause – the number of reported...

The incidence of OSA in severely obese Asians is poorly documented. This is also compounded by a varied racial profile across Asia. Singapore, with its mixed ethnic population is uniquely poised to study the prevalence of sleep disturbances and the results of different interventions. In this study we sought...