World Kidney Day is a joint initiative of the International Society of Nephrology and other nephrology organisations, which will be observed annually on the second Thursday of March throughout the world. Initiated in 2006, its purpose is to increase awareness of chronic kidney disease (CKD), its associated cardiovascular morbidity...

To this day, in many parts of Asia, paediatricians are still grappling with the childhood problems of infectious diseases, diarrhoeal diseases and malnutrition. With improvements in public health, many countries have seen a decrease in infant mortality rates, with a shift in the causes of mortality from infections to...

Pathological gambling has been defined as a persistent and recurrent maladaptive gambling behaviour that disrupts personal, family and work life. The diagnosis is not made if the gambling behaviour is better accounted for by a Manic Episode .1 Diagnostic criteria are similar to those for substance dependence and include...

Adolescent violence is a serious social issue globally. Adolescent violence is also making its presence felt in Malaysia, as evidenced by newspaper reports. Violence can be defined in many ways and is a subset of aggressive behaviour. Some have suggested that aggression in childhood leads to violence in adolescent...

The incidence and prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) worldwide is increasing, due almost exclusively to an increase in non-insulin-dependent (type 2) DM, which represents more than 90% of all cases of diabetes.1 Presently, there is a global pandemic of type 2 DM and its clinical sequelae. The World Health...