The slogan for this year’s World Kidney Day is Donate – Kidneys for Life – Receive, which focuses on the positive outcomes of kidney transplantation and the life-saving aspect of organ donation. Kidney transplantation is arguably the best treatment for end-stage renal disease (ESRD), and is associated with improved...

In this issue of the Annals, we are pleased to introduce a Residents’ Corner with the expressed aims of: 1. Getting residents to read the Annals by publishing articles of specific relevance to them. 2. Giving residents a platform to publish their work in a less competitive environment. This article is available...

It has been estimated that in the first half of the 20th century, the average person used to sleep 9 hours a day; today an individual sleeps, on the average, 7.5 hours a day. The increasing time pressure from work, family, and social changes have resulted in many people...

The co-occurrence of mental and medical disorders in the same person, regardless of the chronological order in which they occurred or their causal relationship—commonly referred to as comorbidity—is not uncommon. The National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R), which was a nationally representative epidemiological survey in the US, found that at...

Syncope is a clinical syndrome characterised by transient loss of consciousness and postural tone that is most often due to temporary and self terminating global cerebral hypoperfusion. It is a commonly encountered condition with up to 40% of selected populations having experienced an episode of syncope in their lifetime,...