From 6th to 9th November 2010, the 8th Asia Pacific Congress of Asthma, Allergy, and Clinical Immunology was held at the Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre, in conjunction with the 2010 Congress of the Asia Pacific Association of Paediatric Allergy, Respirology and Immunology. New approaches to the treatment of asthma Allergy in early life symposium New approaches to the treatment of asthma When asthma was first recognised as a disease entity in the...

I was recently in Manila to attend a family function. While there we had quite an interesting experience that began when my brother-in-law, a previously healthy 41-year-old white male of Croatian descent, came to breakfast one morning limping. As we sat in the hotel restaurant chatting over coffee and fresh mangoes, the rheumatologist in me could not resist asking to see his foot. He promptly complied, offering up his be-flip-flopped foot for me to examine. As my sister put it, his foot...