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A short title of no more than 40 characters should 5261, email: [email protected] 1 Editorial Journal of Paediatric Respirology and Critical Care Entering the 10th year Daniel Kwok-Keung NG Department of Paediatrics, Kwong Wah Hospital, Hong Kong This is the second Christmas issue of our Journal, Your Society has established two prizes for the I would like to wish all members a peaceful Christmas best paediatric respiratory medicine essay for the and a rewarding 2007. Our society was founded in medical undergraduates from the two universities. 1997 and next year will be our tenth year of existence. This year, Mr. John Li is the winner from the University We will celebrate this with an enhanced education of Hong Kong and his essay “Neonatal respiratory program. In the November CME meeting, the topic distress syndrome: a review of current understanding was "Childhood pneumonia" and it attracted a large and new concept" is published in the current issue. audience. The success of this particular meeting Dr. Tak-wai Wong shared with us his collection suggests that the way forward for the monthly CME of unusual neck masses. This case report would meetings is to target a larger audience in a bigger certainly help decrease the unnecessary venue when the topic is believed to be of a more investigations often associated with these masses. general interest. We could probably host this Our statisticians, Mr. Wilfred Wong et al, have enhanced CME meeting every three to four months. prepared some raw data, available in the society's For the 2007 calendar, the interesting topics would website, for the readers to analyze after reading probably include the new guideline for childhood their article on regression. I believe this hands-on snoring led by the Sleep Focus Group under Dr. PY experience is important for the clinicians to learn Chow and the new asthma guideline led by the more about statistics. Asthma Focus Group under Dr. Gary Wong.