Asthma admissions to Holberton Hospital were tabulated for the six years prior to and for the six years following institution of a government funded programme to provide asthma medication to children in Antigua and Barbuda at no out-of-pocket cost. There was a drop in annual admissions, multiple admissions and number of children with multiple admissions after the programme was instituted.

Castleman’s Disease is a rare atypical lymphoproliferative disorder that should be included in the differential diagnosis of any solitary, heterogeneous and hypervascular retroperitoneal mass. En bloc resection of the mass offers nearly 100% 5-year survival rate to any patient with the localized type of the disease.