2015
Vol 105, No 7 (2015)
- Doctor-assisted suicide
- Cause-of-death information – key to public health action
- Social franchising primary healthcare clinics – a model for NHI?
- Introducing the ‘Cochrane Corner’
- Fibrinolytics for empyema
- Reducing neonatal bloodstream infections
- What do maternal ‘near misses’ tell us?
- CME: Nutrition of infants and toddlers
Vol 105, No 6 (2015)
- A good complaints system – solution to SA’s medicolegal mayhem?
- Non-alcohol-related Wernicke’s encephalopathy
- Repair of laparoscopic bile duct injuries
- Management of burns begins at home … with prehospital cooling
- Paediatric dental chair sedation
- The South African Surgical Outcomes Study
- Acute preoperative beta-blockade harms hypertensive vascular surgery patients
- Predictors at diagnosis for poor-outcome severe Crohn’s disease
Vol 105, No 5 (2015)
- Antimicrobial resistance
- The menacing bread tag
- Recommendations for treatment of URTIs
- Community- v. healthcare-acquired bloodstream infections
- Rheumatic heart disease in Africa
- Severity-of-illness score to predict death of TB patients in the ICU
- Diabetes management in children
- Current role of splenectomy for ITP
- CME: Antibiotic stewardship
Vol 105, No 4 (2015)
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- Basic and comprehensive emergency obstetric and neonatal care
- Optimal staffing to ensure safe maternity units
- Food insecurity in urban South Africa
- Management of obstetric haemorrhage
- MMed supervision – a path out of the swamp
- Caesarean section and maternal death – latest Saving Mothers report
- Intrapartum asphyxia and hypoxic encephalopathy
Vol 105, No 3 (2015)
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- Over-servicing’, ‘under servicing’ and abandonment’: What is the law?
- Care and prevention of congenital disorders
- Dementia in rural South Africa
- Two-dose HPV vaccination is sufficient
- Traumatic brain injury, the hidden pandemic
- Kidney disease in methamphetamine users
- Emergency care research priorities
- CME: Diagnosis and management of chronic kidney disease
Vol 105, No 2 (2015)
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- Digitalis reappraised
- Quality improvement ‘tool’ for trauma services
- The South African National Cancer Registry
- End-stage kidney disease and HIV positivity
- Linking cervical cancer screening to HPV vaccination
- Predictors of mortality following non-cardiac surgery
- Human myiasis
Vol 105, No 1 (2015)
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- The humanistic side of medical education
- Medical certification of death
- The iPhone as a screening tool for deafness
- The HPV Vaccine and Cervical Cancer Screen (VACCS) project
- Severe blunt thoracic trauma: Differences between adults and children
- CME: Food allergy
2014
Vol 104, No 12 (2014)
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- Amniocentesis and risk of HIV transmission
- Call for neonatal premedication prior to intubation
- Early detection of retinoblastoma
- Why aren’t women getting safe abortions?
- Increased MTCT of HIV in adolescent pregnancy
- VTE – pro ling of patient risk
- CME: Tuberculosis and HIV
Vol 104, No 11 (2014)
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- Mediation, not litigation
- Ebola – update on the epidemic
- New editors for SAJCH and SAJOG
- Blood-borne infections in healthcare workers
- Consequences of increasing medical negligence litigation
- Recommendations for the management of sickle cell disease
- Khat (Catha edulis) chewing and orodental health
- CME: Immunology
- Surgical aspects of liver disease in children
Vol 104, No 10 (2014)
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- NCDs – the looming epidemic
- Preventing diabetic blindness
- Migrant health
- Glucocorticoids and lipid metabolism
- Sexual health of adolescents
- Cardiovascular risk in urban South Africans
- CME: Atopic dermatitis
Vol 104, No 9 (2014)
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- Hepatitis B vaccine at birth to prevent hepatocellular carcinoma
- Health in SA prisons – on the anniversary of Biko’s death
- Troponin surveillance after non-cardiac surgery
- Treatments for atrial fibrillation
- Hepatitis B immunity in children in oncology units
- Rheumatic heart disease on the decline
- CME: Medical management of pregnancy
Vol 104, No 8 (2014)
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- HPV vaccination debated
- Menopausal hormone therapy
- Medical evaluation of children prior to adoption
- Reporting of child abuse
- Ebola – what you need to know
- Geophagia in pregnancy
- Loss of detectability of HIV with cART in infants
- CME: Climate change and health
Vol 104, No 7 (2014)
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- Strengthening Health Systems – new HMPG journal to be launched
- Government expenditure on health research
- More on RWOPS
- Antimicrobial resistance: The South African context
- Smoking cessation after acute coronary syndrome
- Predicting outcome in traumatic brain injury
- CME: Paediatric palliative care
Vol 104, No 6 (2014)
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- Legalising medical use of cannabis
- SAMA – past, present and future
- Founder genes and Parkinson’s disease
- Children’s eyes and ears
- ART initiation targets
- CME: Sexual health in the South African context
Vol 104, No 5 (2014)
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- Fracking and health
- Odyssean and imported malaria
- INH prophylaxis – the pros
- A visual prostate symptom instrument
- Oral and oropharyngeal HPV
- Do HR practices drive doctors from the public health sector?
- CME: Breast cancer
Vol 104, No 4 (2014)
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- The Teddy Bear Clinic Constitutional Court case
- Dangers of children swallowing magnetic beads
- Safety of osteoporosis medication
- Neurological manifestations of the acute porphyrias
- SciELO (SA) – enhancing visibility of SA research
- CME: Spina bifida
Vol 104, No 3 (2014)
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- Cardiovascular prevention: Lifestyle and statins
- The cons of INH TB prophylaxis – pros to follow
- Research ethics evolution: Nuremberg to Helsinki
- New imaging for the diagnosis of childhood TB
- Markers to identify cardiovascular disease risk in HIV
- CME: Spina bifida
- Progress towards the Millennium Development Goals
Vol 104, No 2 (2014)
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- Palliative care in chronic disease
- Medicine and the humanities
- Alcohol-related harms: The real costs
- Strengthening pharmacovigilance
- CME: Peripheral vascular disease
Vol 104, No 1 (2014)
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- Medical male circumcision preventing HIV
- TB in HIV
- Percutaneous needle biopsy in extrapulmonary TB
- Guideline for use of opioids in chronic non-cancer pain
- HASA conference unpacked
- CME: Mental health and psychiatric assessment
2013
Vol 103, No 12 (2013)
• Festschrift: Professor Trefor Jenkins
• Paediatric spirometry
• Management of acute fever in children
• Internship training for primary care
• Neonatal blood transfusion
• Primary prevention of acute rheumatic fever
• Warfarin in non-valvular atrial fibrillation
Vol 103, No 11 (2013)
• Tobacco harms
• Smoking cessation clinical practice guideline
• Case for/against e-cigarettes
• Healthcare expenditure of smoking and obesity
• The ‘Noakes diet’
• Raise the CD4+ ART initiation threshold?
• Ralph Kirsch Golden Pen Award
Vol 103, No 10 (2013)
- World Food Day: 16 October
- SA's food (in)security and ‘nutritional transition’
- Prospects are improving for NHI
- Predicting cardiac risk in vascular surgery (SAVS-CHI)
- Voluntary medical male circumcision to prevent HIV
- Cell salvage in emergency surgery
- Malaria: Control to elimination
Vol 103, No 9 (2013)
• Treating major burns
• Trauma: South Africa’s other epidemic
• Critical care interventions
• Helminth infections
• Multiple sclerosis
• Heart failure management
Vol 103, No 8 (2013)
• Breast cancer in (South) Africa
• Genetics of breast cancer
• Genetic testing: The GP and the consumer
• SA and MDGs
• Who will deliver our grandchildren?
• Rheumatoid arthritis: Standard of care
Vol 103, No 7 (2013)
• The South African medico-legal landscape
• Evidence-based medicine – ‘boiling the frog’?
• ENT matters – HPV in the news again
• A tool for preventing trial co-enrolment
• Modern diabetes care