• E Cape: rock the boat, walk the plank?
• Alcohol, advertising and SA’s youth
• Antibiotics and resistant organisms
• Neonatal rotavirus and necrotising enterocolitis
• Coronary artery disease in young South African Indians

•    Silicosis claim to boost primary health care?
•    Aminoglycoside-induced hearing loss
•    Helicobacter pylori eradication therapy
•    Skin closure for caesarean section
•    UCT 100th anniversary issue

• A beacon of hope at last? 274
• Rational use of isotretinoin in acne 282
• Scholarship success 288
• Obesity in childhood 289, 295
• Guidelines for management of neuropathic pain 312

• Handicapped in the ‘sticks’ – policy the real disability 200
• Diagnosis by nose 231
• Blood culture audits valuable at peripheral hospitals 232
• Human resources for health research in Africa 236
• A simple new vision score for prostate symptoms 245

• HPCSA: security and quicker registration remain elusive 115
• Validity of sick certificates from traditional health practitioners 129
• Medical terms in African languages 132
• Cataract surgery improves care of orphans 140
• Nurses risk acquiring blood-borne virus infection 153

• Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV progress 81
• Nurse initiation and maintenance of ART 98
• Cell phone text messages as a learning tool 100
• Equivalent efficacy of generic ceftriaxone 102
• Acute infective diarrhoea/gastroenteritis in infants 104

HIV prevention – blazing carrots, cracking whips
‘Saviour siblings’ and the law
Hypertension in goldminers
How well do nurse prescribers manage HIV?
Treating crush syndrome in the rural setting

Bridging the public/private health divide
Malaria risk - be warned!
Auditing TB/HIV/STI care in rural districts
How useful is routine lab testing in acute-onset psychosis?
Safety of PSA administered by medical officers

Foreign-qualified colleagues — ‘them’ or ‘us’?
Reducing necrotising enterocolitis
Prisons and the TB time bomb
Climate change and health
Adult chronic myeloid leukaemia guideline

• HR crisis - overwhelmed not an option
• South Africa’s drug policy should be revised
• Addressing problem gambling
• Silver for burns - when cheap is expensive
• Knowing cost of lab tests saves expenditure

• Caring for public health managers reaps dividends 618
• Screening for prostatic cancer 634, 642
• HIV and antiretroviral therapy 645, 651, 655
• Can reactive vaccination control cholera outbreaks? 659
• Detecting hearing loss in the newborn 665

Testing Aaron’s hearing skills
Cataract surgery – failing to meet its targets
South Africa needs more doctors
Lessons from the 2009 measles epidemic
Evaluating paediatric pain incidence and management

NHI: Does state need private sector help?
A blinding abdominal pain
Optimal sizes of hospitals
HIV/AIDS increases use of blood products
South African Indian genetic disorders

• Anti-corruption torchbearers in health
• Immediate HIV treatment saves costs
• Dilated cardiomyopathy
• Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
• MRSA increase in Botswana

• Nowhere to hide for hospital managers
• Does vaginal delivery require consent?
• Drug administration errors
• Antimicrobial resistance patterns
• Stroke diagnosis and management

Indemnity cover hikes
Cryptococcal meningitis
Reducing malaria deaths with parenteral artesunate
Race in biomedical research
Does testing TB patients for HIV improve access to ART?

Jo'burg's tertiary hospital - belt tightening chokes efficacy
Trauma - and more trauma
Disclosure of child murder - an ethical research dilemma
The rat lung-worm in South Africa
Phaechromocytoma - 30-year audit

Gender dysphoria - attitudes and ignorance
The research that led to heart transplantation
TB - control failure and prison effects
Burnout of junior doctors
HIV, low BMI and cardiomyopathy

HIV/AIDS in Zimbambwe dropping like a stone
Informed consent for vaginal deliveries?
Appropriate medical education
Down syndrome
Ecological factors and blindness

NHI - sufficient human, financial and management capacity?
South Africa's health priorities - policies and practice
Prenatal alcohol exposure and abruptio placentae
Optimal use of blood cultures
Diagnosis and treatment of chronic pancreatitis

MPS regulatory drama
Research ethics guidelines: SA versus the USA
Maternal deaths associated with eclampsia
helicobacter pylori in the Eastern Cape
Stroke guideline

Quo vadis health care quality assurance?
MPS and the new medical indemnity regulations
Rethinking home testing for HIV
Mental health requires advocacy
Shallow-water diving injuries

Porn - a threat to child development?
Ethical issues raised by the SAPIT study
Gender-based violence
Where is the 'planning' in family planning services
Clinical prediction of a low CD4 count

No 'political deals' for unlucky few striker-doctors: HPCSA
Haiti: South Africa reflections
The four pillars of rheumatic heart disease control
Paradoxical reduction in upper genital tract infection
Canada's health care system for South Africa?

Gauteng - corruption in health services
Subcutaneous fractionated heparin in venous thrombo-embolism
Anaemia in children in Limpopo
Testicular cancer in an African developing country
Snakebite in India