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Table of Contents
Cover
| Cover | |
Contents
| Contents | |
Guest Editorial
| Fever in children – what it means and what to do | PDF HTML |
| Miriam Adhikari | 879 |
Editor's choice
| Editor's Choice | PDF HTML |
| Janet Seggie | 880 |
Correspondence
| Report on one health approach: Risk Management for Neurocysticercosis workshop – 28th June 2013, Pretoria, South Africa | PDF HTML |
| Nenene Daniel Qekwana | 881 |
| The medical dictionary ‘tongue-in-cheek’ edition | PDF HTML |
| Robin John Green, Kelly Hoffmann, Adéle Pentz | 881-882 |
| Noakes misses the point | PDF HTML |
| Jacques E Rossouw, Barbara V Howard | 882 |
| Noakes’ low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet: Call for evidence | PDF HTML |
| Tom Hilary Boyles, Sean Wasserman | 882-883 |
| A laboratorian’s experience of implementing multiple point-of-care testing in HIV antiretroviral treatment clinics in South Africa | PDF HTML |
| Lesley Scott | 883-884 |
Izindaba
| Pretenders to the throne of affordable healthcare? | PDF HTML |
| 885-886 |
| Discovery Health's take on Regulation 8 | PDF HTML |
| 887 |
| RWOPS – light at the end of a dusty tunnel | PDF HTML |
| 888 |
| Partnering up to get Eastern Cape healthcare delivery working | PDF HTML |
| 889-890 |
| South Africa's scientists honoured as global lifesavers | PDF HTML |
| 890-892 |
Book reviews
| Against the Odds: Health & Hope in South Africa. The story of Medical Education for Blacks in South Africa (MESAB). By Herb Kaiser and Joy Kaiser. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. ISBN: 978-148-189-6467. | PDF HTML |
| Cynthia N T Sikakana | 892 |
| When Doctors Don’t Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests. By Leana Wen and Joshua Kosowsky. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2013. ISBN: 9780312594916. | PDF HTML |
| David Mordechai Favara | 893 |
Forum
| A cost-effective strategy for primary prevention of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in children with pharyngitis | PDF HTML |
| James H Irlam, Bongani M Mayosi, Mark E Engel, Thomas A Gaziano | 894-895 |
| From ‘stepchild of primary healthcare’ to priority programme: Lessons for the implementation of the National Integrated School Health Policy in South Africa | PDF HTML |
| Maylene Shung-King | 895-898 |
| Developing generalism in the South African context | PDF HTML |
| Amanda C Howe, Robert J Mash, Jannie F M Hugo | 899-900 |
| Warfarin in non-valvular atrial fibrillation | PDF HTML |
| Anthony J Dalby, Pieter Wessels, Lionel H Opie | 901-904 |
Editorial
| Are community service doctors equipped to address priority health needs in South Africa? | PDF HTML |
| Vanessa Burch, Ben van Heerden | 905 |
Research
| A comparison of the pharmacokinetics of Aspen Ceftriaxone and Rocephin in community-acquired meningitis | PDF HTML |
| Guy A Richards, Eugene Elliott, Erica J Shaddock, David Mushi, Mogiyana Mzileni, Roanne Ray, Stephen Rulisa, Freddy Seolwane, Sarah L Stacey, Anton Stoltz, Jacqueline P Venturas, Herman Schoeman | 906-909 |
| Poverty, AIDS and child health: Identifying highest-risk children in South Africa | PDF HTML |
| Lucie Cluver, Mark Boyes, Mark Orkin, Lorraine Sherr | 910-915 |
| Resource implications of adopting a restrictive neonatal blood transfusion policy | PDF HTML |
| M C Harrison, S Pillay, Y Joolay, N Rhoda, M S Raban, A R Horn, L Tooke | 916-917 |
| Blood cultures in sick children | PDF HTML |
| Harsha Lochan, Colleen Bamford, Brian Eley | 918-920 |
| Effectiveness of sequential v. standard triple therapy for treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection in children in Nairobi, Kenya | PDF HTML |
| Ahmed Laving, Rose Kamenwa, Shahin Sayed, Andrew Nyerere Kimang'a, Gunturu Revathi | 921-924 |
| Combined paediatric liver-kidney transplantation: Analysis of our experience and literature review | PDF HTML |
| Bernd Strobele, Jerome Loveland, Russell Britz, Errol Gottlich, Anna Welthagen, Jean Botha | 925-929 |
| Internship training adequately prepares South African medical graduates for community service – with exceptions | PDF HTML |
| T C Nkabinde, A Ross, S Reid, N M Nkwanyana | 930-934 |
| A follow-up cross-sectional study of environmental lead exposure in early childhood in urban South Africa | PDF HTML |
| Nisha Naicker, Angela Mathee, Brendon Barnes | 935-938 |
| Chronic diseases are not being managed effectively in either high-risk or low-risk populations in South Africa | PDF HTML |
| Martin Brand, Angela J Woodiwiss, Frederic Michel, Hendrik L Booysens, Olebogeng H I Majane, Muzi J Maseko, Martin G Veller, Gavin R Norton | 938-941 |
| Relationship between environmental exposure to pesticides and anthropometric outcomes of boys in the rural Western Cape, South Africa | PDF HTML |
| A A Ochieng, M A Dalvie, F Little, H Kromhout | 942-947 |
Guidelines
| Management of acute fever in children: Guideline for community healthcare providers and pharmacists | PDF HTML |
| Robin Green, Prakash Jeena, Shane Kotze, Humphrey Lewis, David Webb, Mike Wells | 948-954 |
| Paediatric spirometry guideline of the South African Thoracic Society: Part 1 | PDF HTML |
| R Masekela, D Gray, C Verwey, A Halkas, P M Jeena | 1036-1041 |
CPD
| CPD Questionnaire | |
Festschrift: Professor Jenkins
| Professor Trefor Jenkins: A tribute | PDF HTML |
| Jennifer G R Kromberg, Michèle Ramsay, Amanda Krause, Himla Soodyall | 956 |
| Human genetics in Johannesburg, South Africa: Past, present and future | PDF HTML |
| Jennifer G R Kromberg, Amanda Krause | 957-961 |
| The elusive gene for keratolytic winter erythema | PDF HTML |
| Peter R Hull, Angela Hobbs, Shaun Aron, Michèle Ramsay | 961-965 |
| Thyroid dysfunction in a cohort of South African children with Down syndrome | PDF HTML |
| Shahida Moosa, David G Segal, Arnold L Christianson, Nerine E Gregersen | 966-970 |
| Fanconi anaemia in black South African patients heterozygous for the FANCG c.637-643delTACCGCC founder mutation | PDF HTML |
| Tasha Wainstein, Robyn Kerr, Claire L Mitchell, Smita Madaree, Fahmida B Essop, Elana Vorster, Rosalind Wainwright, Janet Poole, Amanda Krause | 970-973 |
| Neural tube defects in Gauteng, South Africa: Recurrence risks and associated factors | PDF HTML |
| Gloria Teckie, Amanda Krause, Jennifer G R Kromberg | 973-977 |
| Haematological implications of folate food fortification | PDF HTML |
| Jack Metz | 978-981 |
| The molecular basis of mutagenesis – 40 years of research on genomic integrity | PDF HTML |
| Errol C Friedberg | 982-983 |
| Biology and genetics of oculocutaneous albinism and vitiligo – common pigmentation disorders in southern Africa | PDF HTML |
| Prashiela Manga, Robyn Kerr, Michèle Ramsay, Jennifer G R Kromberg | 984-988 |
| Testing for haemoglobinopathies in Johannesburg, South Africa: A 30-year review | PDF HTML |
| Amanda Krause, Tasha Wainstein, Fahmida B Essop, Quintin Goodyear | 989-993 |
| Diagnostic, carrier and prenatal genetic testing for fragile X syndrome and other FMR-1-related disorders in Johannesburg, South Africa: A 20-year review | PDF HTML |
| Fahmida B Essop, Amanda Krause | 994-998 |
| Genetic testing for Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophy in Johannesburg, South Africa | PDF HTML |
| Robyn Kerr, Carol Robinson, Fahmida B Essop, Amanda Krause | 999-1004 |
| STR null alleles complicate parentage testing in South Africa | PDF HTML |
| Anthony B Lane | 1004-1008 |
| Lemba origins revisited: Tracing the ancestry of Y chromosomes in South African and Zimbabwean Lemba | PDF HTML |
| Himla Soodyall | 1009-1013 |
| Attaining human dignity for people with birth defects: A historical perspective | PDF HTML |
| Arnold L Christianson | 1014-1019 |
| The role of patient advocacy/parent support groups | PDF HTML |
| Judith G Hall | 1020-1022 |
| Ethical issues and Huntington's disease | PDF HTML |
| Jennifer G R Kromberg, Tina-Marié Wessels | 1023-1026 |
| The influence of HIV status on prenatal genetic diagnosis choices | PDF HTML |
| Justine S Bee, Merlyn Glass, Jennifer G R Kromberg, Arnold L Christianson | 1027-1031 |
| Eating the dead in Madagascar | PDF HTML |
| Gwyn Campbell | 1032-1034 |