Table of Contents
Cover
Cover | |
Contents
Contents | |
385-386 |
Guest Editorial
Medical marijuana and beyond | |
J P de V van Niekerk | 387 |
Editor's choice
Editor's Choice | |
Janet Seggie | 388 |
Correspondence
Importance of shielding blood donors from harm | |
Eric Klug, Marek Gebka, Farrel Hellig, Michael Alison, Barbara Townsend, Vaman Naidoo | 389 |
Are all fish oil supplements safe during pregnancy? | |
Maretha Opperman, Spinnler Benade | 389-390 |
A meaningful and sustainable outreach programme in southern Gauteng | |
Ken Robert L Huddle, G Chita, S Naicker | 390 |
Izindaba
E Cape illegal immune-booster given ‘false’ approval – officials suspended | |
391-393 |
SAMA grasps the racial nettle, winning huge majority vote | |
394-395 |
Netcare – KPMG breached client privilege to boost Competitions Commissions probe | |
395-397 |
Obituaries
Christian George Albertyn | |
Lynda Albertyn-Cross | 397 |
Book reviews
273 Amazing Days: The Story of Life Before Birth. By Peter Folb. AuthorHouse UK, 2014. ISBN (paperback) 978-1 4918-8814-8; ISBN (ebook) 978-1-4918-8815-5 | |
J P de V van Niekerk | 398 |
Across the Wide Zambezi: A Doctor’s Life in Africa. By Warren Durrant. London: PublishNation, 2013. ISBN 978-1-291-44343-1 | |
J P de V van Niekerk | 398 |
Forum
Legalising medical use of cannabis in South Africa: Is the empirical evidence sufficient to support policy shifts in this direction? | |
Charles D H Parry, Bronwyn J Myers | 399-400 |
Haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis: A fulminant syndrome associated with multiorgan failure and high mortality that frequently masquerades as sepsis and shock | |
Brendon Price, Jennifer Lines, Dorothy Lewis, Nicole Holland | 401-406 |
'Urban insight’: is eye care neglect the exception or the rule? | |
Angela Mathee, Ansunel de la Rey, Andre Swart, Sophie Plagerson, Nisha Naicker | 407-408 |
Additive manufacturing: From implants to organs | |
Tania S Douglas | 408-409 |
Editorial
A reflection on the South African Medical Association – past, present and future | |
Mzukisi Grootboom, Mark Sonderup | 410-411 |
A putative founder effect for Parkinson’s disease in South African Afrikaners | |
Jonathan Carr, Riaan van Coller | 411-412 |
Research
Identification of a common founder couple for 40 South African Afrikaner families with Parkinson’s disease | |
Gerhard Geldenhuys, Brigitte Glanzmann, Debbie Lombard, Sihaam Boolay, Jonathan Carr, Soraya Bardien | 413-419 |
No evidence for association of insulin receptor substrate-1 Gly972Arg variant with type 2 diabetes mellitus in a mixed-ancestry population of South Africa | |
Zelda Vergotine, Andre Pascal Kengne, Rajiv Timothy Erasmus, Tandi Edith Matsha | 420-423 |
The prevalence of hypotension and hypoxaemia in blunt traumatic brain injury in the prehospital setting of Johannesburg, South Africa: A retrospective chart review | |
W Stassen, T Welzel | 424-427 |
Setting ART initiation targets in response to changing guidelines: The importance of addressing both steady-state and backlog | |
Catherine Martin, Nicolette P Naidoo, W D Francois Venter, Ambereen Jaffer, Pierre M Barker | 428-430 |
Paediatric otitis media at a primary healthcare clinic in South Africa | |
L Biagio, D W Swanepoel, C Laurent, T Lundberg | 431-435 |
Tick-box admission forms improve the quality of documentation of surgical emergencies, but have limited impact on clinical behaviour | |
Grant L Laing, J L Bruce, Damian Luiz Clarke | 435-438 |
Continuing Medical Education
Sexual health in the South African context | |
Megan M Campbell, Dan J Stein | 439 |
Sexual dysfunction: A systematic review of South African research | |
Megan Michele Campbell, Dan J Stein | 440 |
An integrative treatment model for patients with sexual dysfunctions | |
P Ramlachan, M M Campbell | 445 |
Female sexual dysfunction | |
Ros Boa | 446 |
Male sexual dysfunction | |
P Ramlachan, M M Campbell | 447 |
Hypersexual disorder in general practice | |
M M Campbell, D J Stein | 448 |
Transgender issues in South Africa, with particular reference to the Groote Schuur Hospital Transgender Unit | |
D Wilson, A Marais, A De Villiers, R Addinall, M M Campbell, The Transgender Unit | 449 |
Sexual function and ageing | |
L Geffen | 450 |
CPD
CPD questionnaire | |