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Vol 105 - 7 - 2015
Table of Contents
Cover
| Cover | |
Contents
| Contents | |
| 508-509 |
Guest Editorial
| Anger and Afrophobia in South Africa: What is a health practitioner to do? | |
| Wahbie Long, Bonga Chiliza, Dan J Stein | 510 |
Editor's choice
| Editor's Choice | |
| Janet Seggie | 511-512 |
Correspondence
| Encephalopathy caused by thiamine deficiency | |
| Kathleen Bateman | 513 |
| Legal assisted suicide in South Africa | |
| Jonathan Victor Larsen | 513-514 |
| New horizons for the repair of skin defects | |
| Heinz Rode | 514-515 |
| Trends in lead exposure in a rural mining town in South Africa, 1991 - 2008 | |
| Nisha Naicker, Angela Mathee | 515 |
| William Guybon Atherstone: His 8-day and 1 600 km house call to Oudtshoorn in 1890 | |
| Stephen A Craven | 516 |
Izindaba
| Tugela Ferry’s extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis – 10 years on | |
| 517-520 |
| Noakes’s adversaries get him in the ‘dock’ | |
| 520-521 |
| South Africans inured to death | |
| 522-524 |
Obituaries
| Harry Stein, 1925 - 2014 | |
| Ashraf Hassen Coovadia, Stephen Tollman | 524 |
Forum
| The bronchiolitis season is upon us – recommendations for the management and prevention of acute viral bronchiolitis | |
| Heather J Zar, Debbie A White, Brenda Morrow, Charles Feldman, Sam Risenga, Refiloe Masekela, Humphrey Lewis, Prakash Jeena, Shabir A Madhi | 525-526 |
| Doctor-assisted suicide: What is the present legal position in South Africa? | |
| David J McQuoid-Mason | 526-527 |
| The importance of identified cause-of-death information being available for public health surveillance, actions and research | |
| Pam Groenewald, Virginia Azevedo, Johann Daniels, Juliet Evans, Andrew Boulle, Tracey Naledi, Debbie Bradshaw | 528-530 |
| Social franchising primary healthcare clinics – a model for South African National Health Insurance? | |
| Andrew Ken Lacey Robinson | 531-534 |
| The state of South African internships: A national survey against HPCSA guidelines | |
| Sumrit Bola, Eudiet Trollip, Fran Parkinson | 535-539 |
| A South African family with oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy: Clinical and molecular genetic characteristics | |
| Clara Maria Schutte, Cecelia M Dorfling, Riaan van Coller, Engela M Honey, Elizabeth Jansen van Rensburg | 540-543 |
Editorial
| Understanding the genetic diversity of South Africa’s peoples | |
| Amanda Krause | 544-545 |
| Genomics in medicine: From promise to practice | |
| Michael F Urban | 545-547 |
| The Cochrane Corner in the SAMJ: Summaries of Cochrane systematic reviews for evidence-informed practice | |
| Tamara Kredo, Taryn Young, Charles S Wiysonge, Michael McCaul, James Volmink | 548 |
Research
| Impact of fibrinolytics on the outcome of empyema in South African children | |
| Marco Zampoli, Alexia Kappos, Charl Verwey, Rendani Mamathuba, Heather J Zar | 549-553 |
| The impact of highly active antiretroviral therapy on the burden of bacterial lower respiratory tract infections in children. | |
| K R de Campos, D D Granga, S Olorunju, R Masekela | 554-557 |
| Identification of a mutation in the ubiquitin-fold modifier 1-specific peptidase 2 gene, UFSP2, in an extended South African family with Beukes hip dysplasia | |
| Christopher Mark Watson, Laura A Crinnion, Lindsay Gleghorn, William G Newman, Rajkumar Ramesar, Peter Beighton, Gillian A Wallis | 558-563 |
| Impact of an educational intervention and clinical performance dashboard on neonatal bloodstream infections | |
| Moegammad Shukri Raban, Colleen Bamford, Yaseen Joolay, Michael C Harrison | 564-566 |
| Prevalence of Blomia tropicalis allergy in two regions of South Africa | |
| A C Jeevarathnum, A van Niekerk, R Green, P Becker, R Masekela | 567-569 |
| Nodular thyroid disease and thyroid malignancy: Experience at Polokwane Mankweng Hospital Complex, Limpopo Province, South Africa | |
| M M Z U Bhuiyan, A Machowski | 570-572 |
| Household fuel use and child respiratory ill health in two towns in Mpumalanga, South Africa | |
| Patricia Nicole Albers, Caradee Y Wright, Kuku V V Voyi, Angela Mathee | 573-577 |
| Maternal near miss and maternal death in the Pretoria Academic Complex, South Africa: A population-based study | |
| Priya Soma-Pillay, Robert C Pattinson, Lerato Langa-Mlambo, Bongani S S Nkosi, Angus Peter MacDonald | 578-563 |
| Intracranial suppuration: Review of an 8-year experience at Umtata General Hospital and Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital, Eastern Cape, South Africa | |
| M A Anwary | 584-588 |
| Observed full blood count and lymphocyte subset values in a cohort of clinically healthy South African children from a semi-informal settlement in Cape Town | |
| Denise Lawrie, Helen Payne, Martin Nieuwoudt, Deborah Kim Glencross | 589-595 |
| Evaluation of the diagnostic accuracy of the HemoCue device for detecting anaemia in healthy school- aged children in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa | |
| T P Gwetu, M K Chhagan | 596-599 |
| Use of EMLA cream as a topical anaesthetic before venepuncture procedures in field surveys: A practice that helps children, parents and health professionals | |
| T P Gwetu, M K Chhagan | 600-602 |
Continuing Medical Education
| Nutrition in toddlers | |
| R J Green | 603 |
| Vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency in Africa and the Middle East, despite year-round sunny days | |
| R J Green, G Samy, M S Miqdady, M El-Hodhod, O O Akinyinka, G Saleh, J Haddad, S A Alsaedi, A Y Mersal, A Edris, M Salah | 603-605 |
| Management of severe acute malnutrition | |
| J Cloete | 605 |
| Nutrition in children with long-term health conditions | |
| A Westwood | 606 |
| Nutritional support of children with chronic liver disease | |
| E D Nel, A J Terblanche | 607 |
| Iron deficiency in children | |
| R Thejpal | 607 |
CPD
| CPD questionnaire | |