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Table of Contents
Cover
| Cover | |
Contents
| Contents | |
| 830-831 |
Announcement
| New article submission protocol: SAMJ goes live with Editorial Manager | |
| Emma Buchanan | 832 |
From the Editor
| The cannabis debate: Let's do the research | |
| Bridget Farham | 833 |
Guest Editorial
| Recognising and mitigating the risk of altitude-related illness | |
| Ross Hofmeyr, Walther Meyer, Mike James, Rik De Decker | 834-835 |
Debate
| Psychoactive substances: Position statement on harm reduction | |
| Dan Joseph Stein, Eva Manyedi, for the Executive Committee of the Central Drug Authority | 836 |
| Position statement on cannabis: A step forwards | |
| Dan Joseph Stein, Eva Manyedi, for the Executive Committee of the Central Drug Authority | 837 |
| Adding to the cannabis debate: Comment on various Central Drug Authority papers | |
| Keith Scott | 838-839 |
| Clarifying the position statements of the Central Drug Authority Executive Committee | |
| Dan J Stein, Eva Manyedi, for the Executive Committee of the Central Drug Authority | 840 |
Correspondence
| Social justice and research using human biological material: A right to respond | |
| Safia Mahomed, Melodie Nöthling-Slabbert, Michael S Pepper | 842 |
| The potential danger of journal summary services | |
| Timo Freeth | 842 |
| Effects of oestrogen on prepubescent children | |
| Francois Daubenton | 843 |
| ‘50 for 50’: A celebration of 50 years of cancer research at the IARC Global Cancer Conference in Lyon, France | |
| Christine Taljaard, Caradee Yael Wright | 844-846 |
Izindaba
| Cutting-edge ZAR120 million boost for SA’s surgical skills | |
| 847 |
| 'Shamed' Durban doctor claims ZAR20 million | |
| 848 |
| Two fatalities in Durban’s multiple hospital strikes | |
| 849 |
| Give us peer-educators, not nurses, say sex workers | |
| 850 |
Editorial
| Child deaths in South Africa: Lessons from the child death review pilot | |
| Shanaaz Mathews, Lorna J Martin, David Coetzee, Chris Scott, Yasheen Brijmohun | 851-852 |
Continuing Medical Education
| Functional neurosurgery (part 2) | |
| J M Nico Enslin | 853 |
| Surgical management of movement disorders | |
| J M Nico Enslin | 854-857 |
| Surgical management of pain | |
| Sally J Rothemeyer, J M Nico Enslin | 858-860 |
In Practice
| Recipes for obstetric spinal hypotension: The clinical context counts | |
| David G Bishop, Reitze N Rodseth, Robert A Dyer | 861-864 |
| ‘Getting under our skin’: Introducing banked allograft skin to burn surgery in South Africa | |
| Nikki Allorto, Alan David Rogers, Heinz Rode | 865-866 |
| A biobank to support HIV malignancy research for sub-Saharan Africa | |
| Johann Wilhelm Schneider, Micheline Sanderson, Dieter Geiger, Mostafa Nokta, Sylvia Silver | 867-869 |
| CRISPR-Cas: Revolutionising genome engineering | |
| Samantha Anne Nicholson, Michael Sean Pepper | 870-871 |
| Improving the recording of clinical medicolegal findings in South Africa | |
| Ruxana Jina, Johanna Marianne Kotzé | 872-873 |
| Postoperative care: From a legal point of view, whose responsibility is it? | |
| David Jan McQuoid-Mason | 874-876 |
| Invasive carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae infection at a paediatric hospital: A case series | |
| Oliver Ombeva Malande, Annerie du Plessis, Diane Rip, Colleen Bamford, Brian Eley | 877-882 |
| Human brucellosis in South Africa: Public health and diagnostic pitfalls | |
| Justyna Maria Wojno, Clinton Moodley, Jaco Pienaar, Natalie Beylis, Lourens Jacobsz, Mark P Nicol, Jenny Rossouw, Colleen Bamford | 883-885 |
| Sirolimus-induced lymphoedema | |
| Kagiso G Motse, Mduduzi J Mashabane | 886-887 |
| Neonatal tetanus associated with skin infection | |
| M Maharaj, N Dungwa | 888-890 |
| Three cases of intentional isoniazid overdose – a life-threatening condition | |
| David Francis Stead, Carolyn Ruth Mason | 891-892 |
| Primary ethmoid sinus squamous cell carcinoma in a young adult man | |
| N Goncalves, L A Burnell, S Motakef, P C Modi | 893-894 |
Research
| The South African child death review pilot: A multiagency approach to strengthen healthcare and protection for children | |
| Shanaaz Mathews, Lorna J Martin, David Coetzee, Chris Scott, Threnesan Naidoo, Yasheen Brijmohun, Karisha Quarrie | 895-899 |
| A cross-sectional study of socioeconomic status and cardiovascular disease risk among participants in the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiological (PURE) Study | |
| Bonaventure Amandi Egbujie, Ehimario Uche Igumbor, Thandi Puoane | 900-906 |
| The histological significance of atypical glandular cells on cervical cytology: Experience at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa | |
| Lance D Hoffman, Hue-Tsi Wu | 907-911 |
| Missed appointments among rifampicin-resistant tuberculosis (RR-TB) patients at a decentralised RR-TB outpatient clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa | |
| Renu Gajee, Kathryn Schnippel, Nompumelelo Mthupha, Batanayi Muzah, Rebecca Berhanu | 912-917 |
| Effects of diabetes mellitus on health-related quality of life at a tertiary hospital in South Africa: A cross-sectional study | |
| R Daya, Z Bayat, F J Raal | 918-928 |
| A follow-up study of a large group of children struck by lightning | |
| Lynette Mary Ann Silva, Mary Ann Cooper, Ryan Blumenthal, Neil Pliskin | 929-932 |
| The PAWPER tape and the Mercy method outperform other methods of weight estimation in children at a public hospital in South Africa | |
| Vanessa G Georgoulas, Mike Wells | 933-939 |
| What are the communication skills and needs of doctors when communicating a poor prognosis to patients and their families? A qualitative study from South Africa | |
| L L Ganca, L Gwyther, R Harding, M Meiring | 940-944 |
CPD
| CPD questionnaire | |