Table of Contents
Cover
Cover | |
Contents
Contents | |
1-2 |
From the Editor
Climate change - no denial | |
B Farham | 3 |
Guest Editorial
A novel blood test for tuberculosis prevention and treatment | |
A Penn-Nicholson, T J Scriba, M Hatherill, R G White, T Sumner | 4-5 |
Correspondence
Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) in South Africa | |
J J Fagan, J Wetter, C Joseph, B Donde | 6 |
Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) in South Africa | |
C A Joseph | 7 |
Cost considerations in determining the affordability of adjuvant trastuzumab in breast cancer | |
M Sereda, R P Abratt | 8-9 |
Cost considerations in determining the affordability of adjuvant trastuzumab in breast cancer | |
W Szpak, R P Abratt | 10-11 |
Yes, we can eradicate tuberculosis in South Africa | |
W Shasha | 12 |
From an exasperated pathologist | |
R D Mohanlal | 13 |
Izindaba
30 days in medicine | |
14 |
Obituaries
Steve Lawn | |
L-G Bekker, R Wood | 16 |
Pieter Stephanus Bothma | |
P-S Bothma | 17 |
Theo Berkowitz | |
L Berkowitz | 18 |
Editorial
Missed opportunities for circumcising boys | |
P Millard, N Goldstuck | 19 |
South Africa's salt reduction strategy: Are we on track, and what lies ahead? | |
J Webster, C Crickmore, K Charlton, K Steyn, E Wentzel-Viljoen, P Naidoo | 20-21 |
Continuing Medical Education
Anaemia (part 1) | |
N Alli | 22 |
Anaemia: Approach to diagnosis | |
N Alli, J Vaughan, M Patel | 23-27 |
In Practice
Cutting the cost of South African antiretroviral therapy using newer, safer drugs | |
W F Venter, B Kaiser, Y Pillay, F Conradie, G B Gomez, P Clayden, M Matsolo, C Amole, L Rutter, F Abdullah, E J Abrams, C P Casas, M Barnhart, A Pillay, A Pozniak, A Hill, L Fairlie, M Boffito, M Moorhouse, M Chersich, C Serenata, J Quevedo, G Loots | 28-30 |
Outbreak of carbapenem-resistant Providencia rettgeri in a tertiary hospital | |
V S Tshisevhe, M R Lekalakala, N Tshuma, S Janse van Rensburg, N Mbelle | 31-33 |
The National Health Insurance, the decentralised clinical training platform, and specialist outreach | |
R I Caldwell, C Aldous | 39-40 |
The intraocular CD4/CD8 ratio in a black South African patient with Behçet’s disease uveitis | |
A Makgotloe | 41-42 |
Pulmonary nocardiosis caused by Nocardia otitidiscaviarum in an adult asthmatic female patient: The presence of acid-fast branching filaments is always significant | |
A Mahgoub, S A Gumaa, M R P Joseph, M S Saleh, A H A Elsheikh, A I Elkhalifa, E Elhaj, R R M Salih, M E Hamid | 43-45 |
Research
Classifying snakebite in South Africa: Validating a scoring system | |
Darryl Wood, B Sartorius, R Hift | 46-51 |
Immunisation coverage in the rural Eastern Cape – are we getting the basics of primary care right? Results from a longitudinal prospective cohort study | |
K le Roux, O Akin-Olugbade, L S Katzen, C Laurenzi, N Mercer, M Tomlinson, M J Rotheram-Borus | 52-55 |
Surveillance of healthcare-associated infection in hospitalised South African children: Which method performs best? | |
A Dramowski, M F Cotton, A Whitelaw | 56-63 |
Retinopathy of prematurity in a cohort of neonates at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa | |
Q Keraan, C Tinley, A Horn, T Pollock, J Steffen, Y Joolay | 64-69 |
Characteristics and outcome of long-stay patients in a paediatric intensive care unit in Cape Town, South Africa | |
T L Nupen, A C Argent, B Morrow | 70-75 |
Supernumerary registrar experience at the University of Cape Town, South Africa | |
S Peer, S A Burrows, N Mankahla, J J Fagan | 76-79 |
A novel FKRP-related muscular dystrophy founder mutation in South African Afrikaner patients with a phenotype suggestive of a dystrophinopathy | |
M M Mudau, F Essop, A Krause | 80-82 |
Primary cutaneous malignancies in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa: A retrospective histopathological review | |
K York, N C Dlova, C Y Wright, N P Khumalo, P E Kellett, R Kassanjee, A Mosam | 83-88 |
CPD
CPD questionnaire | |