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Table of Contents
From the Editor
| Why integrative medicine? | |
| JP van Niekerk | 1009 |
Editor's choice
| Editors choice | |
| JP van Niekerk | 1013 |
Correspondence
| First do no harm | |
| Neil Andrew Cameron | 1014 |
| Quantifying ARV Risk in Pregnancy | |
| Theresa Marie Rossouw | 1014 |
| Retained swab at Frere Hospital | |
| Damian Luiz Clarke | 1016 |
| Service, training and research in Infertility in Public Hospitals in South Africa | |
| Jayati Kusari Basu | 1018 |
Izindaba
| Rural doctors consider legal action | |
| 1020 |
| XDR TB – humane confinement ‘a priority’ | |
| 1026 |
| Slim pickings as 2008 health staff crisis looms | |
| 1032 |
Forum
| Public Health in Africa: The Role of National Public Health Institutes | |
| Barry David Schoub | 1036 |
| Mechanical bowel preparation in Gynaecological surgery: are we doing more harm than good? | |
| Matthys Hendrik Botha | 1040 |
| Darwinian medicine: an evolutionary perspective on health and disease | |
| Muhammad Aadil Spocter, Goran Štrkalj | 1044 |
| A case of misdiagnosed bacillary angiomatosis | |
| Jonathan Sheldon | 1050 |
Obituaries
| Basil Edge | |
| Walter Loening | 1052 |
| MA de Kock | |
| Andries J Brink | 1052 |
| Corretha van Heerden | |
| cornelius johannes schoeman | 1054 |
Editorial
| Getting the facts of death right | |
| Pam Groenewald, Desiree Pieterse | 1056 |
| Influences on the choice of health professionals to practice in rural areas | |
| Helmuth Reuter, Ian Couper | 1060 |
Scientific letters
| Physical activity in rural South Africa: are current surveillance instruments yielding valid results? | |
| Ian Cook | 1064 |
| Pica and food craving in adults with iron deficiency in Bloemfontein, South Africa | |
| Vernon Johan Louw, Phillip Du Preez, Asha Malan, Louis Van Deventer, Deidré Van Wyk, Gina Joubert | 1069 |
| Neglect in the care of advanced maternal age pregnant South African women | |
| S Watchham, S Schon, Arnold Christianson | 1072 |
Original articles
| Executive cognitive impairment detected by simple bedside testing is associated with poor glycaemic control in type 2 diabetes | |
| Hayley de Wet, Naomi Levitt, Brent Tipping | 1074 |
| Death Notification Form Errors | |
| Elsie Helena Burger, Lize Van der Merwe, Jimmy Volmink | 1077 |
| Influences on the choice of health professionals to practice in rural areas | |
| Ian Couper, Jannie Hugo, Hoffie Conradie, Khaya Mfenyana | 1082 |
| Success of a scholarship scheme for rural students | |
| Andrew J Ross | 1087 |
Abstracts
| Heart 2 heart Africa 2007 22 - 25 November, Sun City | |
| 1091-1110 |
Festschrift: Professor Hendrik Johannes Koornhof
| PROFESSOR HJ KOORNHOF – A TRIBUTE AND AN APPRECIATION | |
| Barry David Schoub | 1113 |
| Microbes, Molecules, Maladies and Man | |
| Adriano G Duse | 1115 |
| Determinants of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in South Africa | |
| Karin Weyer, Jonathan Levin, Johanna Lancaster, Jeannette Brand, Martha Van der Walt | 1120 |
| Risk factors for antibiotic resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae | |
| Keith Paul Klugman | 1129 |
| Clinical significance of antimicrobial resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae | |
| Michael R. Jacobs | 1133 |
| A Pivotal Role for Pneumolysin in the Immunopathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention of Pneumococcal Disease | |
| Charles Feldman, Ronald Anderson | 1141 |
| Antibiotic resistant gonococci: past, present and future | |
| David Arthur Lewis | 1146 |
| The Influence of Concomitant HIV Infection on the Serological Diagnosis of Primary Syphilis in Southern Africa | |
| Ronald Ballard, Hendrik Koornhof, C-Y Chen, F Radebe, H Fehler, Ye Htun | 1151 |
| Changes in the Patterns of Sexually Transmitted Infection among South African Mineworkers Associated with the Emergence of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic | |
| Htun Ye, F Radebe, HG Fehler, RC Ballard | 1155 |
| A BRIEF HISTORY OF INFECTION CONTROL | |
| Arderne Forder | 1161 |
| The Anaemia of Infection | |
| jack metz | 1165 |
| The end of cell culture in diagnostics: is molecular diagnosis the Harry Potter or the Lord Voldermort of clinical virology as a speciality? | |
| William F Carman, Hubert GM Niesters | 1169 |
| Eradication of Disease: The Case Study of Polio | |
| Barry David Schoub | 1177 |
| The Rise and Rise of Enteropathogenic E. coli | |
| Roy Robins-Browne | 1182 |
| The changing pattern of pathology in black South Africans | |
| Charles Isaacson | 1187 |
| Chronic Mucocutaneous Candidiasis. An Immunological Mystery | |
| Arthur Ronald Rabson | 1190 |
| Malaria control in South Africa - challenges and successes | |
| Lucille Blumberg, John Frean | 1193 |
| Tick bite fever and Q fever: South African perspective | |
| John Frean, Lucille Blumberg | 1198 |
| Doing HIV Medicine in Southern Africa. What does the Epidemic Teach Us? | |
| David Colin Spencer | 1203 |
| The impact of HIV/AIDS on blood transfusion practice in South Africa: | |
| Trefor Jenkins | 1206 |
| Role of Microbial Risk Assessment in Food Safety | |
| Marianne Despina Miliotis | 1211 |
| Development of e-Juba, a preliminary proof of concept UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) designed to facilitate the transportation of microbiological test samples from remote rural clinics to NHLS laboratories. | |
| Barry Mendelow, Peter Muir, Turcia Boshielo, John Robertson | 1215 |