GUEST EDITORIAL

End-of-life care and organ donation:

Policy leads needed

CME

Wilderness medicine (part 1)

IN PRACTICE

Nurses’ role in end-of-life care and

organ donation

CASE REPORT

Blistering rash in a young male child

RESEARCH

Inefficient procurement undermining

medicines access

Interprofessional communication in organ

transplantation

Burden of gunshot injuries on orthopaedic

resources

EDITORIAL

SA statistics not suitable for monitoring

injury and violence SDGs

IN PRACTICE

Lessons from history – the vulnerable in

research

TB among medical undergraduates in

Cape Town

Perils of the femoral haemodialysis catheter

REVIEW

Timing and safety of sentinel lymph node

biopsy and neoadjuvant chemotherapy

RESEARCH

Improving ICD coding through training and

support

Clinical management of cytomegalovirus

retinitis

Gunshot-acquired spinal cord injury in SA

GUEST EDITORIAL

Undergraduate antibiotic stewardship

training

CME

Tuberous sclerosis complex

IN PRACTICE

The future of the voluntary active euthanasia

debate in South Africa

Using social media: ethical and legal aspects

CASE REPORT

Lead poisoning in shooting-range workers

RESEARCH

Critical care admission of South African

surgical patients

Influence of HIV on tuberculosis

GUEST EDITORIAL

Evidence-based decision-making for

primary care

CORRESPONDENCE

Death by maladministration

CME

Prevention of childhood injuries (part 2)

IN PRACTICE

Presenting features of tuberous sclerosis

complex

CASE REPORT

Lead poisoning in shooting-range workers

RESEARCH

Contraception coverage in South African

women

Wound infection secondary to snakebite

Hip and knee arthroplasty waiting lists

GUEST EDITORIAL 

Understanding antibiotic resistance at the population level

CME 

Prevention of childhood injuries (part 1)

IN PRACTICE 

Preventing iatrogenic infections in neonates and children

RESEARCH 

Efficacy of intravitreal anti-VEGF for retinopathy of prematurity 

Trends in admissions, morbidity and outcomes at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital 

Accuracy of nurse triage in an academic emergency department in Gauteng

 CME 

Anaemia (part 2)

IN PRACTICE 

Skin scarring after IM diclofenac injections

CASE REPORT 

Metabolic acidosis in metformin overdose

RESEARCH 

Antibiotic stewardship: 4-year outcomes from GSH 

HIV infection and age dependence of squamous cell skin carcinoma 

Gastric cancer in KwaZulu-Natal 

Adult sickle cell disease in Cape Town

GUEST EDITORIAL

A novel TB blood test

CME

Anaemia (part 1)

CASE REPORT

Behçet disease uveitis: CD4/CD8

RESEARCH

COP 21 and public hospitals – an opportunity for change
Healthcare-associated infection in hospitalised children – what works best?

GUEST EDITORIAL

Women, gender-based violence and HIV

CME

Child Abuse

IN PRACTICE

Male circumcision - policy and law

CASE REPORT

Psychosis in neurosyphilis

RESEARCH

Gender-based violence risk among men in rural KwaZulu-Natal

Sefeguarding child and maternal health in South Africa

CME

Sexual violence

IN PRACTICE

Isoniazid preventive therapy – obstacles to success

CASE REPORT

Migraine treatment and epilepsy

RESEARCH

Barriers to obstetric care among maternal near-misses

Medical waste disposal – are we getting it right?

GUEST EDITORIAL

Antibiotic stewardship – partnering with nurses and

pharmacists

CME

Intimate partner violence

IN PRACTICE

Causes of childhood deaths – too many unknowns

Oesophageal button batteries – a surgical emergency

CASE REPORT

Angio-oedema associated with colistin

RESEARCH

Cardiovascular disease risk in teachers – a substantial

future burden

Inappropriate medicine prescribing among the elderly

GUEST EDITORIAL

Mitigating high-altitude illness

DEBATE

Cannabis – where are we now?

Functional neurosurgery (part 2)

IN PRACTICE

Human brucellosis in South Africa

CASE REPORT

Neonatal tetanus associated with a common skin

infection

RESEARCH

The South African child death review pilot

Effects of diabetes on health-related quality of life at

a tertiary hospital

GUEST EDITORIAL 

2016 National Rheumatic Fever Week 

CME 

Functional neurosurgery (part 1)

IN PRACTICE 

Rheumatic heart disease: Chronic conditions and the school health service

Lifestyle interventions in type 2 diabetes

CASE REPORT 

Acute functional mitral incompetence

RESEARCH 

Tertiary hypertension screening and management

The HIV healthcare transition: Adolescence to adulthood

GUEST EDITORIAL

Childhood pneumonia – the Drakenstein Child

Health Study

CME

Adolescent health (part 2)

IN PRACTICE

The role of ward-based outreach in ending child deaths

The Expanded Programme on Immunisation in SA

CASE REPORT

Rigid cervical collar resolves rheumatoid pannus mass

RESEARCH

Risk factors and outcomes in contrast-induced

nephropathy

Malaria success story in Comoros

EDITORIAL

Response to the Central Drug Authority’s position

statement on cannabis

CME

Adolescent health (part 1)

IN PRACTICE

Antibiotic stewardship and respiratory infections

Heavy alcohol use in patients on HAART

Central Drug Authority: Position statement on cannabis

CASE REPORT

Right ventricular outflow tract aneurysms and

endomyocardial fibrosis

RESEARCH

Where have all the gun deaths gone?

Screening for retinopathy of prematurity

Changing Kaposi’s sarcoma presentation with

HAART

EDITORIALS

Where are the males?

Unpacking the new proposed regulations for South

African traditional health practitioners

CME

Acute viral bronchiolitis (part 1)

IN PRACTICE

Fetal assessment and negligent misdiagnosis

A multifaceted hospital-wide intervention to increase

hand hygiene compliance

Biofilms associated with bowel necrosis

Case report: Autoimmune dermatitis triggered by

medical abortion

RESEARCH

Where do children die and what are the causes?

The S’Khokho ‘bushcan’ initiative

HIV and diabetes mellitus – a deadly combination

Socioeconomic factors associated with asthma

prevalence and severity

EDITORIALS

Is South Africa at risk for Zika virus disease?

Mitochondrial donation to patients with mitochondrial

DNA disease

CME

Cardiology (part 3)

IN PRACTICE

Amendments to the Sexual Offences Act: Implications for

doctors and researchers

Case Report: A subepidermal blistering disorder

RESEARCH

BRCA founder mutation in high-risk Afrikaner families

Hereditary cancers – do GPs have a knowledge gap?

Point-of-care INR monitoring

The Phoenix Lifestyle Project

Health risks to the elderly living near mine dumps

GUEST EDITORIAL

Strengthening surgical research capacity in sub-Saharan Africa – collaboration is key

EDITORIALS

National Forum on Surgery and Anaesthesia

Biological sample export from SA – bioexploitation

CME

Cardiology (part 2)

IN PRACTICE

Chronic kidney disease – transplantation the answer

RESEARCH

Choose your hospital for survival in emergency intraperitoneal surgery

Intussusception in the developing world: The Baragwanath experience

Dedicated paediatric burns units key to saving lives, but in short supply

CME

Cardiology

Review

Treatment of type 2 diabetes: The challenges of hypeglycaemia and hypoglycaemia

Guest Editorial

mHealth

Editorial

World Bank smoke and mirriors

In Practice 

Kangaroo mother care

Lower limb weakness: Screen for porphyria

Research

Failure to administer fibrinolytic therapy for AMI

Four-dose HBV vaccination for SA'S babes!

Climate change and health 

Ebola – views from the field and ethical challenges 

Should doctors sue patients? 

#FeesMustFall and universal health coverage

Health risks of excess solar UV radiation – our children are ignorant! 

Outbreak of carbapenemase-producing K. pneumoniae

HIV viral load measurement on dried blood spots 

PET-CT evaluation of pulmonary mass lesions in a TB-endemic area 

CME: Rheumatology

The power of vaccination 

Efavirenz as a cause of ataxia in children

Screening for hearing impairment in children 

Time for ‘basic antenatal care plus’? 

Missing essentials and desirables for family planning

HPV vaccine roll-out continues

Anti-vaccination lobbying on the South African internet

First report from the South African Children’s Tumour Registry 

CME: Adolescent health

South Africa’s fourth epidemic: The ugly face of trauma

• Paediatric polytrauma – pedestrian-motor vehicle collisions 823

• Motor vehicle accidents (MVAs) and interpersonal violence (IPV) 827

• Road traffic crashes as the cause of major incidents 831

• Spinal cord injury due to MVAs and IPV 835

• Fatal community assault 848

Inappropriate use of emergency medical services in KZN 844

Emergency centres and TB transmission risks 862

CME: Case reports

• Ebola and the haemorrhagic fevers 
• Endoscopic lung volume reduction for severe emphysema 
• Bronchial thermoplasty in the management of severe asthma
• Anticoagulation of pregnant patients with mechanical heart valves 
• Gender and sexual diversity 
• POC testing of diabetic ketoacidosis 
• Time to implement infant HIV testing at 9 months? 
• CME: update on COPD

• Anterior chamber paracentesis in Mx of infectious uveitis 
• Contributions of SA’s first black doctors 
• Tobacco use in SA 
• Time to regard HIV as a chronic condition
• One NCD begets another
• Carcinogenic nitrosamines and Ca oesophagus
• Mental health burden of ‘tik’ users
• CME: Fits, faints and funny turns