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2020
Vol 110, No 11 (2020)
COVID-19 IN SOUTH AFRICA
COVID-19 deaths in South Africa: 99 days since South Africa’s first death
Essential medicine selection during the COVID-19 pandemic: Enabling access in uncharted territory
Opportunistic pathogenic fungal co-infections are prevalent in critically ill COVID-19 patients: Are they risk factors for disease severity?
EDITORIALS
Research imperialism resurfaces in South Africa in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic – this time, via a digital portal
Reflections for global public health research and evidence-based medicine during the COVID-19 pandemic
IN PRACTICE
Implementing malaria control in South Africa, Eswatini and southern Mozambique during the COVID-19 pandemic
Is the COVID-19 regulation that prohibits parental visits to their children who are patients in hospital invalid in terms of the Constitution? What should hospitals do?
RESEARCH
Smoking and drinking habits of women in subsequent pregnancies after specific advice about the dangers of these exposures during pregnancy
Let’s get physical: A prospective pedometer study of doctors working in a South African emergency department
Vitamin D levels in patients admitted to the intensive care unit and their association with organ dysfunction and glutamine levels
Unrecognised postoperative residual curarisation in developing countries remains a common problem
Vol 110, No 9 (2020)
GUEST EDITORIAL
The COVID-19 crisis in South Africa: Protecting the vulnerable
EDITORIAL
Paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome: What should we look out for in South Africa?
IN PRACTICE
Preparing healthcare facilities to operate safely and effectively during the COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19 antibody testing: From hype to immunological reality
The role of serological testing in the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak
REVIEW
COVID-19 in children: Should we be worried?
RESEARCH
Epidemiology of human rabies in South Africa, 2008 - 2018
South Africans’ understanding of and response to the COVID-19 outbreak: An online survey
The effect of COVID-19 on essential surgical admissions in South Africa
Unspoken victims: A national study of male rape incidents and police investigations in South Africa
Comparison of adherence measures using claims data in the private health sector
Vol 110, No 4 (2020)
COVID-19
Getting ahead of the curve: The importance of social distancing
Optimising influenza vaccination during a SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in South Africa
COVID-19 as an occupational disease
COVID-19: An urgent re-look at health worker training
Prevention of COVID-19 in the workplace
IN PRACTICE
Adjuvant trastuzumab in early HER2- positive breast cancer: Optimal duration of therapy in South Africa
RESEARCH
National expenditure on health research in South Africa
Water-wise hand preparation
Developmental outcomes in survivors of neonatal hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy
Prevalence of a postoperative troponin leak in patients with cardiac risk factors undergoing knee and hip arthroplasty
Vol 110, No 3 (2020)
GUEST EDITORIAL
Failing to respond to health promotion imperatives could hamper NHI
EDITORIAL
The need to regulate e-cigarettes amidst health concerns
IN PRACTICE
Medical cannabis: What practitioners need to know
RESEARCH
Factors influencing consent rates to deceased organ donation in the Western Cape
Impact of endemic HIV on emergencycare service delivery in South Africa
Bodies without names: Unidentified decedents at Salt River Mortuary, Cape Town
Anal squamous cell carcinoma: The influence of HIV on presentation and management outcome
Vol 110, No 2 (2020)
CME
Thrombotic disorders (part 1)
REVIEW
Understanding the basics of cannabidiol from cannabis to apply to therapeutics in epilepsy
IN PRACTICE
The Competitions Commission Health Market Inquiry Report: An overview and key imperatives
An analysis of recent stroke cases in South Africa: Trend, seasonality and predictors
RESEARCH
A decade of hepatitis C at the UCT/GSH Liver Clinic in the pre-direct-acting antivirals era
Direct-acting antiviral therapy for hepatitis C: The initial experience of the UCT/GSH Liver Clinic
HIV and breast cancer: A mammographic analysis
Vol 110, No 1 (2020)
IN PRACTICE
Communication about routine childhood vaccination
Interventions for preventing pregnancy in adolescents
Subtherapeutic efavirenz and cytomegalovirus co-infection in HIV-infected pregnant women
RESEARCH
Dose-related adverse events in patients prescribed clofazimine for drug-resistant tuberculosis
Comparison of cumulative antibiograms in adult intensive care and high-care units
The burden of depression and anxiety among UCT medical students
2019
Vol 109, No 12 (2019)
IN PRACTICE
Eliminating conflict of interest in infant formula funding
Time to end routine high-dose vitamin A supplementation?
RESEARCH
The pH of hair straighteners
Diabetes in the Eastern Cape
Low serum testosterone and type 2 diabetes
Regulated and unregulated substance use among patients in Tshwane
Vol 109, No 11 (2019)
CME
Haematology
IN PRACTICE
Intrathecal tranexamic acid during spinal anaesthesia: A lethal error
Electronic reminders for urgent treatment: Use with caution
Pit latrines and spider bites
RESEARCH
One-stop haematuria clinic
Orthopaedic referrals using a smartphone app
International benchmarking and the price of immunosuppressive drugs
Elevated unidentified antibodies in sickle cell anaemia patients receiving blood transfusions
Vol 109, No 10 (2019)
GUEST EDITORIAL
Clinical associates in South Africa
CME
Haematological malignancies
IN PRACTICE
Figures of the dead: A decade of TB mortality
Complications of spitting cobra bites
RESEARCH
Removal of Implanon NXT implants
Hazardous drinking behaviour among patients on ART
Medicolegal perspectives of interpersonal violence
Vol 109, No 9 (2019)
GUEST EDITORIAL
Climate change and adolescents: The role of youth activism
IN PRACTICE
Increasing deceased organ donor numbers: 18 months of the Wits Transplant Procurement Model
Registration of amiloride in South Africa
Emergency management of calcium channel blocker overdose
RESEARCH
Congenital syphilis: High morbidity and mortality in a preventable disease
Uncovering adverse events and human error associated with imaging trauma patients
Neural tube defect diagnosis and outcomes
Vol 109, No 8 (2019)
EDITORIAL
The case for stool banks in South Africa
IN PRACTICE
Global injustice in sport – the Caster Semenya ordeal
The ethics of administering testosterone-reducing drugs to Caster Semenya
RESEARCH
Factors associated with missed and delayed DTP3 vaccination in two South African communities
Hepatitis E virus in patients with acute hepatitis in Cape Town
Hepatitis E in pig-derived food products in Cape Town
An observational study of safe and risky practices in funeral homes in South Africa
Vol 109, No 7 (2019)
CME
Diabetes in pregnancy
GUEST EDITORIAL
Violence and heat: How will climate change affect us?
CASE REPORT
Recurrent idiopathic spontaneous coronary artery dissection
RESEARCH
#Feesmustfall 2016: Effects on clinical medical students
Increase in blood pressure in a mixed-ancestry SA population
Workman’s compensation for occupational hand injuries
Maternal alcohol use and child development
Vol 109, No 6 (2019)
GUEST EDITORIAL
Climate change and diarrhoeal disease
CME
Medical genetics, genomics and the future of medicine
IN PRACTICE
Rational use of fluoroquinolones
Using crime surveys for SDG monitoring and violence prevention
REVIEW
Reducing hookah pipe use
RESEARCH
Audit of management of diabetic ketoacidosis at a tertiary hospital in Johannesburg
Causes of maternal death at Natalspruit Hospital
Preventing warfarin-induced birth defects
Provision of healthcare to individuals with cleft lip and palate
Incidence and characteristics of homicides in elderly age groups in Johannesburg