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2013

Vol 103, No 12 (2013)

• Festschrift: Professor Trefor Jenkins

• Paediatric spirometry

• Management of acute fever in children

• Internship training for primary care

• Neonatal blood transfusion

• Primary prevention of acute rheumatic fever

• Warfarin in non-valvular atrial fibrillation

Vol 103, No 11 (2013)

• Tobacco harms

• Smoking cessation clinical practice guideline

• Case for/against e-cigarettes

• Healthcare expenditure of smoking and obesity

• The ‘Noakes diet’

• Raise the CD4⁺ART initiation threshold?

• Ralph Kirsch Golden Pen Award

Vol 103, No 10 (2013)

World Food Day: 16 October
SA's food (in)security and ‘nutritional transition’
Prospects are improving for NHI
Predicting cardiac risk in vascular surgery (SAVS-CHI)
Voluntary medical male circumcision to prevent HIV
Cell salvage in emergency surgery
Malaria: Control to elimination

Vol 103, No 9 (2013)

• Treating major burns

• Trauma: South Africa’s other epidemic

• Critical care interventions

• Helminth infections

• Multiple sclerosis

• Heart failure management

Vol 103, No 8 (2013)

• Breast cancer in (South) Africa

• Genetics of breast cancer

• Genetic testing: The GP and the consumer

• SA and MDGs

• Who will deliver our grandchildren?

• Rheumatoid arthritis: Standard of care

Vol 103, No 7 (2013)

• The South African medico-legal landscape

• Evidence-based medicine – ‘boiling the frog’?

• ENT matters – HPV in the news again

• A tool for preventing trial co-enrolment

• Modern diabetes care

Vol 103, No 6 (2013)

• RWOPS – crisis in the offing

• Key role of antibiotic stewardship

• Latex allergy – plight, rights and fights of HCWs

• Rx of community-acquired UTIs

• Chronic rhinitis management

• Triage of children
• Karabus – WMA warns against working in UAE
• Guidance on the legality of mass circumcision
• Toxicovigilance – poisonings surveyed
• Human papillomavirus – prevalence and vaccination
• Update on the management of hepatitis B

Vol 103, No 4 (2013)

• Rape in South Africa – a call to action
• E Cape corruption set to continue
• ‘Do not resuscitate’ orders unpacked
• Africa’s lethal motorists
• Thrombosis – the biggest killer

Vol 103, No 3 (2013)

• Perspectives on NHI
• Triage tool for emergencies in children
• Updated asthma management
• TB in doctors
• STDs are typically multiple

Vol 103, No 2 (2013)

• Appropriate technology for underweight neonates
• A 5×5 agenda for NCDs in Africa
• Advice for the 2013 ’flu season
• Spinal anaesthesia is not without risk
• ‘Third epidemic’ of retinopathy of prematurity

Vol 103, No 1 (2013)

• Karabus' ordeal continues
• Gynaecologists and GPs in favour of chaperone use
• ‘19th-century’ in-hospital mortality rates reported at GSH
• Lymphoma mistaken for TB in HIV patients
• Office spirometry guideline

2012

Vol 102, No 12 (2012)

• Roadblocks ahead on gilt-edged RWOPS highway?
• 'Cognitive enhancement' – the debate begins
• 'Reflex' screening for Cryptococcal disease to be phased in
• Women and girls welcome NHI
• Hyponatraemia and cerebral oedema in female athletes
• High prevalence of antenatal depression in HIV+ women

Vol 102, No 11 (2012)

• Will our public healthcare sector fail the NHI?
• Addressing SA’s shortage of healthcare personnel
• Management of bites from man’s best friend
• NVP-based ART risky for immunocompetent pregnant women
• Up-to-date management of biliary atresia (Supplement)

Vol 102, No 10 (2012)

• Private healthcare – getting back to the patient
• Improving maternal health outcomes
• Sexual healthcare for the disabled
• NHI – a GP’s approach to costing
• Point-of-care diagnosis of TB – benefits and challenges

Vol 102, No 9 (2012)

• Taking our journals in tablet form
• E. Cape doctors facing the ghost of Biko
• Achieving weight loss and avoiding obesity
• The cardiovascular health of the nation
• Reducing the sodium content of high-salt foods
• Need for a graduated driving licence

Vol 102, No 8 (2012)

• 'Politically correct’ behaviour change – an HIV/pregnancy threat?
• Challenging infective endocarditis prevention
• Medical internship and community service slaves
• Foreign green pastures for South African doctors
• Allergic rhinitis guidelines

Vol 102, No 7 (2012)

• E Cape: rock the boat, walk the plank?
• Alcohol, advertising and SA’s youth
• Antibiotics and resistant organisms
• Neonatal rotavirus and necrotising enterocolitis
• Coronary artery disease in young South African Indians

Vol 102, No 6 (2012)

• Silicosis claim to boost primary health care?
• Aminoglycoside-induced hearing loss
• Helicobacter pylori eradication therapy
• Skin closure for caesarean section
• UCT 100th anniversary issue

Vol 102, No 5 (2012)

• A beacon of hope at last? 274
• Rational use of isotretinoin in acne 282
• Scholarship success 288
• Obesity in childhood 289, 295
• Guidelines for management of neuropathic pain 312

Vol 102, No 4 (2012)

• Handicapped in the ‘sticks’ – policy the real disability 200
• Diagnosis by nose 231
• Blood culture audits valuable at peripheral hospitals 232
• Human resources for health research in Africa 236
• A simple new vision score for prostate symptoms 245

Vol 102, No 3 (2012)

• HPCSA: security and quicker registration remain elusive 115
• Validity of sick certificates from traditional health practitioners 129
• Medical terms in African languages 132
• Cataract surgery improves care of orphans 140
• Nurses risk acquiring blood-borne virus infection 153

Vol 102, No 2 (2012)

• Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV progress 81
• Nurse initiation and maintenance of ART 98
• Cell phone text messages as a learning tool 100
• Equivalent efficacy of generic ceftriaxone 102
• Acute infective diarrhoea/gastroenteritis in infants 104

Vol 102, No 1 (2012)

HIV prevention – blazing carrots, cracking whips
‘Saviour siblings’ and the law
Hypertension in goldminers
How well do nurse prescribers manage HIV?
Treating crush syndrome in the rural setting

2011

Vol 101, No 12 (2011)

Bridging the public/private health divide
Malaria risk - be warned!
Auditing TB/HIV/STI care in rural districts
How useful is routine lab testing in acute-onset psychosis?
Safety of PSA administered by medical officers

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