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

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

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

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

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

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

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