2016
Vol 106, No 5 (2016)
CME
Acute viral bronchiolitis (part 2)
IN PRACTICE
A multifaceted approach to managing diabetes
CASE REPORTS
Haemotoxic snakebite in rural KwaZulu-Natal
The case of the exploding egg
REVIEW
Maternal deaths from bleeding associated with caesarean delivery: A national emergency
RESEARCH
Trends in non-communicable disease mortality, 1997 - 2010
Costs of delivering HPV vaccination to schools in KwaZulu-Natal
Publication trends in SA clinical trials
Vol 106, No 4 (2016)
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
Vol 106, No 3 (2016)
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
Vol 106, No 2 (2016)
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
Vol 106, No 1 (2016)
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!
2015
Vol 105, No 12 (2015)
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
Vol 105, No 11 (2015)
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
Vol 105, No 10 (2015)
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
Vol 105, No 9 (2015)
- 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
Vol 105, No 8 (2015)
- 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
Vol 105, No 7 (2015)
- Doctor-assisted suicide
- Cause-of-death information – key to public health action
- Social franchising primary healthcare clinics – a model for NHI?
- Introducing the ‘Cochrane Corner’
- Fibrinolytics for empyema
- Reducing neonatal bloodstream infections
- What do maternal ‘near misses’ tell us?
- CME: Nutrition of infants and toddlers
Vol 105, No 6 (2015)
- A good complaints system – solution to SA’s medicolegal mayhem?
- Non-alcohol-related Wernicke’s encephalopathy
- Repair of laparoscopic bile duct injuries
- Management of burns begins at home … with prehospital cooling
- Paediatric dental chair sedation
- The South African Surgical Outcomes Study
- Acute preoperative beta-blockade harms hypertensive vascular surgery patients
- Predictors at diagnosis for poor-outcome severe Crohn’s disease
Vol 105, No 5 (2015)
- Antimicrobial resistance
- The menacing bread tag
- Recommendations for treatment of URTIs
- Community- v. healthcare-acquired bloodstream infections
- Rheumatic heart disease in Africa
- Severity-of-illness score to predict death of TB patients in the ICU
- Diabetes management in children
- Current role of splenectomy for ITP
- CME: Antibiotic stewardship
Vol 105, No 4 (2015)
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- Basic and comprehensive emergency obstetric and neonatal care
- Optimal staffing to ensure safe maternity units
- Food insecurity in urban South Africa
- Management of obstetric haemorrhage
- MMed supervision – a path out of the swamp
- Caesarean section and maternal death – latest Saving Mothers report
- Intrapartum asphyxia and hypoxic encephalopathy
Vol 105, No 3 (2015)
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- Over-servicing’, ‘under servicing’ and abandonment’: What is the law?
- Care and prevention of congenital disorders
- Dementia in rural South Africa
- Two-dose HPV vaccination is sufficient
- Traumatic brain injury, the hidden pandemic
- Kidney disease in methamphetamine users
- Emergency care research priorities
- CME: Diagnosis and management of chronic kidney disease
Vol 105, No 2 (2015)
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- Digitalis reappraised
- Quality improvement ‘tool’ for trauma services
- The South African National Cancer Registry
- End-stage kidney disease and HIV positivity
- Linking cervical cancer screening to HPV vaccination
- Predictors of mortality following non-cardiac surgery
- Human myiasis
Vol 105, No 1 (2015)
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- The humanistic side of medical education
- Medical certification of death
- The iPhone as a screening tool for deafness
- The HPV Vaccine and Cervical Cancer Screen (VACCS) project
- Severe blunt thoracic trauma: Differences between adults and children
- CME: Food allergy
2014
Vol 104, No 12 (2014)
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- Amniocentesis and risk of HIV transmission
- Call for neonatal premedication prior to intubation
- Early detection of retinoblastoma
- Why aren’t women getting safe abortions?
- Increased MTCT of HIV in adolescent pregnancy
- VTE – pro ling of patient risk
- CME: Tuberculosis and HIV
Vol 104, No 11 (2014)
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- Mediation, not litigation
- Ebola – update on the epidemic
- New editors for SAJCH and SAJOG
- Blood-borne infections in healthcare workers
- Consequences of increasing medical negligence litigation
- Recommendations for the management of sickle cell disease
- Khat (Catha edulis) chewing and orodental health
- CME: Immunology
- Surgical aspects of liver disease in children
Vol 104, No 10 (2014)
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- NCDs – the looming epidemic
- Preventing diabetic blindness
- Migrant health
- Glucocorticoids and lipid metabolism
- Sexual health of adolescents
- Cardiovascular risk in urban South Africans
- CME: Atopic dermatitis
Vol 104, No 9 (2014)
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- Hepatitis B vaccine at birth to prevent hepatocellular carcinoma
- Health in SA prisons – on the anniversary of Biko’s death
- Troponin surveillance after non-cardiac surgery
- Treatments for atrial fibrillation
- Hepatitis B immunity in children in oncology units
- Rheumatic heart disease on the decline
- CME: Medical management of pregnancy
Vol 104, No 8 (2014)
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- HPV vaccination debated
- Menopausal hormone therapy
- Medical evaluation of children prior to adoption
- Reporting of child abuse
- Ebola – what you need to know
- Geophagia in pregnancy
- Loss of detectability of HIV with cART in infants
- CME: Climate change and health
Vol 104, No 7 (2014)
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- Strengthening Health Systems – new HMPG journal to be launched
- Government expenditure on health research
- More on RWOPS
- Antimicrobial resistance: The South African context
- Smoking cessation after acute coronary syndrome
- Predicting outcome in traumatic brain injury
- CME: Paediatric palliative care