Table of Contents
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Contents
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Guest Editorial
Fever in children – what it means and what to do | PDF HTML |
Miriam Adhikari | 879 |
Editor's choice
Editor's Choice | PDF HTML |
Janet Seggie | 880 |
Correspondence
Report on one health approach: Risk Management for Neurocysticercosis workshop – 28th June 2013, Pretoria, South Africa | PDF HTML |
Nenene Daniel Qekwana | 881 |
The medical dictionary ‘tongue-in-cheek’ edition | PDF HTML |
Robin John Green, Kelly Hoffmann, Adéle Pentz | 881-882 |
Noakes misses the point | PDF HTML |
Jacques E Rossouw, Barbara V Howard | 882 |
Noakes’ low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet: Call for evidence | PDF HTML |
Tom Hilary Boyles, Sean Wasserman | 882-883 |
A laboratorian’s experience of implementing multiple point-of-care testing in HIV antiretroviral treatment clinics in South Africa | PDF HTML |
Lesley Scott | 883-884 |
Izindaba
Pretenders to the throne of affordable healthcare? | PDF HTML |
885-886 |
Discovery Health's take on Regulation 8 | PDF HTML |
887 |
RWOPS – light at the end of a dusty tunnel | PDF HTML |
888 |
Partnering up to get Eastern Cape healthcare delivery working | PDF HTML |
889-890 |
South Africa's scientists honoured as global lifesavers | PDF HTML |
890-892 |
Book reviews
Against the Odds: Health & Hope in South Africa. The story of Medical Education for Blacks in South Africa (MESAB). By Herb Kaiser and Joy Kaiser. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. ISBN: 978-148-189-6467. | PDF HTML |
Cynthia N T Sikakana | 892 |
When Doctors Don’t Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests. By Leana Wen and Joshua Kosowsky. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2013. ISBN: 9780312594916. | PDF HTML |
David Mordechai Favara | 893 |
Forum
A cost-effective strategy for primary prevention of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in children with pharyngitis | PDF HTML |
James H Irlam, Bongani M Mayosi, Mark E Engel, Thomas A Gaziano | 894-895 |
From ‘stepchild of primary healthcare’ to priority programme: Lessons for the implementation of the National Integrated School Health Policy in South Africa | PDF HTML |
Maylene Shung-King | 895-898 |
Developing generalism in the South African context | PDF HTML |
Amanda C Howe, Robert J Mash, Jannie F M Hugo | 899-900 |
Warfarin in non-valvular atrial fibrillation | PDF HTML |
Anthony J Dalby, Pieter Wessels, Lionel H Opie | 901-904 |
Editorial
Are community service doctors equipped to address priority health needs in South Africa? | PDF HTML |
Vanessa Burch, Ben van Heerden | 905 |
Research
A comparison of the pharmacokinetics of Aspen Ceftriaxone and Rocephin in community-acquired meningitis | PDF HTML |
Guy A Richards, Eugene Elliott, Erica J Shaddock, David Mushi, Mogiyana Mzileni, Roanne Ray, Stephen Rulisa, Freddy Seolwane, Sarah L Stacey, Anton Stoltz, Jacqueline P Venturas, Herman Schoeman | 906-909 |
Poverty, AIDS and child health: Identifying highest-risk children in South Africa | PDF HTML |
Lucie Cluver, Mark Boyes, Mark Orkin, Lorraine Sherr | 910-915 |
Resource implications of adopting a restrictive neonatal blood transfusion policy | PDF HTML |
M C Harrison, S Pillay, Y Joolay, N Rhoda, M S Raban, A R Horn, L Tooke | 916-917 |
Blood cultures in sick children | PDF HTML |
Harsha Lochan, Colleen Bamford, Brian Eley | 918-920 |
Effectiveness of sequential v. standard triple therapy for treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection in children in Nairobi, Kenya | PDF HTML |
Ahmed Laving, Rose Kamenwa, Shahin Sayed, Andrew Nyerere Kimang'a, Gunturu Revathi | 921-924 |
Combined paediatric liver-kidney transplantation: Analysis of our experience and literature review | PDF HTML |
Bernd Strobele, Jerome Loveland, Russell Britz, Errol Gottlich, Anna Welthagen, Jean Botha | 925-929 |
Internship training adequately prepares South African medical graduates for community service – with exceptions | PDF HTML |
T C Nkabinde, A Ross, S Reid, N M Nkwanyana | 930-934 |
A follow-up cross-sectional study of environmental lead exposure in early childhood in urban South Africa | PDF HTML |
Nisha Naicker, Angela Mathee, Brendon Barnes | 935-938 |
Chronic diseases are not being managed effectively in either high-risk or low-risk populations in South Africa | PDF HTML |
Martin Brand, Angela J Woodiwiss, Frederic Michel, Hendrik L Booysens, Olebogeng H I Majane, Muzi J Maseko, Martin G Veller, Gavin R Norton | 938-941 |
Relationship between environmental exposure to pesticides and anthropometric outcomes of boys in the rural Western Cape, South Africa | PDF HTML |
A A Ochieng, M A Dalvie, F Little, H Kromhout | 942-947 |
Guidelines
Management of acute fever in children: Guideline for community healthcare providers and pharmacists | PDF HTML |
Robin Green, Prakash Jeena, Shane Kotze, Humphrey Lewis, David Webb, Mike Wells | 948-954 |
Paediatric spirometry guideline of the South African Thoracic Society: Part 1 | PDF HTML |
R Masekela, D Gray, C Verwey, A Halkas, P M Jeena | 1036-1041 |
CPD
CPD Questionnaire | |
Festschrift: Professor Jenkins
Professor Trefor Jenkins: A tribute | PDF HTML |
Jennifer G R Kromberg, Michèle Ramsay, Amanda Krause, Himla Soodyall | 956 |
Human genetics in Johannesburg, South Africa: Past, present and future | PDF HTML |
Jennifer G R Kromberg, Amanda Krause | 957-961 |
The elusive gene for keratolytic winter erythema | PDF HTML |
Peter R Hull, Angela Hobbs, Shaun Aron, Michèle Ramsay | 961-965 |
Thyroid dysfunction in a cohort of South African children with Down syndrome | PDF HTML |
Shahida Moosa, David G Segal, Arnold L Christianson, Nerine E Gregersen | 966-970 |
Fanconi anaemia in black South African patients heterozygous for the FANCG c.637-643delTACCGCC founder mutation | PDF HTML |
Tasha Wainstein, Robyn Kerr, Claire L Mitchell, Smita Madaree, Fahmida B Essop, Elana Vorster, Rosalind Wainwright, Janet Poole, Amanda Krause | 970-973 |
Neural tube defects in Gauteng, South Africa: Recurrence risks and associated factors | PDF HTML |
Gloria Teckie, Amanda Krause, Jennifer G R Kromberg | 973-977 |
Haematological implications of folate food fortification | PDF HTML |
Jack Metz | 978-981 |
The molecular basis of mutagenesis – 40 years of research on genomic integrity | PDF HTML |
Errol C Friedberg | 982-983 |
Biology and genetics of oculocutaneous albinism and vitiligo – common pigmentation disorders in southern Africa | PDF HTML |
Prashiela Manga, Robyn Kerr, Michèle Ramsay, Jennifer G R Kromberg | 984-988 |
Testing for haemoglobinopathies in Johannesburg, South Africa: A 30-year review | PDF HTML |
Amanda Krause, Tasha Wainstein, Fahmida B Essop, Quintin Goodyear | 989-993 |
Diagnostic, carrier and prenatal genetic testing for fragile X syndrome and other FMR-1-related disorders in Johannesburg, South Africa: A 20-year review | PDF HTML |
Fahmida B Essop, Amanda Krause | 994-998 |
Genetic testing for Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophy in Johannesburg, South Africa | PDF HTML |
Robyn Kerr, Carol Robinson, Fahmida B Essop, Amanda Krause | 999-1004 |
STR null alleles complicate parentage testing in South Africa | PDF HTML |
Anthony B Lane | 1004-1008 |
Lemba origins revisited: Tracing the ancestry of Y chromosomes in South African and Zimbabwean Lemba | PDF HTML |
Himla Soodyall | 1009-1013 |
Attaining human dignity for people with birth defects: A historical perspective | PDF HTML |
Arnold L Christianson | 1014-1019 |
The role of patient advocacy/parent support groups | PDF HTML |
Judith G Hall | 1020-1022 |
Ethical issues and Huntington's disease | PDF HTML |
Jennifer G R Kromberg, Tina-Marié Wessels | 1023-1026 |
The influence of HIV status on prenatal genetic diagnosis choices | PDF HTML |
Justine S Bee, Merlyn Glass, Jennifer G R Kromberg, Arnold L Christianson | 1027-1031 |
Eating the dead in Madagascar | PDF HTML |
Gwyn Campbell | 1032-1034 |