Table of Contents
Cover
Cover | |
Contents
Contents | |
252-253 |
Guest Editorial
Neurosurgery in South Africa | |
Graham Fieggen | 254 |
Editor's choice
Editor's Choice | |
Janet Seggie | 255 |
Correspondence
Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia in North African and sub-Saharan patients | |
Cecilia Canzonieri, Federica Ornati, Elina Matti, Francesco Chu, Guido Manfredi, Carla Olivieri, Elisabetta Buscarini, Fabio Pagella | 256-257 |
Physician, heal thyself: Creative writing as a tool for self-care and enhancing care of others | |
Dawn Garisch | 257-258 |
The neglected triple disease burden and interaction of helminths, HIV and tuberculosis: An opportunity for integrated action in South Africa | |
Z L Mkhize-Kwitshana, M L H Mabaso | 258-259 |
Palliative care: Definition of euthanasia | |
David James Jackson Muckart, Dean Gopalan, Timothy Hardcastle, Eric Hodgson, D J McQuoid-Mason | 259-260 |
Palliative care: Preventing misconceptions | |
Liz Gwyther, D J McQuoid-Mason | 260-261 |
WHIDMT: Rossouw and Howard blatantly miss the point | |
Timothy David Noakes | 261-262 |
Izindaba
Community service doctors ‘slaves to the State’ – court challenge | |
263-265 |
E Cape health officials nearly turn TB victims into cash cows | |
265-267 |
Quack remedy cast - ‘We were pawns, not told, didn’t know, won’t say, don’t care’ | |
268-269 |
Obituaries
Ivan James Nurick | |
Basil Michaelides | 270 |
Hessel Utian | |
Solly Levin | 270 |
Book reviews
A School of Struggle: Durban’s Medical School and the Education of Black Doctors By Vanessa Noble. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1-86914-252-0 | |
Dan Ncayiyana | 271-272 |
A School of Struggle: Durban’s Medical School and the Education of Black Doctors By Vanessa Noble. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2013. ISBN 978-1- 86914-252-0 | |
Yackoob Kassim Seedat | 272 |
Forum
Diagnosis and management of Pompe disease | |
Louisa Bhengu, Alan Davidson, Paul Jacobs du Toit, Carla Els, Trevor Gerntholtz, Kenny Govendrageloo, Bertram Henderson, Lawrence Mubaiwa, Varughese Sheeba | 273-274 |
The risks of gastrointestinal injury due to ingested magnetic beads | |
Sharon Cox, Robin Brown, Alastair Millar, Alp Numanoglu, Angus Alexander, Andre Theron | 277-278 |
The safety of osteoporosis medication | |
F S Hough, Susan L Brown, Bilkish Cassim, Mike R Davey, Wimpie de Lange, Tobie J de Villiers, Graham C Ellis, Stan Lipschitz, Mac Lukhele, John M Pettifor | 279-282 |
Acute intermittent porphyria presenting as progressive muscular atrophy in a young black man | |
Christine Herculine Albertyn, Mark Sonderup, Alan Bryer, Anne Corrigall, Peter Meissner, Jeannine M Heckmann | 283-285 |
Editorial
The neurological manifestations of the acute porphyrias | |
Mark W Sonderup, Richard J Hift | 285-286 |
Increased visibility and discoverability of South African health-related research | |
S Veldsman, W Gevers | 287 |
Research
High prevalence of cisplatin-induced ototoxicity in Cape Town, South Africa | |
Heather Whitehorn, Mkhonzeni Sibanda, Miguel Lacerda, Timothy Spracklen, Lebogang Ramma, Sameera Dalvie, Raj Ramesar | 288-291 |
Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors v. angiotensin receptor blockers in the management of hypertension: A funder’s perspective | |
J L Makkink, O B W Greeff | 292-294 |
Mammographic screening for breast cancer in a resource-restricted environment | |
Justus P Apffelstaedt, Lisa Dalmayer, Karin Baatjes | 294-296 |
Results of a pilot programme of mammographic breast cancer screening in the Western Cape | |
Justus P Apffelstaedt, Retha Hattingh, Karin Baatjes, Natalie Wessels | 297-298 |
Community v. non-community assault among adults in Khayelitsha: A case count and comparison of injury severity | |
Sheron Forgus, Wim Delva, Christine Hauptfleisch, Srinivasan Govender, Julia Blitz | 299-301 |
Self-induction of abortion among women accessing second-trimester abortion services in the public sector, Western Cape Province, South Africa: An exploratory study | |
Deborah Constant, Daniel Grossman, Naomi Lince, Jane Harries | 302-305 |
Hepatitis B and HIV co-infection in pregnant women: Indication for routine antenatal hepatitis B virus screening in a high HIV prevalence setting | |
Natasha V Thumbiran, Dhayendre Moodley, Raveen Parboosing, Pravi Moodley | 307-309 |
Continuing Medical Education
Transition from child- to adult-orientated care for children with long-term health conditions: A process, not an event | |
Anthony Westwood, Nelleke Langerak, Graham Fieggen | 310-313 |
The orthopaedic management of myelomeningocele | |
Anria Horn, Stewart Dix-Peek, Stewart Mears, Eduard Hoffman | 314 |
Hydrocephalus in spina bifida | |
Tiago Morgado, Anthony Figaji | 315 |
Occult spinal dysraphism | |
Ncedele Mankahla, Anthony Figaji | 316 |
Beyond the operating theatre: Long-term quality of life in spina bifida | |
Z Toefy | 317 |
The International Federation for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus: Priorities in developing countries | |
Lieven Bauwens | 318 |
CPD
CPD Questionnaire | |