Vol 105, No 1 (2015)

Table of Contents

Cover

Cover PDF
 

Contents

Contents PDF
  1-2

Guest Editorial

The humanistic side of medical education PDF
Solomon Benatar 3

Editor's choice

Editor's Choice PDF
Janet Seggie 4

Correspondence

Injury severity in relation to seatbelt use PDF
Fikri M Abu-Zidan 5
Driving innovation, leadership and change at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa PDF
Bhavna Patel 5-6

Izindaba

Mental health under-budgeting undermining SA’s economy PDF
  7-8
Turning ‘fate’ into destiny by seizing a second chance at life PDF
  8-9
Basson unrepentant as drawn-out sentencing argument begins PDF
  9-10
SA’s ailing public health sector ‘responding to treatment’? PDF
  11-13
Litigation benefits state-delivered medicine – but for how long? PDF
  13-14

Book reviews

Troubled Children – Poems of Contemplation. By Joan Westaway and Mick Leary. Alloa, Scotland: Diadem Books, 2014. ISBN 978-1-291-95246-9 PDF
Dawn Garisch 15
The Primary Health Care Approach and Restructuring of the MB ChB: A Case Study of the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town. By Nadia Hartman. Lambert Academic Publishing, 2014. ISBN: 978-3-8484-4941-5. info@lap-publishing.com PDF
Janet Seggie 15-16
The AIDS Conspiracy: Science Fights Back. By Nicoli Natrass. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2012. ISBN 9781868145621 PDF
J P de V van Niekerk 16

Forum

Listerial brainstem encephalitis – treatable, but easily missed PDF
Pearl Fredericks, Marcell Britz, Roland Eastman, Jonathan Ambrose Carr, Kathleen Jane Bateman 17-20
The research component of specialist registration – a question of alligators and swamps? A personal view PDF
Colleen Michelle Aldous, Miriam Adhikari, Christopher Charles Rout 21-22
No evidence for clinical utility in investigating the connexin genes GJB2, GJB6 and GJA1 in non-syndromic hearing loss in black Africans PDF
Ambroise Wonkam, Jason Bosch, Jean Jacques N Noubiap, Kamogelo Lebeko, Nomlindo Makubalo, Collet Dandara 23-26
Medical certification of death in South Africa – moving forward PDF
Elsie Helena Burger, Pam Groenewald, Anastasia Rossouw, Debbie Bradshaw 27-30

Editorial

Turning up the volume on hearing loss in South Africa PDF
Shazia Peer 31-32
Cervical cancer prevention in South Africa: HPV vaccination and screening both essential to achieve and maintain a reduction in incidence PDF
M H Botha, K L Richter 33-34
Sources of articles published in SAMJ/CME during 2014
Janet Seggie

Research

Hearing loss in the developing world: Evaluating the iPhone mobile device as a screening tool PDF
Shazia Peer, Johannes J Fagan 35-39
The Vaccine and Cervical Cancer Screen (VACCS) project: Acceptance of human papillomavirus vaccination in a school-based programme in two provinces of South Africa PDF
Matthys H Botha, Frederick Haynes van der Merwe, Leon C Snyman, Greta Dreyer 40-43
High concentrations of natural rubber latex allergens in gloves used by laboratory health personnel in South Africa PDF
Muofhe Edith Ratshikhopha, Tanusha Soogreem Singh, David Jones, Mohamed Fareed Jeebhay, Andreas L Lopata 43-46
Severe blunt thoracic trauma: Differences between adults and children in a level 1 trauma centre PDF
David Lee Skinner, Daan den Hollander, Grant L Laing, Reitze N Rodseth, David J J Muckart 47-51
Mapping South African public health research (1975 - 2014) PDF
Brice Poreau 52-55
Regulation of HIV receptor expression in cervical epithelial cells by Gram-negative bacterial lipopolysaccharide PDF
Kurt J Sales, Timothy Klein, Arieh A Katz 56-61

Continuing Medical Education

South African food allergy consensus document 2014 PDF
M E Levin, C L Gray, E Goddard, S Karabus, M Kriel, A C Lang, A I Manjra, S M Risenga, A J Terblanche, D A van der Spuy 62-65
Non-IgE-mediated food allergies PDF
A J Terblanche, A C Lang, C L Gray, E Goddard, S Karabus, M Kriel, A I Manjra, S M Risenga, D A van der Spuy, M E Levin 66
Exclusion diets and challenges in the diagnosis of food allergy PDF
A C Lang, A I Manjra, A J Terblanche, S M Risenga, C L Gray, E Goddard, S Karabus, M Kriel, D A van der Spuy, M E Levin 67-68
Epidemiology of IgE-mediated food allergy PDF
C L Gray, E Goddard, S Karabus, M Kriel, A C Lang, A I Manjra, S M Risenga, A J Terblanche, D A van der Spuy, M E Levin 68-69
Diagnosis of food allergy: History, examination and in vivo and in vitro tests PDF
D A van der Spuy, A J Terblanche, S Karabus, M Kriel, A I Manjra, E Goddard, C L Gray, A C Lang, S M Risenga, M E Levin 69-70
Elimination diets and dietary interventions for the management of food allergies Elimination diets and dietary interventions for the management of food allergies PDF
A C Lang, D A van der Spuy, E Goddard, A J Terblanche, M Kriel, C L Gray, S Karabus, A I Manjra, S M Risenga, M E Levin 71-72
Severe food allergy and anaphylaxis: Treatment, risk assessment and risk reduction PDF
S M Risenga, M Kriel, S Karabus, A I Manjra, C L Gray, E Goddard, A C Lang, A J Terblanche, D A van der Spuy, M E Levin 72-73
Vaccination in food allergic patients PDF
S Karabus, C L Gray, E Goddard, M Kriel, A C Lang, A I Manjra, S M Risenga, A J Terblanche, D A van der Spuy, M E Levin 73
Novel therapies in the management of food allergy: Oral immunotherapy and anti-IgE PDF
C L Gray, E Goddard, S Karabus, M Kriel, A C Lang, A I Manjra, S M Risenga, A J Terblanche, D A van der Spuy, M E Levin 74
South African Food Allergy Working Group (SAFAWG) authors of the South African food allergy consensus document 2014 PDF
M E Levin, C L Gray, E Goddard, S Karabus, M Kriel, A C Lang, A I Manjra, S M Risenga, A J Terblanche, D A van der Spuy

CPD

CPD questionnaire PDF