Vol 94, No 10 (2004)

Table of Contents

News PDF
Fred N Sanders 814
Practice Management: Marketing your medical practice - part IV PDF
Foundation for Professional Development 818

From the Editor

A window into the origin of the South African medical profession PDF
Daniel J Ncayiyana 788

Editor's choice

Editor's choice PDF
J P van Niekerk 789

Correspondence

HIV-infected infants born to women who tested HIV-negative during pregnancy PDF
James Nuttall, Brian Eley, Simone Honikman 794
Dispensing - ironies and conflicts PDF
C J Brand 794
The efficacy-effectiveness gap in PMTCT PDF
Wim Delva, Marleen Temmerman 796
Louis Leipoldt PDF
Robert M Kaplan 796
Psychoneuroimmumology - mind-brain-immune interactions PDF
Trevor Modlin 797
What Islam does not need is a pope! PDF
S A S Haffejee 798

Izindaba

Rendering unto Caesar? PDF
  800
HIV training of traditional healers limps along PDF
  804
Kopanong in a spin over TOP PDF
  808
Time will judge 'scary' dispensing regulations PDF
  809
SAMJ 100 years ago/ SAMJ 50 years ago PDF
  812

Obituaries

Marius Zandvoort PDF
Elmarie Malek 830

Book reviews

Neuroscience of Psychoactive Substance Use and Dependence PDF
Lize Weich 829
Principles of Medicine in Africa PDF
B L F 829

Forum

Health care discrimination against the mentally ill - a comparison of private health insurance benefits for major depressive disorder and ischaemic heart disease in South Africa PDF
Piet Oosthuizen, Olge Scholtz, Charmaine Hugo, Belinda Richards, Robin Emsley 821
A highly desired increase in 'healthy' longevity - what are the prospects? PDF
A R P Walker, B F Walker 824
Severe high spinal cord injury PDF
John R Ouma 828

Scientific letters

Asthma management in practice PDF
Sherwin Kathawaroo, Graham Hukins 832
A phossphodiesterase inhibitor promotes the premature development of adverse cardiac remodelling mediated by beta-adrenergic activation in hypertension PDF
D Badenhorst, C Anamourlis, M Gibbs, M Maseko, O Osadchii, A J Woodiwiss, G R Norton 833

Original articles

Perceptions of childhood immunisations in rural Transkei - a qualitative study PDF
Cecil G Helman, Parimalarani Yogeswaran 835
Oxytocin use in South Africa - a review PDF
E Basson, H J Odendaal, D Grove 839
HIV/AIDS prevalence among South African health workers PDF
O Shisana, E J Hall, R Maluleke, J Chauveau, C Schwabe 846
Serum procalcitonin as an early marker of neonatal sepsis PDF
Daynia E Ballot, Olga Perovic, Jacky Galpin, Peter A Cooper 851

Abstracts

Position Statement: Appropriate Use of the Carbapenems PDF
  855-862