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- 1From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedProfessor John Cosnett (1925-2012) began his medical career as a student at the University of the Witwatersrand. His registrar training in medicine was at the University of Natal; he then moved to Edendale Hospital in...
- 2From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedObjective. To evaluate the efficacy of an adapted Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) tool at a children's hospital. Design. A two-armed descriptive study. Setting. Red Cross War Memorial Children's...
- 3From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAcute asthma attacks (asthma exacerbations) are increasing episodes of shortness of breath, cough, wheezing or chest tightness associated with a decrease in airflow that can be quantified and monitored by measurement of...
- 4From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedPrivate GPs in the Western Cape claim they've been side-lined by the provincial health authority in a major new pharmacy-chain-friendly public sector drive to increase the region's overall family planning and infant...
- 5From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe principles for developing National Health Insurance (NHI) as described in the Green Paper are to improve access to quality healthcare services for the whole population and to provide financial risk protection...
- 6From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedRethinking Aging: Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society By Nortin M Hadler. Cape Town: UCT Press. 2011. ISBN 978-1-92049-996-9. Defensive (and aggressive) medicine has led to the USA leading the...
- 7From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment (ETAT) package was developed by the World Health Organization to address the problem of poor triage and emergency care of children in the developing world. It was...
- 8From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground and objectives. The aim of this study is to report the incidence of Clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD) in a tertiarycare hospital in South Africa and to identify risk factors, assess patient...
- 9From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedEd Immelman's (1938-2013) education and professional training were marked by success and awards. Matriculating from Rondebosch Boys High School at 16, he studied medicine at the University of Cape Town, where he was...
- 10From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAsthma is the commonest chronic disease in children and also affects millions of adults throughout the world, with approximately 1 in 7 of the world's population affected. Data from the International Study of Asthma and...
- 11From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: The Breast Interest Group of Southern Africa would like to respond to a recent article in the SAMJ1] regarding the activities of PinkDrive in the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. Members of the group who...
- 12From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe Camino de Santiago de Compostela is a 1 200-year-old pilgrimage mainly through Spain, culminating at the burial place of the remains of James the Apostle, Sant Iago. It is also a World Heritage site, because the...
- 13From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground. The concurrent TB and HIV epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa place all healthcare workers (HCWs) at increased risk of exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Aim. This study explores personal experiences,...
- 14From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and syphilis remain major infections around the world. In Angola, about 166 000 individuals are living with HIV,...
- 15From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSouth Africa has a 'quadruple burden of disease'. One way to reduce this burden, and address the social determinants of health and social inequity, could be through health promotion interventions driven by an...
- 16From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: We write in response to the Editor's comment in CME [1] expressing frustration with delays during the online registration process for the Two Oceans Half-Marathon. Dr Farham attributed this to completion...
- 17From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe proposal for national health insurance (NHI) is part of a welcome resurgence in public discourse about poverty, health and access to health services in South Africa. Despite certain areas of progress in the country...
- 18From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe 103-year-old McCord Hospital in Durban, globally famous for its training and affordable high-quality healthcare, has succumbed to an external funding crisis that will almost certainly turn it into a State health...
- 19From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground. Acute asthma exacerbations remain a common cause of hospitalisation and healthcare utilisation in South African children. Aim. To update the South African paediatric acute asthma guidelines according to...
- 20From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground. South Africa has no policy to prevent malaria in pregnancy, despite the adverse effects of the disease in pregnancy. However, malaria control measures consisting of indoor residual spraying and specific...