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- 1From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedAn editorial [9] and three papers' [10-12] offer insight into the practice of otorhinolaryngology in this country. Much in the news lately, and featured in the May SAMJ in the context of cancer of the cervix, oncogenic...
- 2From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBackground. Postprandial glucose excursions contribute significantly to average blood glucose, glycaemic variability and cardiovascular risk. Carbohydrate counting is a method of insulin dosing that balances...
- 3From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: Medical records may be considered to be any information and documents kept in a systematic, scientific and easy way that help clinicians retrieve the required data on a patient at the time it is needed....
- 4From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBackground. Intellectual disability (ID) is a relatively high-incidence disability, with an increased risk of poor physical and mental health. Persons with ID also have lifelong support needs that must be met if they...
- 5From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedOp Oujaarsnamidddag 2012, sterf Frans skielik aan 'n ruptuurde aorta aneurisme, en ontstaan daar 'n groot leemte in sy gesin en in dermatologiese kringe in Namibia waar hy die enigste voltydse dermatoloog was. Frans...
- 6From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: We wish to respond to the letter. [1] commenting on our article 'Diagnosing Xpert MTB/RIF-negative TB: Impact and cost of alternative algorithms for South Africa'. [2] The National TB Cost Model was...
- 7From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedDoctors today have to practise medicine in an increasingly hostile, pressurised and uncertain healthcare environment. The cost of clinical negligence continues to rise in South Africa (SA) with increases in both the...
- 8From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBackground. Chronic otorrhoea is difficult to treat, with treatment in South Africa (SA) being protocol driven and generally initiated at the primary healthcare level. There is a lack of local studies that focus on the...
- 9From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: South Africa has an unacceptably high rate of interpersonal violence. [1] Recent well-publicised incidents have prompted South Africans to re-examine the massive problem of violence against women in the...
- 10From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction. The need for more cost-effective insulin therapy is critical in reducing the burden on patients and health systems. Biosimilar insulins have the potential to dramatically lower healthcare costs by...
- 11From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBackground and objectives. The purpose of this report is to describe the changing trends in adolescent treatment admissions for methamphetamine in Cape Town, and to discuss possible implications. Method. Data were...
- 12From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedBackground. Chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) is a chronic infection of the middle ear cleft. In sub-Saharan Africa > 50% of cases occur in children <10 years of age. Objectives. To describe the otological,...
- 13From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedThe clean-shave haircut known locally as the chiskop is rare among females but popular with black South African men, who are also predisposed to folliculitis keloidalis nuchae (FKN) (keloids on the back of the head)....
- 14From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedGeneralists daily make poor evidence-based decisions because regulatory and ethics committees fail them and drug companies habitually misrepresent products. The pervasiveness of this perversion--at least overseas--is...
- 15From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: In South Africa (SA) it is widely accepted that subspecialties such as gastroenterology (GE) are not functioning adequately, [1] as was highlighted in the SAMJ in 2004. [2] Fewer trainees are able to...
- 16From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedAn editorial [4] from two diabetologists contextualises two papers [5,6] on management of type 1 diabetes. One deals with a group of well-controlled young people who, receiving their care in the private sector, have...
- 17From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedEdward Joseph Stewart (1926-2013) was born in 1926 in Swaziland. He travelled to Cape Town for further education, first at Zonnebloem College, then Trafalgar High School. He graduated MB ChB at UCT in 1951, the first...
- 18From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: We read with interest David McQuoid-Mason's article. [1] concerning the legality of circumcision in South Africa in terms of the Constitution and the Children's Act. Unfortunately, his statement that...
- 19From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedRecent increases in pathology costs per scheme member are a concern to medical schemes and pathologists alike. To better understand the observed increasing costs, the National Pathology Group commissioned Prognosys to...
- 20From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 103, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedEvidence-based medicine has been defined as 'The conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.' There are two major assumptions in this...