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- 1From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 97, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedIn line with the international expansion strategy of Ranbaxy Laboratories, the approval from South Africa's Competition Commission has solidified the acquisition of Be-Tabs Pharmaceuticals (Pty) Limited (Be-Tabs) by...
- 2From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 97, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedGlobal warming tops the list of the present hotly debated global topics. Another man-made disaster, which has been lurking under the radar as far as the public is concerned, is antibiotic resistance. Think of the...
- 3From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 97, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedRadiographic Anatomy and Interpretation of the Chest and Pulmonary System. WHO. Pp. v + 146. Illustrated. CHF40/US$36. WHO. 2006. ISBN 92 4 154677 8. In even the most technically advanced radiology departments, it is...
- 4From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 97, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: Violence, previously considered a social issue, is now an acknowledged public health problem. It is defined as the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against another person,...
- 5From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 97, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedBetween 1948 and 1954 increasing government intimidation along with an accompanying intensification of protest politics resulted in older, moderate medical leaders withdrawing from the political frontline. Younger...
- 6From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 97, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA 39-year-old woman presented to a day hospital with a midline neck mass that had been evident for 3-4 years. Clinically the patient was euthyroid. Ultrasound showed a solid midline neck mass. Fine-needle aspiration...
- 7From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 97, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe medical profession has not been blameless in fudging issues around the HIV/AIDS pandemic. We have given in to the conspiracy of silence, denial and stigma by our responses in endowing it with a status quite different...
- 8From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 97, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: What do we as society do to combat the threat of trauma, crime and violence? Approximately half our population are children, the most vulnerable members of society. Physical, emotional and sexual abuse...
- 9From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 97, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: The population of the Free State is 2.7 million, with more than 2.3 million people having a home language other than English or Afrikaans. (1) The tuition languages at most South African medical schools...
- 10From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 97, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedA void exists between business and labour around any negotiated strategy to combat HIV/AIDS, with small and medium-sized businesses the least proactive and COSATU 'routinely' ignoring written invitations from big...
- 11From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 97, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedWorldwide, food contamination (intentional or unintentional) leading to foodborne diseases is a major public health concern. Over the past 20-30 years there has been a major change in the epidemiology of foodborne...
- 12From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 97, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: The insurance industry has used the third-generation ELISA protocol as a screening test for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection over the last number of years. In order to utilise new technology...
- 13From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 97, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedObjectives. To estimate the burden of disease attributable to unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene (WSH) by age group for South Africa in 2000. Design. World Health Organization comparative risk assessment methodology...
- 14From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 97, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedOver the past 20 years, there has been a substantial increase in the numbers of people with diabetes. It is one of the most costly and burdensome chronic diseases of our time. The disease is one of the leading causes of...
- 15From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 97, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedBackground. Traditional male circumcision is still widely practised in the Xhosa population throughout South Africa. It is a rite of passage from boyhood to manhood. Unfortunately, botched circumcisions are a public...
- 16From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 97, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOnly 78 foreign-qualified nurses were registered to practise in South Africa last year, mainly because of poor compliance with application requirements and an inability by war-torn/ dysfunctional African governments to...
- 17From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 97, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA set of standards to assist provincial authorities to bring emergency medical services (EMS) in line with international standards in time for the World Soccer Cup in 2010 is being developed and piloted in the Free...
- 18From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 97, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedThe authors investigated the utility of both a non-treponemal (RPR) test and a treponemal (FTA-ABS) test for the diagnosis of primary syphilis during the emergence of the HIV epidemic in southern Africa. The serological...
- 19From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 97, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedThe global burden of paediatric tuberculosis (TB) has been underappreciated. Control programmes, focused on adult infectious cases, have largely based case detection and reporting on sputum smear results. (1) However,...
- 20From: SAMJ South African Medical Journal. (Vol. 97, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThere is currently a high level of interest in avian flu, both the epidemic in birds and in the relatively small number of human cases around the world. Media coverage is high, the public are concerned and governments...