General medicine discipline for specialist physicians.
Subdisciplines exist e.g. Gastroenterology, Pulmonology,
Nephrology, Rheumatology and Endocrinology.
We report here on the process and findings of a research prioritisation exercise for universal health coverage (UHC) in South Africa,
conducted during the course of 2019. As plans to roll out National Health Insurance ...
BACKGROUND : The association between human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer is well established, and cervical cancer can be prevented through HPV vaccination. Little has been reported on the association between HPV ...
We report here on the process and findings of a research prioritisation exercise for universal health coverage (UHC) in South Africa,
conducted during the course of 2019. As plans to roll out National Health Insurance ...
BACKGROUND : HIV infection causes immune dysregulation affecting T-cell and monocyte
function, which may alter coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pathophysiology.
OBJECTIVES : We investigated the associations among ...
Munsami, Lyneshree; Schutte, Clara-Maria; De Villiers, Maryke; Hiesgen, Juliane(AOSIS, 2023-01-19)
BACKGROUND : The neuropsychiatric side effects of efavirenz occur mainly early during treatment
and are usually mild. A lesser-known and serious complication is late-onset efavirenz toxicity
causing ataxia and encephalopathy. ...
BACKGROUND : By October 2022, vaccination rates with at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine were low among adolescent girls aged 12–17 (38%) and young women aged 18–34 (45%) in South Africa. This study aimed to measure ...
Bosenberg, L.H.; Thomas, P.(In House Publications, 2022)
Cavernous transformation of the portal vein is a complication of a prior portal vein thrombosis and carries a very poor
prognosis. It is associated with portal hypertension, and the massive ascites that develops as a ...
Theron, Annette J.; Anderson, Ronald; Madzime, Morris; Rossouw, Theresa M.; Steel, Helen C.; Meyer, Pieter Willem Adriaan; Cholo, Moloko C.; Kwofie, Luyanda Laura Illicia; Feldman, Charles; Tintinger, Gregory(MDPI, 2022-12-19)
There is increasing awareness of an association between the uptake of the HIV integrase inhibitor,
dolutegravir, in first-line antiretroviral regimens with unusual weight gain and development
of the metabolic syndrome, ...
Stroke is a common and devastating event and the majority of cases are caused by thromboembolism from the left atrium, left ventricle or left sided valves. This case report describes a case of embolic stroke with the origin ...
AIMS :
To compare insulin dose adjustments made by physicians to those made by an artificial intelligence-based decision support system, the Advisor Pro, in people with type 1 diabetes (T1D) using an insulin pump and ...
Abdullah, Fareed; Myers, J.; Basu, Debashis; Tintinger, Gregory; Ueckermann, Veronica; Mathebula, M.; Ramlall, R.; Spoor, S.; De Villiers, T.; Van der Walt, Z.; Cloete, Jeane; Soma-Pillay, Priya; Rheeder, Paul; Paruk, Fathima; Engelbrecht, Adel; Lalloo, Vidya; Myburg, M.; Kistan, J.; Van Hougenhouck-Tulleken, W.G. (Wesley); Boswell, Michael T.; Gray, G.; Welch, R.; Blumberg, Lucille Hellen; Jassat, W.(Elsevier, 2022-03)
INTRODUCTION : The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) first reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019 is a global pandemic that is threatening the health and wellbeing of people worldwide. To date there have been more ...
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants of concern (VOCs) exhibit escape
from neutralizing antibodies, causing concern about vaccine effectiveness. However, while non-neutralizing
cytotoxic ...
The Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) Ad26.COV2.S non-replicating viral vector vaccine has been widely
deployed for COVID-19 vaccination programs in resource-limited settings. Here we confirm that neutralizing
and binding ...
BACKGROUND : We aimed to develop and validate a tool to identify which pregnant/lactating young South African
women (≤ 24 years) are at risk of HIV infection.
METHODS : Data from three national South African Prevention ...
Worsley, Catherine M.; Van der Mescht, Mieke Adri; Hoffmann, Daniel; Meyer, Pieter Willem Adriaan; Ueckermann, Veronica; Rossouw, Theresa M.(Elsevier, 2022-09)
Behçet’s disease is a rare, systemic variable vessel vasculitis mostly seen in patients from
the Middle East, Northern Africa and Central Asia. Neuro-Behçet disease (NBD) is often diagnosed in patients with known Behçet’s ...
Adam, Sumaiya; Pheiffer, Carmen; Dias, Stephanie; Hlongwane, T.M.A.G. (Tsakane); Vannevel, Valerie; Soma-Pillay, Priya; Abdullah, Fareed(Frontiers Media SA, 2022-07-13)
Despite many advances in medicine we are still faced with emerging pathogens.
Pregnant women have been disproportionately affected by previous coronavirus
outbreaks. The COVID-19 pandemic has not affected pregnant women ...