Objective. To assess the effect of renal transplantation on the nutritional status of patients. Design. Prospective descriptive study. Setting. Renal Transplant Clinic at Tygerberg Hospital, Western Cape. Subjects. Fifty-eight ...

A tobacco-free hospital environment sends an important signal to patients and visitors with regard to both safety and a healthy lifestyle. Today patients, staff and visitors increasingly expect an antismoking policy to be ...

INTRODUCTION: The primary objective was to determine whether acidified formulae (pH 3.5 and 4.5) decreased gastric and tracheal colonisation, as well as microbial contamination of the enteral feeding delivery system, ...

On the flight from Accra to Johannesburg a fellow passenger collapsed in the aisle as he passed my seat. It was about 2 hours into the flight, which had left Accra just before midnight, with the aircraft about two-thirds full.

To the Editor: The UN has released a mid-term report on progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), eight pro-poor goals contained in the Millennium Declaration of 2000, to be achieved by 2015. ...

Background: Rifampin is a key drug in antituberculosis chemotherapy because it rapidly kills the majority of bacilli in tuberculosis lesions, prevents relapse and thus enables 6-month short-course chemotherapy. Little is ...