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- ItemA reflection on achievements and opportunities for Southern Foresters in 2011, the International Year of Forests(2011) du Toit B.[No abstract available]
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- ItemAdvances in the pollination biology of South African plants(2009) Johnson S.D.; Manning J.C.; Pauw A.[No abstract available]
- ItemAlcohol and non-communicable diseases (NCDs): Time for a serious international public health effort(2011) Room R.; Rehm J.; Parry C.[No abstract available]
- ItemAntidepressants and suicide in children and adolescents: A storm in a teacup?(2004) Seedat S.So have the regulatory authorities overstated the risks and underestimated the benefits of antidepressants in the treatment of depression in youth? Considering that existing data from clinical trials on suicidality appear contradictory and incomplete, more careful scrutiny of the risks and benefits is clearly needed. Better data and a cleaner, more systematic approach toward adverse event data reporting may be able to answer the question at hand. Risk benefit analyses in paediatric trials may be more complicated because of high placebo response rates which make it difficult to show statistically and clinically significant drug-placebo differences. For example, in two recent randomised controlled trials of sertraline in children and adolescents (aged 6 - 17) with DSM-IV defined major depressive disorder, undertaken at the request of the FDA, 69% of those who were taking sertraline were classified as responders compared with 59% of patients taking placebo. While these differences were statistically significant, the mean change in scores from baseline to endpoint on the primary outcome measure, the Children's Depression Rating Scale-Revised, between the groups was so small so as to be of minimal clinical significance. In addition to high placebo response rates, other problems include non-publication of negative findings, withholding of unfavourable data and under-reporting of adverse events. For now, monitoring child, adolescent, and adult patients closely for suicidal ideation during the first weeks of antidepressant therapy and during dose titrations of their medication should always be part of the armamentarium and standard of care of any good clinician.
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- ItemChildhood tuberculosis mainstreamed into National Tuberculosis Programs(2006) Gie R.P.[No abstract available]
- ItemChildren dying from pneumonia: Are we doing enough?(2006) Gie R.P.; Enarson P.M.[No abstract available]
- ItemClinical trials in psychiatry: Obtaining the evidence(2004) Emsley R.; Hawkridge S.[No abstract available]
- ItemCompulsory community service for dietitians - Monitoring and mentoring(2006) Gericke G.J.; Labadarios D.[No abstract available]
- ItemConsultation liaison psychiatry in Africa - essential service or unaffordable luxury?(2011) Vythilingum B.; Chiliza B.[No abstract available]
- ItemCurrent Opinion in Neurology: Editorial introductions(2010) Frackowiak, R.; Mazziotta, J.; Michel, P.; Acheson, J.[No abstract available]
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- ItemEditorial(2011) Green S.
- ItemEditorial(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 1997) Van Der Waag, Ian J.Militaria has indeed seen many changes since the first issue appeared in 1969. Since then, it has been a mainstay in the debate on matters relating to South African military affairs. Oscillating between a military-history and a multi-disciplinary content, Militaria has over the past 28 years, seen 105 issues and has contained some 520 multifarious articles. Despite immediate popularity in military and civilian circles (circulation increased by 50 percent in 1971 and has since been maintained at around 3000), Militaria became a quarterly and then a biannual journal, instead of appearing once every second month. This was caused by a number of related forces, not the least being financial stringency and the changing needs of the then South African Defence Force.
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