Table of Contents
Editorials
| Optimising Asthma Care | |
| Elvis Irusen | 3 |
Letters to the editor
| Observations as a doctor in a TB hospital | |
| Sigrid Antonie Schulz | 4 |
Forum
| The dissemination and implementation of national asthma guidelines in South Africa: The use of outcome mapping | |
| Bob Mash, G Ainslie, Elvis Irusen, A Bheekie | 5 |
InfoPOEMs
| Thromboprophylaxis; Diagnosis of VTE (venous thromboembolic events); Managing VTE; Antioxidants | |
| Various Authors | 10-11 |
Original Research
| Good short-term outcome of kangaroo mother care in low birth weight infants in a rural South African hospital | |
| AN Rodriguez, M Nel, H Dippenaar, EAM Prinsloo | 15 |
Scientific letters
| Perspectives on Multi Professional Education (MPE) in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Free State | |
| S van Vuuren, M Nel | 17 |
CPD
| Guidelines for the management of chronic asthma in adolescents and adults | Untitled |
| Working Group SA Thoracic Society | 19 |
| Reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease in older women | |
| Mike Davey | 32 |
| Severe asthma and acute attacks: diagnosis and management in adults and children | |
| S Kling | 36 |
| CPD Questionnaire | |
| Editorial Office | 41 |
Case studies
| Pheochromocytomas/Paragangliomas and two cases | |
| W Van Vuuren, NE Nyakale, FSJ Naude, BJ Meyer, MM Sathekge | 42 |
Review Articles
| Lung Abscess | |
| C Koegelenberg | 50 |
Press Releases
| 2008 Congress Announcement | |
| Editorial Office | 46 |
Book Reviews
| The Descent of Madness: Evolutionary Origins of Psychosis and the Social Brain. By Jonathan Burns | |
| Bonga Chiliza | 46 |
Regulars
| Conferance Report: Talking rural in Beaufort-West | |
| Editorial Office | 54 |
| Talking Rural in Beaufort West! 12-13 October 2006 | |
| Helmuth Reuter |
SA Fam Pract | ISSN: 1726-426X
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