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The safety profile of Vilazodone: a study on post-marketing surveillance.
(2020)Vilazodone was approved in 2011 as an antidepressant to treat major depressive disorder. Like other antidepressants, vilazodone has adverse effects associated with the use of the drug. Being a relatively new drug, it is ... -
Salivary biomarkers of mucosal immunity and sympathetic activation in children : effects of body composition, cardio-respiratory fitness and exercise.
(2012)Worldwide, overweight/obesity and associated chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, have reached epidemic proportions. Statistics show that overweight/obesity and chronic disease is prevalent amongst adults and children ... -
Salivary gland tumours in the era of antiretroviral treatment.
(2018)HIV is a global pandemic with an estimated 36.7 million people infected worldwide with HIV in 2015. Sub Saharan Africa remains the region most heavily affected with South Africa being home to the world’s largest ... -
Sanitation, water, and hygiene in Ethekwini Municipality, Durban, South Africa : a baseline cross-sectional study.
(2007)Introduction: Inadequate water supply and sanitation adversely affects the health and socio-economic development of communities. Since 2003, more than 40 000 households in peri-urban and rural ... -
Schirmer tear test 2 and tear break-up time values in a South African young black adult population.
(2012)Aim: The aim of this study was to establish normal values for Schirmer tear test (version 2) and tear break up time (TBUT) in a South African young adult Black population. Method: Following ethical approval by the biomedical ... -
The scope and spectrum of challenges presented to the general surgeon by patients affected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) : a review.
(2012)Background: Surgical disease related to HIV is scantily documented with a paucity of data detailing the manifestations of HIV in surgery especially in resource-poor, high prevalence settings such as in South Africa. This ... -
Screening for and diagnosing dementia in an elderly residential home population : a validation study.
(2014)Background: With the projected increase in the elderly population and expected rise in the prevalence of dementia, particularly in low-and-middle-income countries, early case identification is necessary for planning ... -
Sequence analysis of an HIV-1 subtype C acutely infected cohort from Durban, South Africa.
(2018)The Human Immunodeficiency Virus is a global public health concern. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS estimated that 36.9 million people were infected with HIV globally at the end of 2017. Almost 20% of these ... -
Seroprevalence and viral quantification of Kaposi Sarcoma-associated Herpes Virus (KSHV) in a Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infected adult South African cohort.
(2017)Background Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpes virus (KSHV), also known as human herpes virus 8 (HHV8), is aetiologically implicated in Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS). Although HIV associated KS has increased in incidence and is a ... -
Severe acute malnutrition and antiretroviral treatment in children with HIV.
(2016)Background: Childhood malnutrition remains a common problem in many parts of the world and is a contributing factor in 45% of the 5.9 million annual deaths in children under 5 years. HIV-infected children have a ... -
Sex differences in the Kinetics of immune reconstitution under antiretroviral therapy.
(2017)The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) remains a global health threat and is increasingly becoming a female epidemic due to gender inequalities. The introduction of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has greatly increased ... -
Sexual practices of married women in rural KwaZulu-Natal : implications for the women's vulnerability to HIV/AIDS epidemic.
(2009)Purpose: To explore sexual practices of married women, which make them vulnerable to HIV infection in a rural setting, and the implications such practices have for the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Methodology: An ethnographic approach ... -
Short term outcomes of an HIV and AIDS medical education partnership initiative (MEPI) clinical programme for nursing students in a selected site : a descriptive evaluation study.
(2015)Background HIV/AIDS education and training in nursing generally has been inadequate and has not been formalised. As a result, it places nurses in a challenging situation when they have to nurse HIV/AIDS infected individuals ... -
The short-term effects of a sports stacking intervention on the cognitive and perceptual motor functioning in geriatrics.
(2016)Introduction: Sport stacking has been shown to improve cognitive and motor functioning, such as reaction time and hand eye coordination, through studies conducted on children in grades two and three but limited research ... -
Silver nanoparticles of Albizia adianthifolia : the induction of apoptosis in a human lung carcinoma cell line.
(2012)Silver nanoparticles (AgNP), the most popular nano-compounds, possess unique chemical, physical and biological properties. Albizia adianthifolia (AA) – rich in saponins – is a plant of the Fabaceae family, found abundantly ... -
Simultaneous three or four horizontal rectus muscle surgery versus two-staged surgery for large angle congenital esotropia in children : a randomized controlled trial.
(2017)Large angle congenital esotropia is commonly seen in South Africa. The optimal surgical approach for angles larger than 50 prism dioptres (PD) esotropia is controversial. Conventional bilateral medial rectus muscle recessions ... -
A situation analysis of the PMTCT programme between 2013 and 2014 in the eThekwini Municipality.
(2015)Background The contribution of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic to morbidity and mortality in pregnancy has been well documented. Effective antiretroviral treatment (ART) improves maternal and newborn health ... -
Size does not matter: a molecular insight into the biological activity of chemical fragments utilizing computational approaches.
(2016)Insight into the functional and physiological state of a drug target is of essential importance in the drug discovery process, with the lack of emerging (3D) drug targets we propose the integration of homology modeling ... -
Skills required by nurses at primary health care level in a district health system.
(2002)The purpose of the study was to do a task analysis.of PHC nurse practice by identifying the skills required by nurses working at the primary health care clinic in order to plan staff development programmes. The objectives ...