Address: Director, Bioethics Centre, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Observatory 7925, Western Cape, South Africa, The Husein Lalji Dewraj Professor of Paediatrics & Child Health, Department of Paediatrics, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, Director, Program on Applied Ethics and Biotechnology, Professor of Public Health Sciences and Surgery, University of Toronto Joi...

Department of Health Statistics and Information Systems, World Health Organization, Switzerland, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability and Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Saving Newborn Lives/Save the Children, Cape Town, South Africa and Maternal Reproductive and Child Health (MARCH) Centre, London School Hygiene and Tropical Medic...

and Professor Murray Leibbrandt from the University of Cape Town. I thank them for their input but take sole responsibility for this paper and any errors it may contain. I would also like to thank TIPS for providing financial support for this research.

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Fishberg Research Center in Neurobiology (S.C.S.), Departments of Neurology (S.C.S.), Physiology and Biophysics (H.W.), and Pharmacology (H. W.), Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029; and Medical Research Council Regulatory Peptides Unit (R.P.M.), Departments of Chemical Pathology (R.P.M.) and Medicine (R.P.M.), University of Cape Town Medical School, Observatory 7925, South...

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Christiaan (Chris) Barnard was born in 1922 and qualified in medicine at the University of Cape Town in 1946. Following surgical training in South Africa and the USA, Barnard established a successful open-heart surgery programme at Groote Schuur Hospital and the University of Cape Town in 1958. In 1967, he led the team that performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant. The articl...

OBJECTIVE To identify the leading causes of mortality and premature mortality in Cape Town, South Africa, and its subdistricts, and to compare levels of mortality between subdistricts. METHODS Cape Town mortality data for the period 2001-2006 were analysed by age, cause of death and sex. Cause-of-death codes were aggregated into three main cause groups: (i) pre-transitional causes (e.g. commu...

The genetic profiles oj the domestic cat populations oj Cape Town and Pretoria have been determined. That jor the Cape Town population satisfies two testsjor panmixia, whereas the Pretoria population meets one oj two such criteria. The relative ajfinities ojeach locality with variolls populations in England, the Netherlands and the New World are discussed with rejerence to the historical im­ mi...