It is therefore very important to optimise the care of diabetic patients at primary, secondary and tertiary care level. Numerous clinical practice guidelines for management of diabetes have been compiled and circulated to health care workers, but despite this the level of diabetes care is still not ideal because of suboptimal implementation strategies. Guideline implementation problems are a si...

782 It is estimated that half or more of sexually transmitted infection (STI) care episodes in the South African formal health sector are treated by private general practitioners (GPs). Poorquality STI care has been well documented in this setting and has been the subject of some debate and policy responses. In the Department of Health’s HIV/AIDS and STD Strategic Plan for 2000 2005, the first ...

October 2005, Vol. 95, No. 10 SAMJ Great strides were made during the last century in the management of diabetes in pregnancy. Before the discovery of insulin in 1921 the outlook for the diabetic mother and her fetus was abysmal. With the advent of insulin, an emphasis on a team approach to care, improved methods of fetal surveillance, and a focus on metabolic normalisation brought about by int...

D ihydroflavonol 4-reductase from Petunia flowers ca ta ­ lyzes the reduction of d ihydroquercetin to leucocyanidin and , in particular, of dihydrom yricetin to leucodelphinid in , w hereas reduction of the simple dihydroflavonol dihydrokaem pferol to leucopelargonidin could not be observed. This special substra te specificity o f d ihydroflavonol 4-re­ ductase is most p robably the reason for ...

Great strides were made during the last century in the management of diabetes in pregnancy. Before the discovery of insulin in 1921 the outlook for the diabetic mother and her fetus was abysmal. With the advent of insulin, an emphasis on a team approach to care, improved methods of fetal surveillance, and a focus on metabolic normalisation brought about by intensive insulin regimens and home gl...

November 2005, Vol. 95, No. 11 SAMJ Uncertainty as to the cause or causes of sudden and unexpected infant death and difficulty in excluding the possibility of infanticide, even after the performance of a ‘complete’ autopsy, was graphically illustrated in the London courts recently. A mother wrongly convicted of killing her two sons had her conviction quashed, and the eminent paediatrician who h...

sunburn damage is a physiological disorder, which reducing pomegranate fruits quality and result to huge loss to the gardeners yearly. in this study, the effects of kaolin on maintaining fruit quality and decreasing sunburn damage of malas-e-torsh-e-saveh pomegranate was investigated. processed kaolin (surround® wp) with 0, 2.5, 5 and 10 % (w/v) was sprayed over the whole canopy and fruits at 4...

Two anthocyanins, cyanidin-3-alpha-O-rhamnoside (C3R) and pelargonidin-3-alpha-O-rhamnoside (P3R), and quercitrin (quercetin-3-alpha-O-rhamnoside), were isolated from acerola (Malpighia emarginata DC.) fruit. These polyphenols were evaluated based on the functional properties associated with diabetes mellitus or its complications, that is, on the radical scavenging activity and the inhibitory e...