February 13th, 2019Surgery should not be performed in almost all patients with a common cause of shoulder pain known as subacromial pain syndrome or SAPS (also called shoulder impingement or rotator cuff disease), say a panel of international experts. Their strong...
February 13th, 2019'Watchful waiting' rather than removal is suitable for most women diagnosed with non-cancerous ovarian cysts, avoiding potential surgical complications, found a two-year study following 1919 women from 10 countries. “Our results may lead to a...
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) is poised to launch an investigation into possible maladministration and corruption at the Council for Medical...February 13th, 2019
The Gauteng Health Department has denied allegations that senior officials had not taken steps to deal with complaints regarding safety issues at the...February 13th, 2019
According to the 2018 annual census of clinical and radiation oncologists conducted by the South African Society of Clinical and Radiation Oncology,...February 13th, 2019
Chances are, in South Africa, if you’re suffering from a serious mental illness you will struggle to see a psychiatrist. City Press reports that at...February 13th, 2019
Health minister Aaron Motsoaledi has appointed a task team to urgently tackle an invasion of monkeys at Durban's RK Khan Hospital, reports The Times....February 13th, 2019
The Eastern Cape Health Department is placing thousands of jobs on the line by not paying their suppliers on time, with debts in excess of 30 days...February 13th, 2019
Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute is the successful recipient of two awards from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the National...February 13th, 2019
The use of MRI to determine heart function has been slow to catch on, but a study from Duke Health researchers shows that stress cardiac MRI not only...February 13th, 2019
Exercise resulted in greater reduction in visceral adipose tissue (VAT) relative to weight loss than did pharmacological interventions, found a US...February 13th, 2019
A study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows PFAS industrial chemicals, which are used in many consumer products, pass through the...February 13th, 2019
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a new way to prevent and treat chlamydia, the most common sexually transmitted bacterial infection in the world. The new treatment differs from the traditional antibiotic treatment as it is a...February 13th, 2019
Preventing smoking, lowering cholesterol, controlling blood pressure and curing hepatitis C would greatly reduce the burden of heart attacks, non-Aids cancers and end-stage liver disease and kidney disease in people living with HIV, according to an...February 13th, 2019
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV is an antiretroviral pill that is over 90% effective in preventing HIV acquisition when taken as prescribed. A new perspective examines clinicians' concerns and biases toward prescribing PrEP and suggests...February 13th, 2019
Research reveals that 1 in 3 complementary medicine (CM) users do not disclose their use of these medicines to their medical providers, posing significant direct and indirect risks of adverse effects and harm due to unsafe concurrent use of CM and...February 13th, 2019
Adolescent athletes who sustained concussions while playing a sport recovered more quickly when they underwent a supervised, aerobic exercise regimen, a study has found.
The study, by University at Buffalo researchers and colleagues, is the first...February 13th, 2019
Adults who notice that they frequently lose their train of thought or often become side-tracked may in fact be displaying earlier symptoms of cerebral small vessel disease, otherwise known as a "silent stroke," suggests a study. Researchers...February 13th, 2019
An analysis of long-term cardiomyopathy risk in 28,000 childhood cancer survivors in the US and Europe, researchers compared four chemotherapy drugs with development of cardiomyopathy and found exposure to different anthracyclines results in...February 13th, 2019
Only 1 in 20 US adolescents is meeting national recommendations for sleeping, physical activity, and screen time, with only half of as many girls (3%) compared to boys (7%) reaching all three guideline targets.
The research was by The University...February 13th, 2019
The German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) has found, overall, ndication of a considerable added benefit of erenumab, a new drug class for the prophylaxis of migraine to enter the German market in November...February 13th, 2019
Screening for high risk human papillomavirus (HR-HPV) infection works well in practice and is more sensitive than cytology (smear) testing – offering greater protection against cervical cancer, confirm researchers. Their findings therefore support...February 13th, 2019
Men who have smoked marijuana at some point in their life had significantly higher concentrations of sperm when compared with men who have never smoked marijuana, according to new research led by Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. The study,...February 13th, 2019