CMS to be probed for maladministration and corruption

The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) is poised to launch an investigation into possible maladministration and corruption at the Council for Medical... February 13th, 2019

Gauteng Health denies not taking steps to deal with 'unsafe' Bank of Lisbon building

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

SA has 20% fewer oncologists than two years ago

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

WHO sketches dire state of mental health treatment in SA

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

Motsoaledi task team to tackle Durban hospital monkey problem

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

Eastern Cape Health places jobs on the line with non-payment of suppliers

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 RHI launch Africa's first HPV vaccine impact evaluation project

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

CMR's potential for predicting potentially fatal CVD

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 better than meds to reduce dangerous visceral fat

Exercise resulted in greater reduction in visceral adipose tissue (VAT) relative to weight loss than did pharmacological interventions, found a US... February 13th, 2019

PFAS chemicals passing through the placenta into the foetus

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

New way to prevent and treat chlamydia

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

Eliminating risk factors impacting on non-Aids conditions in people with HIV

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

Examining clinicians' concerns and biases toward prescribing PrEP

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

Complementary medicine use often not disclosed to medical providers

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

Concussion: Aerobic exercise helps adolescent athletes recover faster

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

Lack of attentiveness could be sign of 'silent stroke'

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

Chemotherapy differences in long-term cardiomyopathy risk in children

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

Few US teens meet national recommendations for sleep, exercise and screen time

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

Considerable added benefit for new drug in the prophylaxis of migraine

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

NHS research shows HPV screening practical and more efficacious than cytology

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

Earlier marijuana smoking linked with higher sperm concentration

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