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SAMA's warnings on NHI Bill met with hostility
June 9th, 2021 The SA Medical Association told parliamentarians that thousands of local doctors may emigrate if the NHI is adopted in its current form, reports MedicalBrief. It criticised the Bill for lacking essential detail and warned about the “uncertainty...
UCT neuropsychologists win a small victory against HPCSA
June 9th, 2021 The persistent problems that medical professionals have in getting the Health Professions Council registration necessary in order to practise was highlighted again in the Western Cape High Court, writes MedicalBrief. Two neuropsychologists have...
Encouraging safety results from Sisonke trial of J&J vaccine in SA
June 9th, 2021 The Sisonke Phase 3b clinical trial of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, during which an impressive nearly 290,000 frontline South African health workers were vaccinated in less than two months, has reported positive levels of vaccine...UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN — VACANCY
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June 2nd, 2021 The Wellcome Centre for Infectious Diseases Research in Africa (CIDRI-Africa) based at the Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine (IDM) in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town is a multidisciplinary...
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SAMRC's wastewater tracking of Covid-19 signals KZN third wave
Wastewater analysis in KwaZulu-Natal indicates the province might already be in the third wave of... June 9th, 2021Life Esidimeni survivors face bleak future — NGOs
Five years after the Life Esidimeni scandal, 125 of the surviving patients may be left destitute... June 9th, 2021SAAPA voices concern over alcohol consumption by preteens
The Southern African Alcohol Policy Alliance (Saapa) says strengthening liquor legislation would... June 9th, 2021NEWS RELEASE
Aesthetic Medicine Congress of SA postponed to later in 2021
Due to the current Covid-19 situation and the limited numbers allowed at events the decision has... June 9th, 2021CORONAVIRUS
Drop in convalescent plasma use in US hospitals linked to higher COVID-19 mortality
A slowdown in the use of convalescent plasma to treat hospitalised COVID-19 patients led to a... June 9th, 2021Vegetarians and pescatarians less likely to develop severe Covid-19
Vegetarians and pescatarians are up to 73% less likely to develop severe Covid-19 than meat-eaters,... June 9th, 2021ENDOCRINOLOGY
Fruit but not fruit juice to lower type 2 diabetes risk — AusDiab study
People who consume two servings of fruit per day have 36% lower odds of developing type 2 diabetes...
June 9th, 2021
MEDICAL PRACTICE
AI outperforms humans in creating cancer treatments — but doctors balk
The impact of deploying Artificial Intelligence (AI) for radiation cancer therapy in a real-world clinical setting has been tested by Canadian researchers in a unique study involving physicians and their patients, found a study published in Nature...
June 9th, 2021
ONCOLOGY
Trials stopped early as benefits shown for olaparib in breast cancer
Women with hereditary breast cancer, triggered by the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes, stand a better chance of survival following successful trials of a drug that cuts the likelihood of the cancer returning after treatment, writes The Guardian.
A major...
June 9th, 2021