The state of has become the fifth country touched by the world’s worst Ebola outbreak that has killed some 1,550 people in since March, reports . The deadly virus has defied efforts by governments to control it, prompting to call for the to...Focus
Medical scheme members are completely unaware of the extent to which medical schemes will be undermined if the regulations drafted by that outline which health insurance policies should be allowed to continue are implemented. reports that this is...Focus
Religious and cultural beliefs should not be used as a reason not to donate organs. An report says this is the view of Johannesburg spec ialist and transplant surgeon Dr Anna Sparaco,, at an briefing, who said: ‘Every religion teaches that if...
September 17th, 2014In 120 healthcare workers have died in the Ebola outbreak in and twice that number have been infected. reports that the government has resorted to a forcible mass quarantine of an entire sprawling city slum in , in an attempt to contain the...
Deadly virus outbreaks are testing the ability of medical services around the globe. reports that health ministers from 11 countries have adopted a common strategy to fight a deadly Ebola outbreak in the region. At an emergency meeting in ,...Focus
researchers have called on the scientific and activist communities to ‘cease debating who is “eligible” or not for HIV treatment” in favour of allowing patients to “make the decision for themselves in consultation with a supportive and...Focus
The held last week in drew the likes of former president Bill Clinton, singer Bob Geldorf and Professor Françoise Barré Sinoussi, outgoing president of the and the who co-discovered HIV. Marie McInerny writes on the health blog that Mark...Focus
The has declared the spread of Ebola in an international health emergency. reported that WHO officials said a co-ordinated international response was essential to stop and reverse the spread of the virus. Although the recommendations stop short...Focus
public hospitals have come under fire as being possibly the most haphazard and hazardous in . reports that authorities have admitted the province's state hospitals were woefully equipped, lacking even basic life-saving equipment. The CEOs of the...Focus
For every worker who dies each year as a result of an accident on a SA mine, nine more die of tuberculosis (TB). reports that Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said during the debate on President Jacob Zuma’s address: ‘There are 41,810 cases of...Focus
The MERS virus has caused nearly 50% more deaths in than has been officially reported, a review of medical data by Saudi health authorities shows. reports that the survey by the revealed that 282 Saudis and non-Saudis have died in the kingdom...Focus
An ambitious programme to fight tuberculosis could see every prisoner, mine worker and school child in the country screened for the killer disease in the near future, reports the . Speaking at the closing of the recent , Health Minister Aaron...Focus
The number of people in the world who are obese or overweight has topped 2.1bn, up from 875m in 1980. And, reports, the latest figures in show that not one country is succeeding in treating it. Experts attribute the rise ‘modernisation’,...Focus
Everyone over the age of 40 should take cholesterol-busting statins. The reports that this is according to UK heart surgeon, Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub of , who said the benefits of the controversial drugs ‘massively’ outweigh the risks and to...Focus
Female g enital mutilation (FGM) is not just an African problem. A British helpline received 215 calls in just under 10 months, reports. Almost half of the cases have been referred to the police or children’s services. John Cameron, from the...Focus
In the most comprehensive picture of drug resistance across the globe, with data from 114 countries, the warns of a crisis bigger and more urgent that the Aids epidemic of the 1980s. reports that in , the WHO’s Dr Keiji Fukuda writes: ‘A...
