August 5th, 2020There have been some raised eyebrows at the UK medical guidelines body's draft guidelines on the management of chronic pain punting acupuncture, despite what the critics say is poor evidence of its efficacy, writes MedicalBrief.
Acupuncture...
August 5th, 2020Because of modern medicine, baby boomers were set to be the longest living generation ever, writes Bruce Horovitz for Kaiser Health News. Then came COVID-19 and totally changed the dialogue.
Imagine this scenario, perhaps a year or two in the...
July 29th, 2020COVID-19 mortality in Africa has been significantly lower than elsewhere, but the worst is yet to come and will set the continent back several years, finds a report by the Institute of Security Studies of SA, the Gordon Institute of Business...
July 29th, 2020The Constitutional Court's decision last week to set aside the conviction and sentence of Dr Danie van der Walt, an obstetrician and gynaecologist jailed for medical negligence, is examined by Natasha Naidoo, associate at Norton Rose Fulbright...
July 22nd, 2020A 35-nation study found that countries headed by women leaders had six-fold fewer deaths from COVID-19 compared to those with male leadership.
A thought-provoking study by researchers at the Trinity College Dublin, University of Pretoria,...
July 22nd, 2020In early summer, parts of the United States began following a very similar path to that taken by Sweden in dealing with COVID-19, writes STAT News – but one it stumbled onto, not chosen based on science. Now, the next few weeks will show the...
July 22nd, 2020The struggle for AIDS treatment in South Africa laid the foundation for relatively widespread citizen trust in science and expertise. We should build on the lessons learnt then to foster COVID-19 behavioural change, writes Professor Steven Robins,...
July 15th, 2020It is possible that Sweden was right all along with what critics described as a "mad experiment" that would lead to catastrophe, writes Christopher Snowdon in The Daily Telegraph.
Snowdon writes:
There have been times during this pandemic that...
July 15th, 2020Are they "glorified wheelbarrows" or an "extremely innovative" solution to providing health services in the remotest parts of the Eastern Cape?
Controversy has been swirling around the province's acquisition of 100 motorbikes with sidecars that...
July 15th, 2020Lady Julia Cumberlege, chair of a damning inquiry into a series of British medical scandals around female health matters, urged women to dump their GPs if they displayed a"dismissive attitude".
Women should switch GP if their doctor is not...
July 15th, 2020South Africa's Higher Education, Science and Innovation Department has reassigned R15m from existing indigenous knowledge projects to support COVID-19 interventions, including the herb touted by Madagascar's president as a cure for the...
July 8th, 2020Indian public hospitals were already severely short of 600,000 doctors and 2m nurses, compounded by over half of the 1.2m registered doctors being quacks with no medical qualifications. Then Covid-19 hit.
It had taken a long time for Pramila...
July 8th, 2020British health experts assess whether the 15-weeks of lockdown hardship was worth it and, in retrospect, what should have been done.
The coronavirus pandemic has cost Britain dear. The virus has claimed over 44,000 lives. The Daily Telegraph...
July 8th, 2020No health system can afford everything that may be demanded of it, making priority-setting arguably the most significant and challenging health policy issue, writes Prof Solomon Benatar of the universities of Cape Town and Toronto.
Professor...
The murky political history of the cigarette offers a vantage point to locate current debates on the cigarette sale ban in South Africa under lockdown, writes Dr Elijah Doro, a post-doctoral fellow in the history department at Stellenbosch...
July 1st, 2020Western countries are luring African medical professionals and healthcare workers to migrate as they seek to bridge the gap in medical personnel created by the coronavirus outbreak, writes Wagdy Sawahel for University World News. Is this a loss...
