If you quit smoking and gain weight, it may seem like you're trading one set of health problems for another. But a Harvard University-led study found that you're...Oncology
A study out of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found a link between early-life alcohol consumption and aggressive, high-grade prostate cancer. The...Oncology
In a study, researchers developed a gene expression predictor that can indicate whether melanoma in a specific patient is likely to respond to treatment with immune...South Africa
Political fallout around the suicide of the dean of the University of Cape Town's (UCT's) faculty of Health Sciences, Professor Bongani Mayosi, continued at his funeral,...Infectious Diseases
It is estimated that around 1.7bn people on earth are infected with tuberculosis (TB). Spotlight reports that in these so-called latent infections, people have TB in...
July 11th, 2018Around 25% of Medicare spending in the US occurs in the last year of people's lives. This is sometimes discussed as a questionable use of resources but a...
June 27th, 2018South African HIV/Aids experts are again at the forefront of the international fight against the disease, reports City Press. Last week, Kevin Osborne and Keletso...
June 20th, 2018Researchers are hoping to halt the progression from heart attack to heart failure with a small device called Therepi, which contains a reservoir that attaches directly...
May 30th, 2018The largest single-sample study of structural and functional sex differences in the human brain has been attracting attention for more than a year, but only now has been...
March 14th, 2018Isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) for tuberculosis in pregnant women with HIV was associated with excess adverse pregnancy outcomes and may warrant a re-assessment of...
