August 15th, 2018Continuous mass distribution of azithromycin in northern Ethiopia, where the childhood eye infection trachoma is a major cause of blindness, is effective in preventing...
August 8th, 2018Unlike many other consumer products, no safety standards have been set for cigarettes or other tobacco products. Now a performance standard proposal has been published...
A woman who survived Ebola in July 2014 may have infected her husband and two sons more than a year later,with the one son dying, report researchers at the US Centres...Oncology
An analysis of World Health Organisation data concludes that lung cancer deaths among women are set to rise by 43%.between 2015 and 2030, while breast cancer deaths are...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...Weekly Roundup
South Africa is just over half-way through a massive effort by multiple stakeholders to circumcise 4.3m men which will avert 1.3m new HIV infections. Explaining what it...Dermatology
derma.plus, the platform for dermatological advice, has conducted an international study on skin cancer to better understand the geographical and socio-economic factors...Weekly Roundup
A new Ebola virus has been found in bats in Sierra Leone, two years after the end of an outbreak that killed over 11,000 across West Africa. But, News24 says it is not...
July 25th, 2018
Critics of the National Health Insurance plan are "hardliners, driven by their desire to defend and perpetuate their own positions of huge benefit and privilege at...
July 25th, 2018A landmark suit against Monsanto about the alleged cancer risks of the company’s popular weedkiller, Roundup, has started in San Francisco. Thousands have brought...
