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...Public Health
A research reviewed of all published studies that assessed the vitamin D status of healthy populations in Africa found that the average prevalence of vitamin D...
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...
A combination of antiretroviral drugs used to treat HIV had no beneficial effect in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 in a large-scale randomised trial. Reuters Health...Weekly Roundup
Health workers have halted operations at Rietvlei Hospital, in Umzimkhulu, in southern KwaZulu-Natal demanding that the facility be sanitised after patients and nurses...Weekly Roundup
Several nurses at Linksfield Netcare Hospital in Orange Grove, Johannesburg, have reportedly contracted COVID-19. News24 reports that according to one of those who...Weekly Roundup
The World Health Organisation and key partners have unveiled a plan to purchase 2bn doses of COVID-19 vaccines for the highest risk populations of the world, reports...Coronavirus
Persistent cough and fever have been confirmed as the most prevalent symptoms associated with COVID-19, according to a major review of the scientific literature. Other...Infectious Diseases
The number of human tuberculosis (TB) cases that are due to transmission from animals, as opposed to human-to-human transmission, may be much higher than previously...South Africa
The first participants in South Africa’s first clinical trial that seeks to develop a vaccine against COVID-19 are being vaccinated this week.
The first clinical...
