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FOCUS: MEDICO-LEGAL

Gauteng Health ordered to treat cancer patients – immediately

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The Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) has instructed the provincial Department of Health to immediately provide cancer treatment to patients on a backlog list –...
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FOCUS: RESEARCH ISSUES

Call for leading journals to ban tobacco-funded research

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Tobacco firms are investing billions in medical products, spurring calls for medical journals to ban research by tobacco companies as well as their subsidiaries,...
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FOCUS: PUBLIC HEALTH

Eastern Cape acts to ease staff shortages, but concerns linger

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The dire shortage of medical staff and the critical number of vacancies at Eastern Cape hospitals and clinics – and others, nationwide – may...
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CORONAVIRUS WATCH

Updated WHO Covid guidelines slammed

While hospitals in at least four American states have reinstated mask mandates amid a rise in cases of Covid-19, seasonal flu and other respiratory...

Autopsies show coronavirus invades whole body, not just lungs – US study

Autopsies carried out by scientists showed that the virus causing Covid-19 can be found throughout the entire body, including the eyes, and remain present...

More than half of patients suffer long Covid symptoms – SA study

At least 60% of patients with mild Covid-19 had one long Covid symptom, while 35% had three ongoing symptoms for two months, according to...

Nasal cell destruction behind loss of smell after Covid – US study

A continual and abnormal immune response that destroys nasal cells could be responsible for millions of people losing their sense of smell after contracting...

Study reveals Omicron was in Africa before detection in SA

A recently published collaborative study has revealed that the Omicron variant was circulating in Africa at least two months before it was detected in...

NEWS UPDATE

NHI hit with two more legal suits

Two new legal suits have been lodged against the NHI in the past week, one taking aim at MPs over alleged inadequate public consultation,...

CMS seeks legal advice on racial profiling findings

The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) is consulting lawyers on how to proceed against the three medical aids named in the Section 59 “racial...

SA mulls law review on migrant healthcare

Non-South Africans are not entitled to the full package of comprehensive healthcare provided to this country’s citizens, the chairperson of Parliament’s Health Portfolio Committee...

SA experts flag glucose 'wellness' monitors

Medical experts have expressed concern about continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) being promoted and sold in South Africa as wellness gadgets for tracking food and...

UK approves new bladder cancer treatment

Experts say a new treatment for advanced bladder cancer, which has just been approved by NHS England, could double survival time for patients and...

Eastern Cape acts to ease staff shortages, but concerns linger

The dire shortage of medical staff and the critical number of vacancies at Eastern Cape hospitals and clinics – and others, nationwide – may...

Legal battle over US foreign aid cuts

Health advocates from the US, Kenya and SA have sounded the alarm over the impacts of America’s foreign aid suspension, urging a US court...

Woman dies after allergic reaction from CT scan

What began as a routine medical examination turned tragic when a recently graduated 22-year-old Brazilian lawyer went into anaphylactic shock during a CT scan and died...

NEWS RELEASES

Companies raise R365 000 for cystic fibrosis awareness

In a remarkable effort of community collaboration and corporate responsibility, Pachas Restaurant and TRX Electronics, both in Pretoria, joined forces to raise R365 000...

New SA-based chief commercial officer for MPS International

Medical Protection Society (MPS), the world’s leading medical defence organisation which protects and supports the professional interests of more than 300 000 healthcare professionals,...

CARDIOVASCULAR

Revised US guidelines on hypertension

The American Heart Association (AHA) has recently revised its guidelines on hypertension, the leading risk factor for stroke and various heart diseases, like coronary artery...

DIETETICS

Longer sleep, early breakfast, affects BMI – Spanish study

A recent study suggests that there are patterns in the relationship between meal times and body weight, with the scientists saying that to keep...

GERONTOLOGY

Pan-African group launches plan for brain health of ageing citizens

Alzheimer's Disease Related Dementias (ADRD) was mainly considered a global health issue in high-income countries, but this perception is rapidly changing, with recent projections...

INFECTIOUS DISEASES

FDA grants priority review for oral gonorrhoea antibiotic

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted British pharmaceutical company GSK’s application for priority review of gepotidacin as an oral option for...

ONCOLOGY

UK approves new bladder cancer treatment

Experts say a new treatment for advanced bladder cancer, which has just been approved by NHS England, could double survival time for patients and...

Gauteng Health ordered to treat cancer patients – immediately

The Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) has instructed the provincial Department of Health to immediately provide cancer treatment to patients on a backlog list –...

RESPIRATORY

FDA green-lights chronic lung disease treatment

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved oral brensocatib (Brinsupri) as the first treatment for non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis in adults and children 12...

SLEEP MEDICINE

Battling insomnia? Stop trying so hard, says sleep expert

There are millions of people worldwide who have “tried everything” to get more sleep, but as sleep coach Camilla Stoddart advises in The Guardian,...

TALKING POINTS

The long, slow collapse of South Africa’s top hospitals

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Professor Daynia Ballot, head of Clinical Medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand, has three decades of experience working in hospitals in Gauteng. Writing...
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Derided theories of two British orthodontists now have a cult following

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The Mews, a father-son team of British orthodontists, have a controversial and derided theory about the source of crooked teeth, writes William Brennan for...
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Gauteng Health’s ill-considered cost-cutting risks patient care and training

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A group of senior healthcare professionals have warned that drastic austerity measures introduced by the Gauteng Department of Health (GDoH), including the unilateral downgrading...
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NEWS UPDATE

NHI hit with two more legal suits

Two new legal suits have been lodged against the NHI in the past week, one taking aim at MPs over alleged inadequate public consultation,...

CMS seeks legal advice on racial profiling findings

The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) is consulting lawyers on how to proceed against the three medical aids named in the Section 59 “racial...

SA mulls law review on migrant healthcare

Non-South Africans are not entitled to the full package of comprehensive healthcare provided to this country’s citizens, the chairperson of Parliament’s Health Portfolio Committee...

SA experts flag glucose 'wellness' monitors

Medical experts have expressed concern about continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) being promoted and sold in South Africa as wellness gadgets for tracking food and...

UK approves new bladder cancer treatment

Experts say a new treatment for advanced bladder cancer, which has just been approved by NHS England, could double survival time for patients and...

Eastern Cape acts to ease staff shortages, but concerns linger

The dire shortage of medical staff and the critical number of vacancies at Eastern Cape hospitals and clinics – and others, nationwide – may...

Legal battle over US foreign aid cuts

Health advocates from the US, Kenya and SA have sounded the alarm over the impacts of America’s foreign aid suspension, urging a US court...

Woman dies after allergic reaction from CT scan

What began as a routine medical examination turned tragic when a recently graduated 22-year-old Brazilian lawyer went into anaphylactic shock during a CT scan and died...

NHI hit with two more legal suits

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Two new legal suits have been lodged against the NHI in the past week, one taking aim at MPs over alleged inadequate public consultation,...

CMS seeks legal advice on racial profiling findings

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The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) is consulting lawyers on how to proceed against the three medical aids named in the Section 59 “racial...

MEDICLINIC NEWCASLE – Patients given prophylactic anticoagulants within 24 hours of admission to hospital with COVID-19 was associated with a decreased risk of 30 day mortality and no increased risk of serious bleeding events, found a UK/US research team. This is "strong..

HIV/AIDS

NHI hit with two more legal suits

Two new legal suits have been lodged against the NHI in the past week, one taking aim at MPs over alleged inadequate public consultation,...

NEAUROLOGY

NHI hit with two more legal suits

Two new legal suits have been lodged against the NHI in the past week, one taking aim at MPs over alleged inadequate public consultation,...

HIV/AIDS

NHI hit with two more legal suits

Two new legal suits have been lodged against the NHI in the past week, one taking aim at MPs over alleged inadequate public consultation,...

CMS seeks legal advice on racial profiling findings

The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) is consulting lawyers on how to proceed against the three medical aids named in the Section 59 “racial...

SA mulls law review on migrant healthcare

Non-South Africans are not entitled to the full package of comprehensive healthcare provided to this country’s citizens, the chairperson of Parliament’s Health Portfolio Committee...

PUBLIC HEALTH

Eastern Cape acts to ease staff shortages, but concerns linger

The dire shortage of medical staff and the critical number of vacancies at Eastern Cape hospitals and clinics – and others, nationwide – may...

RESPIRATORY

FDA green-lights chronic lung disease treatment

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved oral brensocatib (Brinsupri) as the first treatment for non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis in adults and children 12...

ENDOCRINOLOGY

Eastern Cape acts to ease staff shortages, but concerns linger

The dire shortage of medical staff and the critical number of vacancies at Eastern Cape hospitals and clinics – and others, nationwide – may...

GUIDELINES

Revised US guidelines on hypertension

The American Heart Association (AHA) has recently revised its guidelines on hypertension, the leading risk factor for stroke and various heart diseases, like coronary artery...
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