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Code of conduct for health inspectors gazetted
The Office of Health Standards Compliance has gazetted a code of conduct for the inspectors of public and private health care facilities falling within...
Walmart sued for medical fraud over homeopathic medicines
The largest retailer in the US has been sued for medical fraud. Forbes reports that in a lawsuit filed in the District of Columbia,...
Preventing drug-induced liver injury in patients with HIV
With an estimated annual incidence rate of 13.9 to 24 per 100,000 inhabitants, drug-induced liver injury (DILI) the leading cause of acute liver failure...
Inability to act when experiencing heart attack symptoms
Some patients experiencing a heart attack have a paralysing inability to act on the symptoms, putting them in a life-threatening situation, according to Swedish...
NHS assesses studies on mortality risk of ultra-processed foods
Two recent widely-publicised international studies, which found people who ate the most ‘ultra-processed’ food were more likely to have a heart attack or stroke,...
Getting vaccines to inaccessible corners of the world
Researchers at McMaster University have invented a stable, affordable way to store fragile vaccines for weeks at a time at temperatures up to 40°C,...
Court order ends strike by cleaners at Tygerberg Hospital
The nearly week-long protest by cleaners at the Western Cape’s biggest hospital – arising from months of allegedly being short-changed for their work –...
Antibiotics prescribed for dental patients unnecessary 81% of the time
Antibiotics prescribed by dentists as a pre-emptive strike against infection are unnecessary 81% of the time, according to a study. The findings are important...
No link between night shift work and breast cancer
Working night shifts is not linked to an increased risk of breast cancer, a major prospective UK analysis has found. In a new 10-year...
NHI — a funding model masquerading as a delivery system
National Health Insurance (NHI) is one of the most misunderstood terms in healthcare in South Africa. Professor Manie de Klerk, head of the University...