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Gauteng Health denies not taking steps to deal with 'unsafe' Bank of Lisbon building
The Gauteng Health Department has denied allegations that senior officials had not taken steps to deal with complaints regarding safety issues at the Bank...
PFAS chemicals passing through the placenta into the foetus
A study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows PFAS industrial chemicals, which are used in many consumer products, pass through the placenta...
Few US teens meet national recommendations for sleep, exercise and screen time
Only 1 in 20 US adolescents is meeting national recommendations for sleeping, physical activity, and screen time, with only half of as many girls...
'Watchful waiting' rather than surgery for benign ovarian cysts
'Watchful waiting' rather than removal is suitable for most women diagnosed with non-cancerous ovarian cysts, avoiding potential surgical complications, found a two-year study following 1919...
Examining clinicians' concerns and biases toward prescribing PrEP
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV is an antiretroviral pill that is over 90% effective in preventing HIV acquisition when taken as prescribed. A new...
Earlier marijuana smoking linked with higher sperm concentration
Men who have smoked marijuana at some point in their life had significantly higher concentrations of sperm when compared with men who have never...
Mapping gender inequality in the scientific community
A special issue of The Lancet reports that gender inequality in the scientific community starts right at the beginning of the scientific process –...
SA has 20% fewer oncologists than two years ago
According to the 2018 annual census of clinical and radiation oncologists conducted by the South African Society of Clinical and Radiation Oncology, although the...
HPCSA hearing adjourned against surgeon over 'coolie mentality' claims
A Health Professions Council of SA inquiry into Professor Anunathan Reddi, a Durban surgeon who allegedly said Indians had a "coolie" mentality and also...
Nurse sues after eight months without pay because of 'system glitch'
Melanie Vorster, a staff nurse of the Bongani Hospital in Welkom has issued summons against the Free State Health MEC after not being paid...