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Top medical journals are failing — and both they and authors are full of...
It’s a well-known problem with clinical trials: Researchers start out saying they will look for a particular outcome – heart attacks, for example –...
Data shows less than half of PrEP users keep taking it after 2 years
Real-world data from a large US chain of retail pharmacies show that only two in five people keep on taking pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for...
Breast feeding for three months helps keep child eczema at bay
Children exclusively breastfed for the first three months of life had significantly lower odds of having eczema at age 6 compared with peers who...
Eskom crisis may be dwarfed by the looming NHI disaster
As much as the country is currently focused on the crisis in Eskom, the nation seems to have lost sight of the looming National...
Small pioneering study offers hope to Parkinson's patients
People with Parkinson’s disease have been fitted with an implant that can deliver drugs directly to the brain through a port in the side...
Bag-mask ventilation helps to save lives
Among critically ill adults undergoing tracheal intubation, patients receiving bag-mask ventilation had higher oxygen saturations and a lower incidence of severe hypoxaemia, found the...
New assay detects subclinical infection of malaria parasite
The gametocyte sexual form of Plasmodium falciparum, a parasite that causes human malaria, is responsible for mosquito-borne transmission of infection. Some individuals carry low...
Decline in public health spending despite looming NHI
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni’s latest budget reveals that per capita spending on public health will decline for the second year in a row –...
Video of Australian chiropractor's 'very disturbing' treatment of 2-week-old baby
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An Australian chiropractor has sparked criticism after a video of him performing controversial spinal treatments on a two-week-old baby was posted online, reports 2gb.
The footage...
Study finds childhood cancer substantially undiagnosed
A recently published modelling study estimates that there are almost 400,000 new cases of childhood cancer annually, while current records count only around 200,000....