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New screening method to detect future type-1 diabetes risk
A new way of screening babies and adults for future risk of type 1 diabetes will be much more effective at identifying the condition...
AHA recommendation on newer type of blood-thinning medications
A newer type of blood-thinning medications, non-vitamin K oral anticoagulants (NOACs), is now recommended as the preferred alternative to warfarin for reducing the risk...
Pressure at work increases weight gain risk in women
Heavy pressures at work seem to predispose women to weight gain, irrespective of whether they have received an academic education. This is shown in...
Gene therapy: A game changer for those with sickle-cell disease
With advances in gene therapy, scientists have begun to talk of a cure for sickle-cell disease, an inherited condition that mainly afflicts people of...
Japanese stem cell research 'dangerous and unwise'
There is real hope for treating spinal cord injury with stem cell-based therapies in the future. However, writes Paul Knoepfler on the Knoepfler Lab...
REGISTERED NURSES – CATH LAB
Rondebosch Medical Centre is an Independent Private Health Care Facility in Cape Town, committed to providing quality, value driven, holistic health care to all...
Intensive BP control reduces risk of mild cognitive impairment
Intensive control of blood pressure in older people significantly reduced the risk of developing mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a precursor of early dementia, in...
Perfect human blood vessels grown in a petri dish
Scientists have managed to grow perfect human blood vessels as organoids in a petri dish for the first time. The breakthrough engineering technology dramatically...
Fish oil does not improve asthma control
Fish oil does not appear to improve asthma control in adolescents and young adults with uncontrolled asthma who are overweight or obese, according to...
SA's orthopaedic surgeons to benefit from Cape 3D printing laboratory
Orthopaedic surgeons in South Africa will be able to plan and practise a lot better for procedures, thanks to 3D printing. The Mercury reports...