Healing times for skin ulcers and bedsores can be reduced by a third with the use of low-intensity ultrasound, a pioneering study on mice and humans from the University...Focus
The risk of intracranial haemorrhage has been linked to co-treatment with antidepressants and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), in a 4m person Korean...Public Health
Pregnant women who defecate in the open are more likely to have a premature delivery or give birth to a baby with low weight than those who use toilets. The research, in...News Update
In April 2014, Free State Health terminated the services of around 3,800 community health workers (CHW) for being too old and under-educated. Later, 117 CHW were charged...News Update
An anaesthetic machine used to prepare patients for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans has been broken for over a year, arousing opposition party anger.News Update
A teenager died in the waiting room of a Durban hospital at the weekend after allegedly being turned away by two government hospitals. One hospital reportedly did not...News Update
July 14th, 2015Paramedics are trained to save lives but sometimes enter situations where a dying patient's end-of-life wishes contradict their professional code. A US study looks at...
Research for Her, an online registry that matches women with research studies and clinical trials, enrolled study participants more quickly when compared with...Oncology
Combining chemotherapy with new drugs that target a protein that helps cancer cells to withstand chemotherapy could drastically improve treatment, according to...
