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Medicine mix-up causes 'werewolf syndrome' in Spanish children
A number of children in Spain have had abnormal hair growth similar to "werewolf syndrome" (hypertrichosis) after receiving incorrect medication. BBC News reports that...
Latest African healthcare facilities' accreditations by COHSASA
Latest accreditations awarded to healthcare facilities by The Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa COHSASA (NPC)
The healthcare facilities listed below have been...
Graca Machel's bid before HPCSA to silence Mandela's former doctor
Nelson Mandela’s widow Graça Machel is trying to prevent his former doctor from revealing sensitive information about the icon’s final years, reports the Weekend Argus....
CAR-T cell therapy for leukaemia associated with less dangerous side effects
The CARPALL trial, led by Professor Persis Amrolia and Dr Sara Ghorashian at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and the University College London Great...
Teams fail to replicate 2016 results that claimed HIV 'cure' in monkeys
Three separate and independent teams of researchers in the United States attempted to replicate the results of a team that, back in 2016, claimed to...
First minimally invasive remote robotic cardiac procedure
Clinicians in India have teamed up to demonstrate the feasibility of having a physician remotely perform percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures, reports Medgadget.
Using the...
Human trial finds first hint that body's ‘biological age’ can be reversed
In a small human trial, drugs seemed to rejuvenate the body’s ‘epigenetic clock’, which tracks a person’s biological age, writes Alison Abbott for Nature....
Age as a litmus test for choosing the next US president
With three Democrats in their 70s vying to challenge the 73-year old Donal Trump, the oldest first-term president in US history, age’s importance will...
Chilling details of PE doctor’s shooting of doctor wife
As his estranged wife lay bleeding on the floor of their luxury Summerstrand home, a bullet lodged in her jaw, Port Elizabeth doctor Mkhuseli Boto...
Adults with cerebral palsy have doubled CVD and respiratory risk
Adults with cerebral palsy are about twice as likely to develop cardiovascular disease and chronic respiratory disease compared to adults without cerebral palsy, according...