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No more neural tube defects reported in Botswana dolutegravir study
From 1 May to 15 July 2018 there were no more neural tube defects reported among infants born to women taking dolutegravir (DTG) at...
Music therapy may reduce depressive symptoms
Providing people with dementia who are in institutional care with at least five sessions of a music-based therapeutic intervention probably reduces depressive symptoms and...
HPCSA says it's working to stamp out internal corruption
Countering a wide range of allegations of corruption levelled at it by a whistle-blower, the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) said action...
New dawn in TB prevention therapy
It is estimated that around 1.7bn people on earth are infected with tuberculosis (TB). Spotlight reports that in these so-called latent infections, people have...
Judges no longer have to rule on vegetative state decisions in the UK
Judges in the UK will no longer need to be consulted when doctors and relatives of patients in a vegetative or minimally conscious state...
No alcohol or too much increases dementia risk
Both abstention and consumption of more than 14 units of alcohol a week during middle age, increases dementia risk found a large international study. Every...
Sunscreen users get only 40% the sun protection they think
A small UK experiment found sunscreen with a sun protection factor of 50, applied in a typical way, would at best provide 40% of...
Reproductive health needs of women with HIV in SSA
The needs for safe conception services and a wider choice of contraception for women living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa were highlighted recently at...
Sasop campaign to expose abuse in SA's hospitals
In the aftermath of the Life Esidimeni tragedy in Gauteng and concerns raised about possible human rights violations at the Tower Hospital in the...
Online GPs evade regulation by contracting offshore doctors
The UK’s health care regulator is calling for greater powers to protect patients from online GPs that are able avoid regulation by contracting doctors...