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Bill seeks to provide legal certainty over 'living wills'
A National Health Amendment Bill to be tabled in Parliament soon will seek to provide for "legal recognition, legal certainty and legal enforceability regarding...
Soccer headers may cause balance problems
Soccer players who head the ball may be more likely to experience short-term balance problems, suggesting that repetitive head impacts could have the potential...
Persistently high rate of HIV infections scares SA's health minister
The high rate of HIV infections in South Africa has left Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi “scared”. City Press reports that Motsoaledi was addressing...
Esidimeni: Global lessons from a local tragedy
The former SA head of mental health services Melvyn Freeman has broken years of silence over the Life Esidimeni tragedy, writing in The Lancet...
Anger in China over faulty vaccine scandal
Chinese parents are in an uproar after reports that hundreds of thousands of children might have been injected with faulty vaccines, the latest scandal...
Testosterone effective in combating cachexia in cancer patients
In patients with advanced cancer undergoing early standard of care therapy, adjunct testosterone improved lean body mass and was also associated with increased quality...
KZN nurses march on legislature against bad working conditions
“We are nurses not slaves,” said disgruntled nurse Bongekile Khomo. “I have to take care of 60 patients in one ward. We work under...
Metabolites identified that may help predict ME/CFS
A study led by researchers at the Centre for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health has identified a...
Donor cuts could threaten global progress on HIV
If donor government funding for HIV continues to fall, nearly two decades of progress against the disease will be in jeopardy, according to new...
HIV data from sub-Saharan Africa gives reasons for hope
Researchers and public health experts presented promising new data on the HIV epidemic and response in sub-Saharan Africa at the 22nd International AIDS Conference...