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Admitting SA's health crisis the first step to fixing it
A Business Day editorial says that Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi's selective use of statistics is a classic case of a politician under fire...
Immune checkpoint inhibitor shrinks incurable skin cancer tumours
Clinical trials show that an immune checkpoint inhibitor shrinks the tumours of nearly half of patients with incurable, advanced cutaneous squamous-cell carcinoma, an international...
Predictive computer models to optimise HIV therapy
New predictive computer models designed to optimise HIV therapy in countries with limited healthcare resources have been published online. The models, which were developed...
Prof Noakes wins tweeting case appeal
Banting advocate Professor Tim Noakes has won his case at the Health Profession’s Council of SA‚ four years after he tweeted that a mother...
World's highest ER now brings affordable medicine to the Sherpas
Countless foreign climbers who have run into trouble on Mount Everest’s unforgiving slopes have been saved by the local ER services. Now these medics...
Next generation cardiac pump improves outcomes, cuts costs
In a presentation at the annual meeting of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital...
The importance to patients of what doctors wear — largest study
Physicians may want to dig a little deeper into their closets or grab their white coats on the way out of the operating room,...
Update on world experience with facial transplantation
Thirteen years after the first successful face transplant, trauma surgeons should be aware of the current role of facial transplantation for patients with severe...
Sleep duration as risk factors for dementia and premature death
Short and long daily sleep duration were risk factors for dementia and premature death in a study of Japanese adults aged 60 years and...
SA med students becoming more open to legalising euthanasia
More than half of medical students at Stellenbosch University feel the practices of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) should be legalised in South Africa,...