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One-month TB prophylaxis as effective as 9-month regimen for people living with HIV
A one-month antibiotic regimen to prevent active tuberculosis (TB) disease was at least as safe and effective as the standard nine-month therapy for people...
Significant risks to the use of short-term PICC
A US study finds that one in every four times a PICC is inserted to intravenuously deliver medicine or nutrition, the patient didn't need...
Hospersa reacts to reports of compromised patient medical files
Trade union, the Health and Other Service Personnel Trade Union of SA (Hospersa), has noted with shock reports that patients’ medical files at Charlotte...
Weighing risks and benefits in paediatric cancer trials
On average, 1 in 10 children who enrol in paediatric phase I cancer trials are improved after the trial, and 1 in 50 die...
Overcrowding at Tembisa Hospital a danger, patients say
Patients at Tembisa Hospital in Ekurhuleni are complaining that their health is in danger as the hospital is overcrowded making infection control difficult. Health-e...
ATLAS: Large open-source data set of brain scans from stroke victims
A University of Southern California (USC)-led team has now compiled, archived and shared one of the largest open-source data sets of brain scans from...
Lesotho's deputy health minister caught up in drug smuggling scandal
The family of Lesotho’s deputy minister of health, Manthabiseng Phohleli, is embroiled in a drug-smuggling scandal after police found more than three-and-a-half tonnes of...
Uber's US health business offers rides to clinics and doctors' offices
Uber is driving deeper into health care by offering to take patients in every US market where it operates to their next medical appointment,...
New global watchdog to monitor tobacco industry
A new global watchdog agency has been launched to monitor the tobacco industry with $20m of philanthropic funding amid fears of dirty tactics by...
Disruption of water supply incapacitates KZN hospital
The Murchison Hospital in the Ugu district in KwaZulu-Natal was incapacitated after its water supply was disrupted again at the weekend, in another in...