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Johannesburg paediatrician who crowdfunded chemo drug, dies
Johannesburg paediatrician Kerryn Neilson‚ who raised more than R1m last month to help pay for a novel chemotherapy drug‚ has succumbed to blood cancer,...
Newly UCT initiative to advance healthcare safety
A new collaboration, located within the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Clinical Skills Centre, will help foster safer practices in healthcare through an educational...
Health experts divided over whether Big Tobacco's 'smoke-free world' strategy be trusted
Public health experts are divided on whether tobacco industry efforts to reduce health impacts and death through smoke-free products should be engaged with or...
Cardiovascular risk higher for people with HIV
People with HIV are more likely to develop cardiovascular conditions, including atherosclerosis and peripheral artery disease, than their HIV-negative counterparts, researchers reported at the...
Statistics SA: The swings and roundabouts of how we die
In 2016 women in South Africa were 36% more likely to die from diabetes than from the combination of car accidents, violent crime, suicide,...
Majority of hepatitis B cases remain undiagnosed and untreated
About 300m people worldwide are living with hepatitis B, yet the majority of cases remain undiagnosed or untreated – The Guardian reports that a...
North West hospital's patients go vegetarian as money runs out
Patients at a public hospital in Mahikeng will have to wait “until further notice” before they can have meat with their daily meals “due...
Cerebral palsy: Constantia and University of Pretoria join hands in caring
Medical academics, healthcare practitioners, lawyers, as well as representatives from government and Constantia Insurance Company met in a bid to avert the prospective collapse...
Emergency HIV testing effective in identifying patients currently missed
A non-targeted testing approached by the emergency department in a South African hospital revealed a high HIV prevalence with a significant burden of undiagnosed...
Will Ramaphosa put TB back on the radar?
When one considers the TB numbers, it boggles the mind that it is not dominating the headlines, not a top priority for political parties...