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Landmark Tuks study on heatwave-linked mortality in SA
South Africans 65 or older living in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg faced a “significant increase in mortality” from increased daily ambient apparent temperature...
Warfarin associated with lower risk of some cancers
Warfarin appeared to be associated with reduced cancer risk in a national European population, found an observational study.
Warfarin is a widely used anticoagulant prescribed...
UK's terminally ill suffer 'traumatic' deaths because they can't afford to go abroad to...
Thousands of terminally ill people in the UK, who want to travel abroad to end their life in specialist clinics cannot afford the costs...
Endurance training helps with muscle inflammation
Endurance training can actually be helpful in dealing with muscle inflammation, according to a paper co-written by faculty at Binghamton University, State University of...
Increased cardiac and stroke death risk in the first year after discontinuation of HT
Discontinuation of postmenopausal Hormone therapy (HT) may be associated with increased risk of cardiac and stroke death in the first post-treatment year.
Hormone therapy (HT)...
For cancer patients with HIV, immunotherapy appears safe
Checkpoint inhibitors appear safe to use in patients with both advanced malignancies and HIV according to an early-phase trial.
Medical Xpress reports that study principal...
HIV patients at greater risk of both heart and kidney disease
Australian research shows HIV patients at high risk for a heart attack or stroke are also at substantially greater risk for chronic kidney disease...
Healthcare professionals keep the flu cycle rolling…
Some four in 10 of healthcare professionals (HCPs) work while experiencing influenza-like illness (ILI), according to the findings of a US survey. As in...
KZN Health condemns nurse's treatment of patient
A St Mary's Hospital nurse appears to have addressed a patient in a manner that does not convey empathy‚ KwaZulu-Natal Health is quoted in a...
Davis Tax Committee warns NHI may spark e-toll style resistance
Uncertainty around how South Africa’s National Health Insurance will work is cause for concern, says a report by the Davis Tax Committee. And if...