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FDA again clears Pfizer cancer drug pulled from market in 2010
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Pfizer Inc’s drug, Mylotarg, for certain patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), re-clearing a drug...
Gauteng psychiatric care in a dire state
Gauteng is short of about 2,700 psychiatric beds which means that psychiatric patients have to be admitted to general wards, thus posing a threat...
Gauteng Health negligence crisis because of 'management problems'
The Gauteng Health Department is facing medical negligence claims worth over R2bn. JacarandaFM reports that this was revealed in the department's 2016/17 Annual Report...
Support for sugar tax grows, as govt delays to 2018
Three out of four South African adults are supportive of government’s efforts to enforce policies that will discourage people from consuming sugary drinks and...
10% of UK men have a heart age of 10 years older
One in 10 of British 50-year-olds has the heart of a 60-year-old man, suggesting they could die a decade earlier than they should, warns...
Morning drug-taking helps to reduce insomnia
Italian doctors say that sleeplessness after taking the integrase inhibitor dolutegravir occurred much less often when their patients took their dose of the drug...
Penile transplant surgery in SA questioned – Stellenbosch study
Roughly 250 traditional circumcisions lead to penile amputation every year in South Africa, with one response being penile transplantation, as carried out in 2014...
Kurt Worrall-Clare dies
Kurt Worrall-Clare, acting CEO of the National Hospital Network and past CEO and current board member of the Hospital Association of SA, has died.
The Hospital Association...
Breastfeeding significantly lowers endometriosis risk
A study by investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital finds that women who breastfed for longer periods of time had significantly lower risk of...
Asthma medicine lowers Parkinson's disease risk
A robust Norwegian analysis found that the use of asthma medicine halves the risk of getting Parkinson's disease, while one type of medicine against...