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The high mortality cost of depression in coronary artery disease
People who are diagnosed with coronary artery disease and then develop depression, face a risk of death that's twice as high as heart patients...
Markers distinguish viral from bacterial infections in respiratory illness
Scientists from the National Institutes of Health-funded Respiratory Pathogens Research Centre have identified 11 genetic markers in blood that accurately distinguished between viral and bacterial...
Peanut allergy may be cured with probiotics and peanut oral immunotherapy
An oral treatment for one of the most deadly allergies, to peanuts, is still effective four years after it was administered, a study has...
Rapid test to check antibiotic efficacy against urinary-tract bacteria
Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a new method for rapidly determining whether urinary tract infection-causing bacteria are resistant or susceptible to antibiotics.
Antibiotic resistance...
OTC personal amplifier research was flawed – SAAA
Natalie Buttress, co-chairperson of the Ethics and Standards Committee of the SA Association of Audiologists, writes that a recent study on the performance of...
E-cigarettes users have highest smoking quit rate
Among US adults who were established smokers in the past five years, those who use e-cigarettes daily were significantly more likely to have quit...
Crystallised cholesterol role in heart attacks
A US emergency room analysis found that 89% of heart attack patients has an excessive amount of cholesterol arteries obstructing the coronary arteries.
The Michigan State University...
New MD for Board of Healthcare Funders
The Board of Healthcare Funders of Southern Africa (BHF) has appointed Dr Katlego Mothudi, a former executive with Sizwe Medical Fund, to take on...
Worse outcomes when receiving alternative therapy for curable cancers
Patients who choose to receive alternative therapy as the treatment for curable cancers, instead of conventional cancer treatment, have a higher risk of death,...
SSRIs: Media claims that antidepressants don't work is rebutted
The theory that antidepressant drugs, such as the SSRIs, do not work, which has gained considerable international media attention, has been rebutted by an...