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Better protective equipment in the wake of the Ebola crisis

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More than 100 ideas and three potential products are the result of a Johns Hopkins University assisted attempt to minimise risk to health workers, following...

Guidelines to enable cannabis users to reduce health risks

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Canada's Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines, based on a scientific review by an international team of experts and released with the endorsement of key medical...
Depressions

Persistent mental distress linked to higher risk of death in heart patients

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In patients with stable coronary artery disease, persistent psychological distress of at least moderate severity is associated with a substantial increase in cardiovascular and...
EllisHowarth

EthiQal and MPS take up the debate on mediation for medical negligence claims

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Graham Howarth, the Medical Protection Society's head of medical services Africa, and JP Ellis, EthiQal's medical malpractice legal manager, respond to Advocate Alan Nelson's...
EmigratingDoctors

It's not about the money for SA doctors… It's about poor working conditions and...

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It's not money but poor working condition that's is the main reason doctors leave South Africa’s public health sector. And when it comes to...
Settas

NHI White Paper proposes 'effective nationalisation without compensation' of private healthcare

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The recently released National Health Insurance (NHI) White Paper ignores the fundamentals of competition and choice, writes Mike Settas, director of health insurer KaeloXelus. Among...

Using electronic medical records to predict a second stroke

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A US study has used electronic medical records to predict the likelihood of a person experiencing atrial fibrillation after either of two kinds of...
HeartbeatSync

A lover's touch eases pain as heartbeats, breathing synchronise

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When an empathetic partner holds the hand of a woman in pain, their heart and respiratory rates synchronise and her pain dissipates, found a...
GenomeSequencing

Study queries usefulness of genome sequencing in primary care

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For all the promises of genomics ushering in a new era, with scientists urging people to get their DNA sequenced, a first pilot study...
Motsoaledi

NHI White Paper 'a fantasy that ignores the SA economic downturn'

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The SA National Health Insurance White Paper is a 'wan fantasy' that ignores SA's ailing economy poor regulatory mechanisms and the role of private...