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Psychiatric patients at Charlotte Maxeke can’t use ward bathrooms
Poor conditions in the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital (CMJAH) psychiatric ward have been criticised by the Democratic Alliance.
Patients at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic...
Film to be made of first heart transplant 50 years on
A film is to be made of Professor Chris Barnard and the world's first heart transplant operation at Groote Schuur Hospital in December 1967, reports...
'Insufficient evidence' ends HPCSA inquiry into bullying, racism and sexism claims
The Health Professionals Council of SA has closed its inquiry into allegations by Dr Yumna Moosa of bullying, racism, and sexism by senior doctors at...
UK alert over toxicity from 'metal-on-metal' hips
More than 50,000 patients in the UK with “metal-on-metal” hips are being told to undergo X-rays and blood tests after watchdogs found they are...
Gupta company cited in court papers for holding back clinic opening
A 24-hour clinic serving 20,000 people and was supposed to open in Apil, remains unfinished, allegedly because the Gupta-owned Optimum Coal has failed to...
Confusion over the SA state hospital treatment fee
Uncertainty reigns over wide variations in how state medical facilities vary in the amount and under what circumstances they charge patients a treatment fee.
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Most parents make medication measurement errors
More than 80% of parents make measurement errors with their children's medications, of which a third were large errors, suggesting the need for tools...
All children with possible penicillin allergy test negative – small study
Children who, according to their parents, had possible penicillin allergy on the basis of non-specific symptoms all tested negative for actual allergy, a small...
Better outcomes with I&D plus antibiotics for simple skin abscesses
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria are resistant to multiple antibiotics and commonly cause skin infections that can lead to more serious or life-threatening infection...
Molecular test predicts breast cancer mortality risk
A molecular test can pinpoint which patients will have a very low risk of death from breast cancer even 20 years after diagnosis and...