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Hand-held EEG device accurately predicts brain bleeds
In a clinical trial conducted among adults in 11 hospitals, researchers have shown that a commercially available, hand-held EEG device approved in 2016 by...
With HIV, no need to embellish achievements or to diminish challenges
A culture of chicanery, subterfuge and sycophancy now permeates all the factions in government, writes Fareed Abdullah, a medical doctor and former CEO of the South...
Asthma drug effective for patients with urticaria
The asthma drug Omalizumab is shown to be effective in treating hives, found two separate German clinical studies.
Patients who develop itchy wheals in response...
Should doctors breach confidentiality when a patient is unfit to drive?
Should healthcare professionals breach confidentiality when a patient is unfit to drive, asks Daniel Sokol, medical ethicist and barrister, in the British Medical Journal?
He...
Booster vaccine during pregnancy cuts pertussis incidence in infants
Among infants of women who received the Tdap pertussis booster vaccine during pregnancy, the risk of contracting pertussis was reduced by an estimated 91%...
How nature's sounds help us to relax
A Brighton and Sussex Medical School study found that playing 'natural sounds' affected the bodily systems that control the flight-or-fright and rest-digest autonomic...
Determining a perceptual threshold for artificial looking lips
Recognising the perceptual threshold for when lips appear unnatural is important to avoid an undesirable outcome in lip augmentation. A study in JAMA Plastic Surgery...
Prudence, impatience, laziness not entrenched traits but contagious attitudes
'Prudence', 'impatience' and 'laziness' are typically thought of as entrenched personality traits that guide how people weigh the cost of risk, delay and effort...
Lawyers must be barred from medical negligence process – Health MEC
The KwaZulu-Natal Health, in a Sunday Times interview, has called for lawyers to be excluded from the compensation process for medical malpractice, because "crooked" lawyers are...
Diabetes is even deadlier than previously thought – Study
Nearly four times as many Americans may die of diabetes as indicated on death certificates, a rate that would bump the disease up from...