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Pre-surgery coaching cuts hospital stay, costs
A US study found that advance basic fitness and wellness coaching could reduce a surgical patient's average hospital stay two days, when compared to...
Gauteng Health assets offered to settle mounting negligence claims
Gauteng Health has had to offer some of its assets to the sheriff for attachment in a bid to settle mounting legal claims for...
Greece accuses Novartis of bribing 'thousands' of doctors
Greece's justice minister said Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis had likely bribed 'thousands' of doctors and civil servants to promote its products, amid an ongoing...
Fit doctors more likely to have healthy patients
Doctors are being encouraged to get active‚ and to prescribe exercise to their patients on a script. The Times reports that this call has...
NHS England to expand provision of 'game changing' stroke treatment
Thousands of stroke patients will be saved from lifelong disability after NHS England decided to invest millions of pounds in a new treatment hailed as...
Eastern Cape government misses frail care patients deadline
The Eastern Cape Department of Social Development has missed a court-ordered deadline to file affidavits on its plan to move patients from the Lorraine and...
SA breast care centre gets international accreditation
The Netcare Milpark Breast Care Centre of Excellence has been granted a three-year, full accreditation by the National Accreditation Programme for Breast Centres (NAPBC),...
Better stroke outcomes when clot is physically removed
Long-term follow-up of patients in a 2014 study confirms that stroke patients recover better if doctors physically remove a clot from a blocked artery...
Real-world massage may effectively treat chronic low back pain
In the first study of its kind, researchers in the US found real-world massage therapy to be an effective treatment for chronic low back...
Electrical stimulation and physical therapy help paralysed man move legs
Mayo Clinic researchers used electrical stimulation on the spinal cord and intense physical therapy to help a man intentionally move his paralysed legs, stand...