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Implications stemming from evolving definitions of 'safe sex'
Evolving definitions of what is ‘safe sex’ has implications for treatment as prevention and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), says Martin Holt of the University of...
Mediterranean diet may reduce breast cancer risk by 40%
Following a Mediterranean diet could help reduce the risk of contracting one of the worst types of breast cancer by 40%, according to a...
Team finds way to keep lung functioning outside the body
A multidisciplinary team for the first time maintained a fully functional lung outside the body for several days. In a US study, they describe...
Oxford college accused of 'lending credibility to quackery'
An Oxford University college has been accused of inadvertently 'lending credibility to quackery' by agreeing to host a conference on the 'alternative therapy' of...
The role of running ability and gender in marathon performance decline
In elite male marathon runners, performance starts to decline by about two minutes per year at age 35, while for an average runner the...
Time to encourage safer alternatives to smoking – tobacco control expert
The regulation of tobacco and nicotine products has become less straightforward, writes David Sweanor, an adjunct professor of law at the University of Ottawa...
Watch: Video of student filming ‘lazy’ PE nurses assaulted
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A Port Elizabeth student was assaulted by a security guard as she tried to film Livingstone Hospital nurses apparently lazing around while patients needed...
SA's laboratory service CEO and CFO suspended
The CEO along with the CFO of South Africa’s National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) have been suspended by the organisation’s board, pending the outcome...
SA is facing an incurable TB 'ticking time bomb'
The health risk posed by state hospitals discharging patients with totally drug resistant TB was a 'ticking time bomb', says Professor Keertan Dheeda of the...
Cover-up claims over NHS data breach affecting thousands
Thousands of patients are feared to have been harmed after the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) lost more than half a million pieces of...