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3D tumour aids cancer research

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A group of researchers in China and the US have successfully created a 3D model of a cancerous tumour using a 3D printer. Medical...

Debate over efficacy of stockpiled flu drug Tamiflu

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Vast sums may have been wasted on a flu drug that works no better than Paracetamol, reports BBC News. The UK has spent £473m...

No private medical training, says SA Health minister

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Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has shot down suggestions that private institutions be allowed to train doctors to alleviate a shortage of physicians, saying...

British drug company faces GSK bribery allegations

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UK drug company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is facing a criminal investigation in Poland for allegedly bribing doctors, according to a BBC Panorama programme. BBC News...

Super-immune bugs ‘worse than Aids’ — SA Health DG

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The first patient with pneumonia resistant to all antibiotics was recorded in SA last year, raising the ‘terrifying’ possibility of a ‘post-antibiotic era’, writes...

Six new forms of inherited blindness discovered

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Scientists have discovered six new forms of inherited blindness, each one resulting from mutations in a different gene important in eye development and vision,...

Changing diet behind SA’s rising cardiovascular disease rate

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More South Africans are dying from heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases than before. Health-e reports that the World Heart Foundation’s recently released...

Medicare data sheds light on treatment decisions in the US

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A tiny fraction of the 880,000 US doctors and other health care providers who take Medicare accounted for nearly a quarter of the roughly...

New drugs to treat hepatitis C welcomed despite costs

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Doctors have welcomed the prospect of new drugs to treat the liver-destroying hepatitis C virus, writes Reuters Health. Gilead Sciences presented data at the...

Universal health coverage should be the goal – world medical students

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Medical students worldwide have called for universal health coverage to be a specific health goal within the post-2015 global development agenda, reports University World...