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3D tumour aids cancer research
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...