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Health Department concedes liability in R9.8m damages case
Born mentally and physically handicapped, Nomfundo Skhosana has irreversible brain damage, is blind, partially deaf and will remain totally dependent on others for the...
KPMG to analyse confidential Melomed information
Material seized in a legal wrangle over the alleged leaking of ‘confidential’ information belonging to hospital group Melomed is to be handed to an...
The ‘older woman’ phenomenon in childbirth
The shift towards older motherhood is irreversible and it is pointless to warn women to have their children by the age of 35 or...
SA’s health policies should be a key election issue
South Africans can attest to the grim consequences of regressive stances on issues of public health: The disastrous HIV/Aids policies of former president Thabo...
HIV-positive women sue KZN Health for ‘forced sterilisations’
More than a dozen HIV-positive Durban women are suing the KwaZulu-Natal Health Department after they allege they were ‘forcibly’ sterilised. The Independent on Saturday...
Discovery helps in the treatment of Cryptococcus infections
A discovery by University of Liverpool scientists means that the initial treatment for a brain infection caused by fungus could now be treated in...
Hospital group to build more SA day hospitals
More people will soon have the option of undergoing minor surgery at a hospital that will discharge them on the same day, following the...
UK’s NHS says breast cancer drug is too expensive
A Herceptin-style drug that can offer some women with advanced breast cancer nearly six months of extra life has been turned down for use...
Scottish scientists develop novel flu treatment
Scottish scientists have developed a novel treatment that could protect against any strain of the flu. Medical Xpress reports that the preventative treatment could...
Advances helping the blind see and the deaf hear
Thanks to a high-tech procedure that involved the surgical implantation of a ‘bionic eye’, Roger Pontz, who was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa as a...