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Raoul de Villiers
Renowned Cape Town surgeon Professor Raoul de Villiers, who worked alongside heart transplant pioneer Professor Christiaan Barnard when the two were still laboratory researchers,...
The return of the house call in US
A relic from the medical past – the house call – is returning to favour in some US hospitals’ palliative care programmes, which are...
Exodus of medical staff at Universitas alarms health professionals
Health professionals say that the exodus of medical practitioners from the Universitas Academic Hospital in Bloemfontein has reached ‘crisis level’. And, according to a...
SA’s NHI scheme could be threatened by medical negligence claims
Medical negligence claims may threaten the viability of SA’s proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme. A Mail & Guardian report quotes Sylvester Chima from...
US regulators advise against power morcellator to remove fibroids
US regulators have advised doctors to stop using a surgical device used in tens of thousands of hysterectomies each year, citing its potential to...
Legal wrangle won’t stop inquiry into SA’s private healthcare sector
The inquiry into private health care in SA will continue despite legal wrangling between industry player Netcare and KPMG, which was appointed as a...
‘Revolutionary’ drug trial to open up ‘new era’ in cancer fight
A ‘revolutionary’ drug trial aimed at discovering personalised treatments for the UK’s biggest cancer killer will begin in July, in an advance which experts...
New sensor to prevent pressure sores
Researchers have developed a new type of pressure sensor – dubbed a ‘second skin’ – which could prevent dangerous sores, reports BBC News. The...
Outreach campaigns targeting HIV in informal settlements
SA has charted steady and significant decreases in mother-to-child HIV transmission rates but prevention of mother-to-child HIV (PMTCT) campaigns may still be starting HIV-positive...
Crimea situation a setback in the fight against HIV
The 20th anniversary of the discovery of HIV has coincided with the latest setback in the efforts to defeat the virus, writes Norman Fowler,...