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Govt dietary advice deserves a Health Warning
Consumers have already had ‘a bitter taste of how hopelessly misleading’ nutritional orthodoxy can be, writes nutritionist and author Joanna Blythman in The Observer,...
MRC gets first women president
The Medical Research Council will get its first woman president next month when Professor Glenda Gray succeeds Professor Abdool Karim. Gray is a world-renowned...
Blood lab bled dry
The SA National Health Laboratory Service is owed so much money by provincial governments in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng that it has stopped courier services...
Fewer eggs, more miscarriages
Women who produce fewer eggs during IVF treatment are more likely to miscarry, research suggests. Scientists analysed 124,351 IVF pregnancies between 1991 and 2008....
Oldest complete metastatic cancer
British archaeologists have found what they say is the world’s oldest complete example of a human being with metastatic cancer and hope it will...
Genome wizard takes on ageing
Craig Venter, the US scientist who raced the US government to map the human genome over a decade ago and created synthetic life in...
Poison by the barrel
US toxicologists warn that e-liquids, used to refill e-cigarettes, pose ‘a significant risk to public health’, particularly to children, who may be drawn to...
CMS registrar to be suspended
Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsaoledi has written to the registrar of the Council of Medical Schemes (CMS), Monwabisi Gantsho, warning him that he intends...
Gynaecologist fined
The Times reports that Johannesburg gynaecologist Dr Kazeem Okanlomo has been fined R15,000 for unprofessional conduct by the Health Professions Council of SA for...
Misdiagnosis victim waits
A Rustenburg mother of four who won a lawsuit against the Limpopo Health MEC for malpractice has yet to be paid, notes a Saturday...