The US government filed its first criminal charges against a major drug distributor and company executives over their alleged roles in fuelling the nation’s opioid...
April 24th, 2019A hand-held, battery-powered ultrasound scanner called the Butterfly iQ has huge potential in rural Africa, where the nearest X-ray machine may be hours away and the...
April 24th, 2019Older women are being exploited by IVF clinics “trading on hope”, the UK’s fertility watchdog has warned.
The Daily Telegraph quotes Sally Cheshire, chair of...
The number of confirmed cases of measles in the US this year jumped by nearly 20% in the week ending 11 April, in the country’s second-worst outbreak in nearly two...Orthopaedic
The fabella, a small bone in the knee once lost to human evolution, has made a surprising resurgence over the last century. The new findings could help clinicians...
April 24th, 2019Offering universal late pregnancy ultrasounds at 36 weeks’ gestation eliminates undiagnosed breech presentation of babies, lowers the rate of emergency caesarean...
April 24th, 2019
Coloured women in SA have an increased risk for low cognitive functioning, as they present with low education levels and unhealthy lifestyle behaviours, due to a...
Circulation and cellular activity were restored in a pig's brain four hours after its death, a finding that challenges long-held assumptions about the timing and...
April 24th, 2019
The Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) has confirmed the conviction and sentence of five years direct imprisonment for Dr Danie van der Walt, a gynaecologist who caused...
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is usually very effective at suppressing HIV in the body, allowing a person's immune system to recover by preventing the virus from...
