A species of mosquito originally from Asia threatens to put tens of millions of city-dwellers in Africa at higher risk of catching malaria as the invading insect spreads...Weekly Roundup
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) – associated with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) – has been included in the notifiable medical conditions...News Release
The recent recommendation by the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) to freeze or limit member contribution increases to 3.9% for 2021 will bring much relief to already...
September 16th, 2020The popular Intermittent Fasting (IF) diet regimen can work well for weight loss, but many other claims about its benefits remain to be proved, writes Claudia Wallis...
Researchers from the Medical University of Vienna in Austria have hypothetically linked alcohol-induced vitamin B1 deficiency with iron deposits in the brain that could...
September 16th, 2020Between 35%- 70% of post-COVID-19 patients struggle to recover their usual health, writes MedicalBrief. Some answers may be found in data and biological material...
The Maharaj family from Thornville near Pietermaritzburg and the Mateke family from Lesotho are demanding a collective R25m from KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Health MEC Nomagugu...News Release
A senior lecturer and specialist in the dermatology department at the University of the Free State (UFS) has published the very first comprehensive African atlas on skin...
September 16th, 2020Some are spinning the yarn that COVID-19 shows that South African can manage immense healthcare projects. It proves the opposite, writes Financial Mail editor Rob...
As many as 1 in 100 hospitalised COVID-19 patients may experience a pneumothorax, or punctured lung, according to a multicentre observational case series. Pneumothorax...
