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Lights back on at Johannesburg hospitals after two-day outage
Electricity was restored to the Charlotte Maxeke Hospital on Tuesday, two days after a power failure at a CBD substation that provides power to...
WHO prequalifies new oral cholera vaccine
The World Health Organisation has prequalified a new oral vaccine for cholera, the inactivated Euvichol-S having a similar efficacy to existing vaccines but being...
US anaesthesiologist faces 190 years after IV bag-tampering deaths
A Dallas anaesthesiologist could be looking at 190 years behind bars after being convicted last week of injecting a nerve-blocking agent and other drugs...
Higher risk for second breast cancer in some women – US cohort study
A recent study suggests that younger breast cancer survivors with a germline pathogenic variant or those with an initial diagnosis of in situ vs...
Swedish legal gender-change age now 16
After six hours of deliberation, Sweden’s Parliament has passed a law lowering the minimum age to legally change gender from 18 to 16 and...
Pfizer and Moderna go head-to-head over Covid jab patents
The latest leg of a global legal battle began in Britain on Tuesday when Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech asked the court to...
The missing link between junk food diets and cancer
Scientists believe they have uncovered a missing link between how eating junk food increases the risk of cancer, after a study looked at the effect of methylglyoxal...
Time to recognise strengths of African-based medical education
The unique strengths of African medical graduates and institutions, where more advanced competencies need to be taught to generalist clinicians, often early in training,...
Millions of girls in Africa will miss HPV shots this year
Nearly 1.5m teenage girls in some of the world’s poorest countries will miss the chance to be protected from cervical cancer because pharmaceutical company...
Adult vaccine programmes give 19x returns, finds world report
A first-of-its-kind study has underscored the dual benefits of adult immunisation programmes, with the experts concluding that these can deliver a return of up to...