Once-daily combination pills that can treat all genotypes of hepatitis C infection are curing almost everyone who completes a course of treatment, and drop-out rates...
April 24th, 2019Scientists from King College London and Cambridge University have developed a comprehensive catalogue of DNA mutation ‘fingerprints’ that could help doctors pinpoint...
April 24th, 2019
A 25-week-old unborn Johannesburg baby has become the first foetus in Africa to receive anaesthetic and undergo ground-breaking “keyhole” surgery to the spine....
For prevention of tuberculosis (TB) in people with HIV, a single month regimen of rifapentine plus isoniazid was non-inferior to 9 months of isoniazid alone, according...
April 24th, 2019
Two years ago Dr Sue Walter was diagnosed with multiple myeloma – a bone cancer that forced her to stop practising medicine and take up the cause to fight for the...
April 24th, 2019The misdiagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) was almost 20% in a US study, which found that of the people misdiagnosed, many received MS treatment for four years...
South African TB Vaccine Initiative (SATVI) authors Drs Adam Penn-Nicholson, Stanley Kimbung Mbandi, Michelle Fisher, Professors Mark Hatherill and Tom Scriba have...
April 24th, 2019There is now evidence that around 5% of people may wake up on the operating table, according to a report on Wellcome's Mosaic site. Although, due to the amnesiac...
April 24th, 2019Melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer previously thought to affect mainly white people, has been found to pose a significant threat also to black people, found a...
Ten months after he was fired from his job, Ngwelezana Hospital’s head of surgery returned to work on Monday of last week, but there was no place for him. Instead,...
