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Anne Merriman, ‘Mother of palliative care’ in Uganda, dies at 90
A medical doctor and former nun, Anne Merriman found an affordable way to expand palliative care in the developing world, bringing pain relief to...
Vitamin D may slow cells’ ageing – Harvard study
Recent research suggests vitamin D supplements may help prevent the loss of telomeres, DNA sequences that shrink with ageing, but the scientists said the...
NHI’s biggest risk is not policy – it’s infrastructure
The current state – and deterioration of – South African public health facilities is well documented, and yet without urgent investment in infrastructure, the...
Top medical aid schemes guilty of racial bias, inquiry finds
Medical aid schemes and the Board of Healthcare Funders have rejected damning findings from a long-awaited inquiry into racial discrimination and profiling against black...
Early puberty tied to elevated mental health risk – German cohort study
German researchers have suggested that patients diagnosed with central precocious puberty (CPP) – in which physical changes related to pubertal development occur earlier than usual –...
Hungarian study challenges 'pet effect' on human well-being
Locked-down Hungarians who gained or lost pets saw almost no lasting shift in mood or loneliness during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns, according to researchers,...
Political battle over Discovery Medical Scheme trustee election
There was such a flurry of electioneering by nominees vying for three trustee positions becoming vacant this year at Discovery Health Medical Scheme that...
Judge scathing of ‘expert’ evidence in child’s brain injury case
Medical experts who concluded – merely by looking at photographs – that a child had suffered brain injuries after a car accident, came under...
Jobless Cuban-trained doctors desperate for posts
Two dozen young doctors are sitting at home unemployed after completing their training – funded by the Free State government through the Nelson Mandela-Fidel Castro...
UK police arrest hospital bosses for gross negligence manslaughter
Three senior hospital managers have been arrested by British police on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter as part of investigations into nurse Lucy Letby,...