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Anne Merriman, ‘Mother of palliative care’ in Uganda, dies at 90


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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Three senior hospital managers have been arrested by British police on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter as part of investigations into nurse Lucy Letby,...