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What’s driving up medical inflation?
Lifestyle diseases and excessive consultant control are contributors to medical inflation – apart from poor regulatory control of the private sector, which leads to...
Racial inequities in health persist in SA
Thirty years after the end of apartheid, striking inequities in health persist between racial groups in South Africa, even after accounting for socio-economic indicators.
Writing...
Hard lesson from self-diagnosis
Dismissing stomach cramps as a bug, Tony Leon learnt the hard way the risk of self-diagnosing.
He writes, in News24:
During the apogee of apartheid in...
Does what you eat affect your brain health?
Researchers, who have long been interested in finding out what diets optimise brain function, which is affected by dietary patterns and food choices, have...
Patients’ skin bacteria tied to post-surgery infections – US study
Surgical infections might be caused by bacteria that already live on your skin, rather than via external contamination, suggests a study of more than...
No benefits from 'outdated' beta-blockers after heart attack
Swedish researchers have described as outdated the standard practice of prescribing beta-blockers after a heart attack to lessen the risk of a future cardiovascular...
Post-birth esketamine slashes depression by three quarters – Chinese study
Scientists recently found that a single dose of 0.2 mg/kg of esketamine soon after childbirth reduced major depressive events among women with prenatal depressive...
Ovarian cycle regulated by circadian rhythm – French-US study
A team of reproductive researchers affiliated with several institutions in France and the US has found that the timing of monthly ovarian cycles is...
Resignation of SAMJ editor under the spotlight
The resignation of the editor of the South African Medical Journal – relating to an opinion piece on the war in Gaza – has...
SA and J&J drawn into toxic cough mixture scandal
South Africa and J&J has become entangled in one of the world's worst wave of poisoning from oral medication with the recall of a...