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Coronavirus vaccine likely in 12 months — ARV drug co-inventor Larry Corey
Unlike HIV, the coronavirus is more open to the development of a vaccine and one should be within the grasp of modern science by...
High Court upholds Tiger Brands application for listeriosis information
The Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) has upheld Tiger Brands' bid to compel third parties to provide critical epidemiological information related to the listeriosis class action...
Key factors in elite military training are psychological — US Marine study
The biggest determinants of success in elite military training are not physical factors but psychological factors, according a small study conducted among US Marine...
R4.3m for botched treatment at KZN's Grey's Hospital
A woman who had to have her leg amputated because of medical negligence at Grey’s Hospital, Pietermaritzburg, has been awarded R4.3m in damages, reports The...
Slow-payer Gauteng Health owes R1.2bn to over 800 companies
The Gauteng Health Department owes R1.209bn to 823 companies for more than 90 days even though they are legally required to be paid within...
SA's lockdown alcohol ban assessed
The two-month ban on the sale of liquor brought SA’s alcohol sector to its knees, writes Katharine Child in the Financial Mail. But some...
HIV drug combo shows no benefit in treating COVID-19 patients — Oxford trial
A combination of antiretroviral drugs used to treat HIV had no beneficial effect in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 in a large-scale randomised trial. Reuters...
Survivors need PTSD screening — COVID Trauma Response Working Group guidelines
Patients affected by COVID-19 need to be urgently screened for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and receive regular check-ups for at least a year. The...
What’s the best minimum legal age for cannabis?
Researchers at Memorial University in Canada investigated whether there was a ‘best’ minimal legal age for cannabis use. They settled on 19. Instead of...
Pakistan black market in blood plasma for COVID-19
As coronavirus chaos has enveloped Pakistan, with hospitals overflowing, doctors dying and infections escalating at an unmanageable rate, The Guardian reports that a dangerous...