On-screen smoking may prompt kids to smoke
Young people are more likely to start smoking if they watch a lot of movies with cigarette-smoking characters, new research published in the journal Pediatrics suggest.
16 July 2012
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New smoking law under attack
A 'vicious assault on people's lifestyle choices' by 'Nicotine nazi's' ' that is how Leon Louw, executive director for the Free Market Foundation (FMF) described the new anti-smoking laws that will place severe restrictions on the areas where smoking are allowed.
Origin cells of cervical cancer discovered
Researchers have found the cells at the origin of cervical cancer, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This discovery may offer new ways to prevent and treat the disease.
SA Govt should tackle Big Food companies
The South African government should develop a plan to make healthy foods such as fruit, vegetables, and whole grain cereals more available, affordable, and acceptable, and non-essential, high-calorie, nutrient-poor products, including soft drinks and some packaged foods and snacks, less available, more costly, and less appealing to the South African population.
SA should prepare for cancer ‘explosion’: Motsoaledi
The health care system must gear itself for an "explosion" of cancer and other non-communicable diseases, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said during a recent visit to the iThemba Labs in Cape Town.