Alcohol can derail efforts to quit smoking
Women trying to quit smoking are at greater risk for relapse when also drinking alcohol, according to a new study.
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2013
Community surprised by good service
LUSIKISIKI. ' Residents from Mevana district in the Eastern Cape were stunned by the level of service they received from the emergency services in the area. This community, who is used to long queues, medicine stock outs and generally poor health services was pleasantly surprised when the emergency services arrived within minutes after they logged a call.
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President Zuma discussed a range of health issues in his State of the Nation Address, specifically National Health Insurance, TB and lifestyle diseases. Read the part of his speech dealing with health here.
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Smokers take more sick days
Smokers take on average three more sick days from work every year than non-smokers, according to a recent review published in the journal Addiction.
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Big Tobacco has firm hold on Africa
The number of smokers in sub-Saharan Africa will double over the next 12 to 13 years unless anti-smoking policies are adopted.
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Village Clinic: Activists demand changes
After several news reports by the OurHealth community journalists, the TAC and SECTION27 visited the new Village Clinic in Lusikisiki last week. "What we found is a disgrace and violation of patients and workers rights," the activists said. Read the full report here.
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Detecting breast cancer in low-income rural areas
Research conducted in rural Sudan has shown that an inexpensive programme of breast cancer screening, undertaken by local volunteers, results in earlier detection of breast cancer, allowing improved treatment and management of the disease.
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Damaged roads affect health services in Vhembe
VHEMBE. ' Heavy rains have caused serious damage to roads in the Vhembe district causing serious problems for health services in the area.
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The failure of cancer medicine?
The Lancet: Feb 4 was World Cancer Day, an opportunity to critically consider progress against cancer. Is it fair to say that the cancer medical community has failed patients living with cancer? This is a harsh statement, but according to respected oncologist, Franco Cavalli, whose Comment leads a discussion about cancer in today's Lancet: "Current strategies to control cancer are demonstrably not working."
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Society Must Act to End All forms of Violence
Media Release: Sonke Gender Justice joins the growing number of South Africans expressing shock and outrage over the horrific gang rape, mutilation, and murder of 17-year old Anene Booysen. 'We send our condolences to her family and to the Bredasdorp community, and call on the authorities to investigate this crime and ensure that the perpetrators are punished to the full extent of the law,' says Sonke's chairperson Sisonke Msimang.
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E Cape patients protest over poor service
LUSIKISIKI. ' Patients and community members from this Eastern Cape village clashed with police during a march to the local office of the Department of Health where they delivered a memorandum of grievances about the health services in the area.
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E Cape DoH should answer to community
LUSIKISIKI. ' Communities in the Eastern Cape are up in arms about the breakdown in health services in this province and activist groups here are pressurising local and provincial departments for answers and solutions.
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Fear over malaria increase in Vhembe
VHEMBE. ' The district municipality in this northern region of Limpopo recently raised concern about the high incidence of malaria in the area.
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Limpopo clinic without immunisation meds for months
VHEMBE. ' A shortage of important medicines at the Tshiombo Clinic in this Limpopo district is posing a serious health risk to the local community.
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New Groundbreakers help educate, develop youth
BETHLEHEM. - Lovelife, the HIV prevention initiative for young people, recently trained 85 new Community Groundbreakers for 2013 in the Free State. The training, held at the Thaba Nchu, Black Mountain Hotel in the Free State, began on 22 January and ended on 1 February.
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