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Festive bulge: scientists offer advice on how to beat overeating
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Christmas and New Year are holidays with dietary excesses that many of us cannot control. This often leads to the “festive bulge”. As the holidays approach, could there be a recipe to contain this weight gain and pave the way to sustainable nutrition-based health at the same time? There’s
Stem cell donors: Joy for one family, agony for the other
Lilita Gcwabe
Over one year since the Mtengwane and Swanepoel families called on South Africans to register to become stem cell donors, only one of the two families had their prayers answered. The other family is still clinging to hope. Bomikazi Mtengwane has been looking for a donor for her husband
Covid-19 SA: Additional booster jabs for high-risk people
Ndivhuwo Mukwevho
An additional Covid-19 vaccine booster will soon be available to immunocompromised South Africans. The health ministry plans to provide this extra booster at least six months after the last jab. “This next booster is a voluntary dose. It is not part of a community campaign,” said Health Ministry spokesperson
Copper pipe theft closes Bara ICU
Bibi-Aisha Wadvalla
The main intensive care unit at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital was forced to shut down on Monday after a copper pipe that supplies oxygen to the ward was stolen. In a statement, the Gauteng Health Department said the theft endangered the lives of 24 patients in the main ICU
Pregnant women forced to sleep on FS hospital floors
Molefi Sompane
The Free State has been dealt another huge blow after it emerged that 13 pregnant women were forced to sleep on floors in the antenatal ward at the Pelonomi Regional Hospital in Bloemfontein. When Thembi Mgababa went to give birth at Pelonomi, she never thought she’d have to lie
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