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World Diabetes Day: ‘Education urgently needed’
Ndivhuwo Mukwevho
As the world marks World Diabetes Day today, the South African Diabetes Alliance has called for an urgent diabetes education programme. This will help ensure people living with the chronic illness receive the best possible care and live long and healthy lives. This year’s theme is Access to Diabetes
More crosses than ticks in latest KZN Ritshidze report
Lilita Gcwabe
 Although public healthcare in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) still has a long way to go, there are glimmers of hope for the province, as revealed in the latest edition of the Ritshidze report. At least 11 key issues were examined in the second edition of the Ritshidze State of Health report.
Seeing flames? How to avoid year-end burnout
Lilita Gcwabe
  Work exhaustion is common at the end of the year. In South Africa, these stress levels and feeling burned out have increased among employees since June this year. This is according to the Global State of the Workplace report, which found that 43% of employees were experiencing high-stress
Bara surgery backlog: Father at a loss for words
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A 17-year-old boy is one of just over 11 000 patients on the surgery waiting list at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, known as Bara, in Soweto after his appointment was postponed several times. The father of Sanele Qwabe* said that his son had developed tissues on his nipples
MDR-TB STREAM trial delivers promising results
Ndivhuwo Mukwevho
The world’s largest clinical trial for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has found that the two new shortened treatment regimens are safe and effective. The newly published trial result also indicates lower patient direct costs. The long-awaited results from stage 2 of the STREAM randomised clinical trial were released in The Lancet
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