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Screening for lung cancer with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) in current and former smokers has the potential to avert approximately 12 000 lung cancer deaths each year in the United States. That is the conclusion of a new analysis published in CANCER.
Progress in the 10 districts designated as National Health Insurance (NHI) pilots has been slower than expected, and dismal in the Eastern Cape’s OR Tambo district. Speaking last week health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi likened it to building a house, and that they were busy digging the trenches while in the Eastern Cape ‘we are still designing the house’.
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New Zealand plans to follow Australia’s lead and remove all branding, including logos and colours, from tobacco products. However, authorities will wait until a challenge to Australia’s plain packaging law is resolved before implementing theirs.
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Although smokers are expected to pay around R1.50 more per pack of 20 cigarettes, experts believe this increase is insufficient to deter young people from taking up this unhealthy habit.
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MGUNGUNDLOVU. – Imbalenhle community health clinic in KwaZulu Natal recently commemorated Pharmacy Week. The theme for the week was “Toward Quality Care Together”, and it aimed to educate patients about medicine, particularly those on chronic medication.
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LUSIKISIKI. ‘ Community members, health care staff and activists from this Eastern Cape village were up in arms about the poor conditions at the local Village Clinic.
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LUSIKISIKI ‘ Two men, aged 26 and 30, late one night last week forced their way into 10-year-old Nasiphi’s* home in the Bazana location in the Eastern Cape and raped her.
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Two-thirds of women smokers in their 50s to 70s died as a result of smoking and smokers lose at least 10 years of lifespan.
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Banning smoking in public places reduces the risk of babies being born prematurely, according to a large new study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
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Women trying to quit smoking are at greater risk for relapse when also drinking alcohol, according to a new study.
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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The number of smokers in sub-Saharan Africa will double over the next 12 to 13 years unless anti-smoking policies are adopted.