Health e News
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The first new tuberculosis (TB) treatment in 50 years was recently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), strengthens efforts to make the drug available in South Africa.
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New research found that people who successfully quit smoking experience less anxiety. Although it is generally thought that smoking relieves stress.
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South Africa’€™s Medicines Control Council (MCC) is set to continue denying compassionate use or pre-approval access to a TB drug that for many drug resistant patients remain their last hope.
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A drug offering a last resort for many patients with extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) remains unavailable to desperately ill South Africans as the country’€™s drug regulatory body continues to delay compassionate access. Health-e News Service tells the story of two young South Africans, one who managed to beat the system and accessBedaquiline, the other coming up against a brick wall and fast running out of options to save her life. By Anso Thom, Health-e News Service
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Doctors should talk to school-aged children and teens about the consequences of smoking and how to avoid pressure to start using cigarettes, new guidelines from the US Preventive Services Task Force recommend.
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Even smoking just one cigarette a day increases a woman’€™s risk of sudden cardiac death, according to a new study in the journal Circulation: Arrhythmia & Electrophysiology.
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Lusikisiki ‘€“ Many clinics in the Eastern Cape are without essential drugs, according to HIV/AIDS adherence counsellors in the region.
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Lusikisiki – Prevention is everyone’s responsibility, whether you are HIV positive or negative. This was the key message of a recent campaign against teenage pregnancy held in Gabajana in the Eastern Cape by the Community Media Trust (CMT – Siyayinqoba Beat It), Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), the local AIDS council and other partners.
Umgungundlovu – The Medical Male Circumcision campaign launched in December 2009 by His Majesty King Zwelithini took an impressive turn few months ago when Imbalenhle Clinic embarked on a campaign to educate, inform and perform circumcisions in partnership with local counselors, traditional organisers, school principals and the community at large.
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Ex-Pollsmoor prisoner Dudley Lee’s claim against the Department of Correctional Services after he got TB in prison, was upheld on appeal. Below is a summary of the judgement.
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Ex-prisoner Dudley Lee can now claim against the Department of Correctional Services after he contracted TB in Pollsmoor Prisone, but his claim against the state was dismissed by the Supreme Court, Below is a summary of the judgment.