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Each year around a thousand young women addicted to crystal methamphetamine, or tik, give birth to so-called tik babies in Cape Town.
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Africa is a major target for tobacco industry sales and marketing, warned the American Cancer Society (ACS) and World Lung Foundation at the launch of French version of latest Tobacco Atlas. in Dakar Senegal recently.
The head of the ailing Gauteng Health Department, Dr Nomonde Xundu, is reported to have requested that she be relieved of her duties. Her move is seen as an admission of her failure to manage the distressed provincial Health Department. But Xundu denies any reports that she is leaving.
Story by Mtshana Mvlisi, an OurHealth Citizen Journalist based in the OR Tambo District in the Eastern Cape.
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Governments around the world are leaving hundreds of millions of cancer patients to suffer needlessly because of their failure to ensure adequate access to pain-relieving drugs, a new international survey reveals.
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Films that feature characters with cancer have become a familiar sight for movie-goers in recent years, but they rarely portray the patient’s chances of survival accurately, according to Italian researchers.
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People living with HIV/AIDS are at an increased risk of developing oesophageal and stomach cancer as well as non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHLs), according to a new study published in the journal Gastroenterology.
CAPE TOWN ‘ South Africa cannot afford to shy away from the uncomfortable truth that poor regulatory control of private healthcare and weak financing was punishing the poor, Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi told a meeting of private hospitals yesterday.
Health-e News Service is delighted to have been selected as one of 40 finalists in the inaugural $1-million African News Innovation Challenge (ANIC).’¨’¨
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‘Doctor, am I going to die?’ It is a question no doctor enjoys answering, especially when is involves an 11-year old. Yet, this is something Dr Lindsay Farrant and her colleagues from the Big Shoes Foundation (an organisation serving the palliative needs of children) in Cape Town have to discuss with young patients and their families almost every day.
CAPE TOWN – A landmark daily janitorial service for communal toilets in the City’s informal settlements – launched with great fanfare in May by Mayor Patricia de Lille – has come to a grinding halt.
‘Many people think that you go to hospice to die, but hospice is not about death at all, it is about preserving the quality of life,’ said former Bafana Bafana captain, Lucas Radebe.