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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.
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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.
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South Africa’s drug regulatory authority is placing unreasonable hurdles in the way of desperately ill and dying patients with drug-resistant TB (DR TB), stopping them from accessing a new drug that offers their only hope.
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Newborns that have been exposed to nicotine from mothers who smoke or who were exposed to secondhand smoke show poor physiological, sensory, motor and attention responses, according to a recent study published in the journal Early Human Development.
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South African red and white wine is good for the heart. So drink up, says scientists, it’s cheap medicine.
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Cancer kills more than seven million people a year throughout the world. This is more than HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined, and African countries – which carry a large part of the burden – are the least able of all developing countries to cope with the challenges it presents, says a consortium of international cancer organisations.
New research suggests that certain antiretroviral treatment (ART) may increase a person’s risk for heart disease, yet scientists believe that its benefits still far outweigh the harm caused by any of its side effects.
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Cancer is no longer just a disease of western nations with ageing populations, it afflicts the young and the old alike, and is now clearly a rising concern in the poorest countries on earth, who stand to lose millions of lives unless action is taken.
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Around 200-million children, including many in South Africa, fail to meet their full developmental potential because of the debilitating impact of poverty ‘ contributing to a cycle where poor countries remain poor.