Health e News
Another day. Another story about state patients dying and suffering. Another distressed letter from desperate health workers. Another call for action and accountability from civil society. Another statement from government. Another day in Gauteng.
The Council for Medical Schemes has just released its latest Annual Report, for the 2011-2012 financial year. Read it here.
Mediclinic has commented on the CMS Annual Report, read their statement here.
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It has been 30 years since South Africa altered the Tuberculosis (TB) treatment guidelines, however the a recent change holds the promise of curing more drug resistant (DR) TB cases and a reduction in infections.
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Water pipe smoking, also known as hubbly bubbly, causes as many respiratory problems as cigarette smoking, according to a new study published in the journal Respirology.
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Researchers find 6.7% of drug-resistant tuberculosis patients have a form of the disease that may take years to treat. Sarah Boseley, health editor guardian.co.uk.
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MEDIA RELEASE: PRETORIA, 31 August 2012 ‘€“ A new policy-orientated web portal on children’€™s rights called Policy Action Network, or PAN: Children, was announced during a panel discussion on children this morning. The portal is a partnership between the United Nations Children’€™s Fund (UNICEF) and the Human Sciences Research Council’€™s (HSRC).
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Breast cancer is more likely to reoccur in overweight women and they are more likely to die of it, according to a new study published in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.
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Heads of states from Southern African have signed a declaration to tackle TB in the mining sector, that should see ex-miners and their families being followed up for treatment.
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Tension between the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and the KwaZulu-Natal health department over the use of a plastic device to circumcise men heightened yesterday following a departmental press conference at which the TAC was described as ignorant and mischievous.
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A compound that has the potential to cure malaria in a single dose has been discovered by researchers from the Universityof Cape Town (UCT).