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The babies of breast cancer patients who undergo chemotherapy while pregnant do not appear to be at higher risk of complications, according to an article published in The Lancet Oncology.
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Although new research illustrates alarming trends in tobacco use in many parts of the world local experts believe that South Africa’s tobacco legislation has been effective.
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The ruling this week by Australia’s high court to uphold its government’s right to introduce ‘plain packaging’ for tobacco products is a landmark event for global health. With the world’s eyes watching this decision, the court struck down a challenge from the biggest cigarette manufacturers around the globe.By John R. Seffrin.
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In a landmark ruling, which could potentially strengthen the move to similar legislation in South Africa, the Australian high court dismissed the tobacco industry’s challenge to the ‘plain packaging law’.
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Since the emergence of TB and HIV co-infections, public health officials have been asking the same questions’how do we screen for, diagnose, and prevent TB in people living with HIV? An article tries to answer this question.
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A heart condition, which can be treated with a simple antibiotic, remains the leading cause of cardiac disease in children on the African continent.
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The Treatment Action Campaign and Médecins Sans Frontières are calling on government to included fixed dose combination drugs in the new antiretroviral tender. This demand is not new, but for a long time the Medicines Control Council failed to register these drugs making them unavailable for inclusion in the tender. Several FDCs have now been registered. Read the TAC/MSF statement here.
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SA government policy gets support from researchers at UCT and University of East Anglia, who identify nurses as preferred health providers for ART programmes.
SECTION27has called for national intervention in the Gauteng health department and needs-based budgeting to ensure ‘everyone has a right of access to health care services’.
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New research, published in the scientific journal Addiction, shows that plain cigarette packaging (standard packages without attractive designs and imagery) may help to draw the attention of some adolescent smokers to the health warnings on the package. If so, this may in turn deter young smokers from continuing to smoke.
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People who take aspirin daily may not only be helping their hearts, but also reducing their odds of dying from cancer, according to American Cancer Society researchers.
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The price of a rapid diagnostic test, which slashes the time to reach a diagnosis for the most common drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis, has almost been halved – including in South Africa.