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Babies born to mothers in sub-Saharan who are overweight or obese are significantly more likely to die in the first two days after their birth, according to new research.
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The Constitutional Court has denied British American Tobacco South Africa (BATSA) permission to appeal a court ban on advertising among and recruiting young people to the deadly habit.
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Tobacco farming is harmful to the environment and to the farm workers with multinational tobacco companies contributing to the problem by exploiting local farmers, new research has revealed.
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Chemotherapy, used to treat cancer, can damage healthy cells causing them to secrete a protein that sustains tumour growth and resistance to further treatment, according to a study published in the journal Nature Medicine.
Certain patients living the Western Cape and making use of public health services will be able to lodge their complaints via a system which enables patients to call, text or e-mail a complaint with a same-day response.
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Cancer patients with symptoms of depression have shorter survival times than those showing no sign of depression, according to a new study published in the journal PLoS ONE.
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New evidence proving the existence of cancer stem cells may bring an end to the long-standing debate in the scientific community about how tumours grow.
A South African AIDS activist and two of the country’s top HIV doctors have tackled a well-respected journalist and author regarding what they believe are a number of errors regarding the country’s epidemic and the benefits of ARVs. By Nathan Geffen, Francois Venter and Francesca Conradie
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A number of roleplayers have made their voices heard since the publication of the new smoking regulations that will ban all indoor smoking in public places and restrict smoking in public outdoor areas.
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Simple human values may be as important for dying cancer patients as the latest medical treatment.
Activists met with new Gauteng Health MEC Hope Papo this week. Read their statement here.
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Two sessions at the 19th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) in Washington looked at the way injecting drug use, recreational drug use and unsafe sex interlock to multiply HIV risk, and how new outbreaks of injecting drug use continue to spawn localised HIV epidemics. Read more here.