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Most medical problems can be controlled through early detection and treatment. Looking after your health means going for regular screening tests, even when you feel fine.
The evidence that voluntary medical male circumcision reduces the risk of a heterosexual man contracting HIV in high prevalence areas is beyond reasonable doubt.
Scientists have pinpointed an invaluable indicator of men’s health: the penis.
CAPE TOWN ‘ Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi is gearing up for several court battles as he aims to regulate certain aspects of the food and other private sector industries driving poor health.
CAPE TOWN – There is going to be a ‘serious fight to get what we want in our health system’ and while the National Health Insurance (NHI) Green Paper was steering matters in the right direction health care delivery can’t go from ‘horrible to wonderful’ overnight, health economist Professor Di McIntyre cautioned.
CAPE TOWN – South Africa needs to urgently look to countries such as Rwanda, Thailand and Brazil, where they have employed community health workers (CHWs) to deliver a range of primary health care services that dramatically reduced mortality, public health expert Professor David Sanders told the National Health Assembly (NHA).
CAPE TOWN ‘ Health and social justice activists as well as health ministers and key policy makers from across the world will meet in Cape Town this week to address the drivers of inequity which fundamentally impact on the health of the poor.
Health-e’s documentary on the National Health Insurance (NHI),focusing on the re-engineering of primary healthcare to meet the health needs of the country, is being broadcast this Thursday on “Cutting Edge”, SABC 1 at 9.30pm.
OPINION: ‘The magnitude of the HIV/AIDS challenge facing the country calls for a concerted, co-ordinated and co-operative national effort in which government in each of its three spheres and the panoply of resources and skills of civil society are marshalled, inspired and led. This can only be achieved if there is proper communication, especially by government.’ By Brian Honermann and Mark Heywood
Twenty-three years after a South African Medical Journal article called for a ban on tobacco advertising, ample evidence indicates that the severe public health burden from hazardous and harmful use of alcohol in South Africa warrants the same drastic action.
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Decades of poor medical and veterinary antibiotic prescribing and a lack of regard for the practice of infection prevention and control(IPC) in our hospitals have left South Africa, like the rest of the international community, on the brink of a return to an era of untreatable bacterial infection.
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Women who exercise moderately can significantly cut their risk of breast cancer, according to a new report in Cancer. However, weight gain may undermine the benefits of exercise