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A survey of more than 1000 primary-care doctors in the United States suggests the vast majority have little knowledge about the long-term side effects of chemotherapy.
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Scientists have discovered that a simple blood test could lead to better diagnosis and treatment for early-stage breast cancer patients, according to an article published online first in The Lancet Oncology.
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Runners for Health, a group of runners from the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), will be participating in this year’s Comrades Marathon. The annual 89 km race, running between Pietermaritzburg and Durban, will take place on Sunday. Read here why they describe it as their biggest challenge yet.
SECTION27 released a statement detailing the financial crisis in the Eastern Cape health department which is threatening to collapse. It calls on the national health department to urgently intervene, reminding it that it has a duty to do so.
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Today (Thursday 31 May) is World No Tobacco Day, a World Health Organisation (WHO) initiative aimed at highlighting issues around the use of tobacco products. This year, the WHO has selected “tobacco industry interference” as the theme for the day in an effort to expose and counter the tobacco industry’s ‘brazen and increasingly aggressive attempts’ to undermine anti-tobacco efforts.
Almost 5 000 women died while pregnant or within 42 days of giving birth in South Africa between 2008 and 2010, more than in any of the previous years.
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Chest and cancer doctors are calling for lung cancer screening in older people with a history of smoking a pack or more a day. But at the same time they also highlight the potential harms of screening, including a high risk of false-positive tests.
As many young women are now developing cervical cancer and more are at risk of cancer of the cervix because of HIV infection, new and simpler methods of diagnosis are needed. Now, scientists have discovered that vinegar is useful in diagnosing cervical cancer.
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Smoking increases the risk of oral cancer (OC) up to five times and alcohol can elevate the risk by nine times, according to the South African Dental Association (SADA).
‘Solidarity for Survival’ is an exhibition that shows the difficult living conditions that African foreign nationals who have come to seek refuge in South Africa endure. It is currently showing at Constitution Hill, in Johannesburg. Many of the difficulties these migrants face include the lack of access to health care.
Eastern Cape rural health is on the brink of collapse as a moratorium on the appointment of doctors and nurses is leading to clinics and hospitals having to shoulder the burden of delivering healthcare without staff.