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In September last year Karin Collins went to the doctor complaining of pain in her ear and throat. The doctor examined her, found nothing wrong, charged her a consultation fee, and sent her home with some pills. But the pain got worse and Karin returned to the doctor twice just to be told there was nothing wrong with her throat, but there might rather be something wrong with her ‘head’ ‘ the doctor diagnosed a mental disorder, prescribed anti-depressants and admitted her to hospital as a psychiatric patient.
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South African cancer NGOs have joined forces to address shortcomings in the quality of and access to cancer care in South Africa.
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Parents are unaware of the amount of smoke their children are exposed to.
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Women have a 30% better chance of surviving the skin cancer melanoma than men, new research published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology suggests.
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Women who smoke during pregnancy may increase their children’s risk of high-functioning autism, according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
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Antiretroviral therapy reduces the incidence of pre-cancerous cervical lesions in HIV-positive women, South African investigators reported in the online edition of AIDS. Their study also showed that HIV therapy was associated with a regression of pre-existing lesions.
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OPINION: Lifesaving drugs under disputed patents could become more easily available in future depending on the outcome of a case before the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein on Tuesday.
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HIV prevention groups in the United States have hailed the recommendation by an FDA Advisory Committee that emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF/FTC or Truvada) be approved for use as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among sexually active adult men and women.
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HIV activists and health workers are demanding an enquiry into continuing drug shortages, specifically a number of critical antiretrovirals that are central to government’s treatment programme.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) estimates that that more than U$1.6-billion in additional funding will be available over the next two years.
Two of Health-e’s journalists win awards at the Discovery health journalism awards.
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One third of all HIV infected South Africans are accessing antiretroviral therapy (ART), far exceeding the enrolment targets of the country’s National Strategic Plan (NSP) for 2007 to 2011.
