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Cancer patients at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria are being denied life-saving treatment as radiation machines are out of order due to payment defaults resulting in poor maintenance.
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Post-operative radiation treatment may not extend the lives of elderly lung cancer patients, according to a new study published in the journal Cancer.
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Chemotherapy in pregnant women does not harm the unborn baby, according to new research by Leuven Catholic University in Belgium.
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Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi recently highlighted the dangers of smoking, poor diet and other lifestyle factors linked to disease and premature death among South Africans.
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A team from Stellenbosch University’€™s Desmond Tutu TB Centre will be monitoring 200 children at the Brooklyn Chest Hospital in Cape Town over the next five years in a potentially groundbreaking trial. By Kim Cloete.
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Smokers are more likely to develop oral health problems such as mouth cancers, gum disease and cavities, according to new research by the US Centres of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
South African recipients of money from the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM) have pleaded with the health minister to intervene as they continue to wait for overdue funds.
JOHANNESBURG – Gauteng’€™s public health service has run out of essential lifesaving drugs and its laboratory services are about to collapse.
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Male smokers suffer more rapid decline in brain function as they age than women and non-smoking men, new research published in the Archives of General Psychiatry suggests. Smokers’€™ cognition is said to decline at the same rate as a non-smoker 10 years older than themselves.
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Last week health officials in the United States urged all boys age 11 to 12 to get a routine vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV) ‘€“ a common sexually transmitted disease linked to various cancers.
There has been an increase in newborn baby deaths and newborns with brain damage at Chris Hani Baragwanath (CHB) Hospital’€™s labour ward since November, including two avoidable stillbirths, as a staffing crisis linked to non-payment of nursing agencies hit the academic hospital.
The Southern African HIV Clinicians Society has appointed a new President, Dr Francesca Conradie.