Health e News
Smoke-free policies are reducing heart disease related to smoke exposure, the prevalence of smoking in adults and the exposure of both adults and children to second-hand smoke.
- ///News
In a breakthrough which will have a major impact on curbing the spread of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in developing countries, including South Africa, the endemic disease will in future be diagnosed within a day and not the standard two to three months, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced.
Hope is at hand for South African women unable to afford a new vaccine to combat cervical cancer as the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI Alliance) has announced it plans to get the vaccine to high burden populations.
Political interference is increasingly making it difficult for public service health professionals to provide the best quality care to patients. In ‘Dare to care’, a book to be published next month, Dr Thys von Mollendorff, gives a personal account of how deadly this interference can be.
- ///News
The Department of Health has awarded tenders valued at over R3-billion for the procurement of antiretroviral drugs over the next two years.
Treasury officials are sent to hospital to investigate donor funds for dual therapy as KwaZulu-Natal MEC intensifies her campaign against Manguzi Hospital.
- ///News
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has vowed to continue using the courts to protect those living with HIV. The Cape Town High Court recently ruled in its favor to stop Dr Matthias Rath from conducting unauthorized clinical trials and promoting his multivitamins to people living with AIDS.
- ///News
The Cape High Court’s ruling against controversial German vitamin salesman Dr Matthias Rath, last week, is the first decisive action against charlatans who claim they can cure AIDS. This judgement should set a precedent for action against many others.
- ///Health
Lobby groups are concerned about the high numbers of women who die of breast cancer every year in South Africa, despite the fact that the disease is one of the most curable cancers if detected early.
- ///News
The health department will not appeal Friday’s Cape High Court judgment which ruled that German vitamin seller Matthias Rath’s scientific trials were illegal.
Two bills recently tabled in Parliament are set to shake up the private hospital industry and centralise decision-making over hospital tariffs as well as the regulation of new medicines and scientific trials within the health minister’s office.
- ///Health
The Cape High Court landed the final nail in the coffin of vitamin salesman Matthias Rath’s South African operations and delivered a blow to organisations peddling untested remedies when it ruled that the German doctor’s clinical trials were unlawful.