While you were sleeping
An anaesthetist is not only responsible for putting you to sleep before surgery - they also have to keep you alive during and 24-hours after an operation.
Wilma Stassen
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Slideshow: A day in the life of a anaesthesiologist
Health-e News spent a day with an anaesthesiologist to find out exactly what they do while you’re sleeping to earn their R3000 p/h paycheck.
TB, HIV killing country’s youth
Tuberculosis (TB), followed by HIV, remain the leading killers of South African youth, according to Statistics South Africa’s (Stats SA) latest report on death and sickness among young people released yesterday (Monday)
Noakes hearing postponed on technicality
Banting guru, Tim Noakes' hearing with the Health Professions Council of South Africa has been postponed until November.
SA performs world’s first cost-effective skin transplant
Burns survivors have new hope after a Stellenbosch doctor performed the first successful skin culture transplant using skin “grown” with a novel technique that cost a fraction of the price of other skin culturing procedures.
Many can’t afford a healthy diet
The Heart and Stroke Foundation has urged South Africans to check their blood pressure readings and follow a healthy diet – but poverty and the high food prices put a healthy diet out of reach of many people in the country.
Dieticians warn against Banting for baby
Parents raising children on the low carbohydrate, high fat Banting diet may be exposing kids to health risks, including nutritional deficiencies, gall bladder problems, kidney stones and even heart problems.
Sex in the Mother City under the spotlight
Almost a quarter of Capetonians admit to starting a new relationship while still being in a relationship with someone else, according to a new study looking at sex in the Mother City.
No rise in smuggling when cigarette branding is removed
Research conducted in Sydney and recently presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Thoracic Society for Australia and New Zealand found no increase in the proportion of illegal cigarettes since 2012 when Australia became the first country to introduce…
South Africa: A fat, hungry nation
Food is a big issue in South Africa – we’re the fattest country in sub-Saharan Africa and one of the 20 fattest countries in the world. At the same time, one in every four South Africans regularly go hungry
Is there a place for dagga in medicine?
Dagga may have some medicinal qualities, but are the benefits of legalising it worthwhile?
Cancer not caused by ‘bad luck’
Most cancers are caused by lifestyle and environmental factors and not “bad luck” as a recent report suggests. On World Cancer Day, we unpack the causes of cancer.