Menthol cigarettes are more dangerous than regular cigarettes. This is according to the results of a scientific review by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States, which, in light of these findings want to tighten regulation of…
The Local Aids Council (LAC) of the Msukaligwa was resurrected this month in response to the high prevalence of HIV-infection in the Gert Sibande district.
Health-e investigate the real life implications of Sugar Daddy relationships on the lives of young South African women.
While government grapples with how to accommodate new World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines on HIV treatment, which mean over a million extra people are immediately eligible for antiretroviral medicine, a leading AIDS expert has warned that these may be a “distraction”.
Smoking and drinking often go hand in hand, but this combination may wreak havoc on a person's mental health, according to a new study, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry.
You may be fooling yourself if you think that reducing the number of cigarettes you smoke will protect you from the health risks caused by smoking, new research published in the American Journal of Epidemiology suggest. For the study, researchers from…
Smokers who've received a clean bill of health from their doctor may think that cigarettes haven't harmed their lungs. However, new research shows that even smokers who seem healthy have damaged airway cells, with characteristics similar to cells found in aggressive lung cancer.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently launched the WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2013, that reports about the extent and character of the tobacco epidemic and measures to stop it.
As many as 7.4 million premature deaths will have be prevented by 2050 thanks to tobacco control measures put in place in 41 countries between 2007 and 2010, according to new research published in the Bulletin of the World Health…
Certain tobacco control strategies are more effective than others at reducing deaths caused by heart disease in low- and middle-income countries, says a new study published in PLOS Medicine.
More than fifty regular patients at the Village Clinic in the OR Tambo District had a sit-in at the clinic when they were told that their Efavirenz tablets – an anti-retroviral drug for HIV-positive patients – was not available.
Smokers and single men are more likely to acquire cancer-causing oral human papillomavirus (HPV), according to new research published in The Lancet. HPV infection is known to cause virtually all cervical cancers, most anal cancers and some genital cancers. It…
The notorious drug known as nyaope or whoonga has now made its way to small towns like Ermelo and it is currently consuming many lives of young people in this town.
Sibongile Mkhonto (27) shares her story of being diagnosed with TB.
The clinics around Mabopane and Winterveld areas are out of stock of the antiretroviral medicine, lamivudine (also known as 3TC).
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