Sugar drinks increase diabetes risk by 22% – Study
MEDIA RELEASE: Drinking one (or one extra)* 336ml serving size of sugar-sweetened soft drink a day can be enough to increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 22%, a new study suggests.
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H7N9: No evidence of person-to-person transmission
MEDIA RELEASE: Scientists in China have confirmed for the first time that the influenza A H7N9 virus has transmitted from birds—specifically, chicken at a wet poultry market—to humans, according to an Article published Online First in The Lancet. Since its…
6-year-old gang raped in Limpopo
VHEMBE. – With news about the gruesome rape and murder of Anene Booysen still fresh in the country’s psyche, news about the gang rape of a six-year-old girl shook the community of Mulodi Village in Limpopo where the crime took place.
Long lines, poor service at Kgabo Health Centre
TSHWANE. - The staff and patients at Kgabo Health Centre in Winterveld are unhappy with the conditions at the facility ' the staff complain that do not receive support from the regional office while patients are concerned about the long waiting periods.
Wits Faculty of Health Science Professor receives South Africa’s highest honour
MEDIA RELEASE: On the 27th April 2013 President Jacob Zuma honoured Wits Faculty of Health Sciences Professor Glenda Gray with South Africa's highest honour - the Order of Mapungubwe - for her life-saving research focusing on the mother to child transmission of HIV.
New pills bring new hope
LUSIKISIKI. - All twelve clinics in the Qaukeni sub-district in the Eastern Cape are dispensing the new fixed dose combination pill (FDC) to HIV patients. This new pill is a triple antiretroviral that is believed to improve adherence as it only needs to be taken once a day. The fact that ARV treatment now consist of just one tablet will make it easier to dispense and prescribe, and make ordering and monitoring stock supply easier for clinics and depots.
SMS reminders help HIV patients take meds
VHEMBE. - The clinic management and staff at Matavhela clinic came up with a strategy to help their HIV/AIDS patients take their antiretrovirals (ARVs) regularly.
40% of W Cape high school kids smoke
A third of high school pupils in the Western Cape are using tobacco, alcohol, and dagga, a survey by the Medical Research Council (MRC) revealed.
H7N9: No evidence of person-to-person transmission
MEDIA RELEASE: Scientists in China have confirmed for the first time that the influenza A H7N9 virus has transmitted from birds'specifically, chicken at a wet poultry market'to humans, according to an Article published Online First in The Lancet.
E-cigarettes have to comply with medicines law
The Medicines Control Council (MCC) has refuted claims by electronic cigarette distributor Twisp that it does not have to comply with medicine-related laws, confirming that the product is subject to medical scheduling and can only be sold at pharmacies.
No immunisation at Limpopo clinics, hospitals
THOHOYANDOU. - The Department of Health and Social Development in Limpopo is urging everyone who was turned away from clinics and hospitals in the region because of medicine stock outs to go back and get assistance.
Stop smoking to reduce risk of pneumonia in HIV+
HIV-positive smokers are at high risk of contracting bacterial pneumonia - a common and serious lung infection in people living with HIV - compared to their non-smoking counterparts.
World Malaria Day: Gold speeds up malaria diagnosis
It's hard to imagine that gold is more than a rich person's trinket and actually plays a role in healthcare.
But tiny nano-particles of gold are being used in rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) that can identify malaria in 20 minutes, according to the World Gold Council.
Malaria is not someone else’s problem, it is everyone’s
MEDIA RELEASE: This is why the World Health Organization (WHO) has launched its 'Invest in the future. Defeat malaria' campaign, says Dr Pete Vincent of Netcare Travel Clinics and Medicross Family Medical and Dental Centres. Read more here.
Heavy rain affected health services
LUSIKISIKI. ' Parts of the St Elizabeth hospital here were flooded during the heavy rain the Eastern Cape experienced recently.