OurHealth. - A group of grade eight learners from the Paul Roux Intermediate School in the town of Paul Roux in the Free State were visited by a nurse as part of the Integrated School Health Programme of the National Health Insurance (NHI).
The European Union's (EU) revised Tobacco Products Directive ' which was set to place substantial new restrictions on tobacco companies' promotion of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, including banning 'e-cigarettes' ' is dangerously close to stalling.
Government's HIV/AIDS programme is bearing fruit, with fewer deaths now than in 2006. And older people are now dying, not young people in the prime of their lives, according to the Census released yesterday.
Routine breast cancer screening results in a reduced risk of dying from breast cancer but also results in overdiagnosis, according to an independent panel of experts reporting in The Lancet.
Bans on smoking in public places have reduced hospitalisations for heart attacks, strokes and asthma. This is according to a new study published in the journal Circulation.
OurHealth - Nombulelo Manala Lubhelu (45) of Lusikisiki-kwaGqwarhu location has taken the tough decision of declining lifesaving antiretrovirals (ARVs) because she is simply too poor to buy food and does not want to take her medication on an empty stomach.
OPINION: Catherine Tomlinson of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has published an article on Quackdown that gives a detailed response to criticisms of the TAC and MSF by the Cancer Alliance.
Women smokers who quit before the age of 30, can recover and avoid almost all of the increased risk of dying, according to the largest-ever study of the hazards of smoking.
OURHEALTH. - Goso Forest Clinic in Lusikisiki in the OR Tambo district of the Eastern Cape is experiencing a shortage of medicine, including life-saving antiretrovirals (ARVs).
Many smartphone applications are promoting smoking. This is according to a new study published by the journal Tobacco Control.
A response to the HI-Virus in two HIV positive women, which enabled them to make potent antibodies that would kill most of the HIV types from around the world, has provided South African reseachers with potential clues for the development of an AIDS vaccine.
MSF's Malaria prevention pilot projects in Mali and Chad are showing dramatic, promising results with malaria cases and hospitalisations plummeting.
An estimated 20 million people are alive today as a direct result of tuberculosis (TB) care and control, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) Global Tuberculosis Report 2012.
Due to several concerns with the antiretroviral tender, the Treatment Action Campaign and MSF last week sent a joint letter to the Minister of Health Dr Aaron Motsoaledi.
MEDIA RELEASE: An estimated 20 million people are alive today as a direct result of tuberculosis (TB) care and control, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Tuberculosis Report 2012.
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