Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline LLC (GSK) agreed to plead guilty and to pay $3 billion to resolve its criminal and civil liability arising from the company's unlawful promotion of certain prescription drugs, its failure to report certain safety data, and its civil liability for alleged false price reporting practices, the US Justice Department announced. Read the full US Justice Department statement here
In South Africa and across Africa, HIV continues to prey on women, sex workers and men who have sex with men. It is clear that to end the HIV epidemic, we must protect and support these groups.By Festus Mogae and Stephen Lewis
Decades of poor medical and veterinary antibiotic prescribing and a lack of regard for the practice of infection prevention and control(IPC) in our hospitals have left South Africa, like the rest of the international community, on the brink of a return to an era of untreatable bacterial infection.
OPINION: 'The magnitude of the HIV/AIDS challenge facing the country calls for a concerted, co-ordinated and co-operative national effort in which government in each of its three spheres and the panoply of resources and skills of civil society are marshalled, inspired and led. This can only be achieved if there is proper communication, especially by government.' By Brian Honermann and Mark Heywood
Twenty-three years after a South African Medical Journal article called for a ban on tobacco advertising, ample evidence indicates that the severe public health burden from hazardous and harmful use of alcohol in South Africa warrants the same drastic action.
LONDON, 29 June 2012 (IRIN) - Almost one in every five deaths worldwide occurs as a result of infection, but many bacterial illnesses will become incurable as the efficacy of current antibiotic drugs wanes, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Women who exercise moderately can significantly cut their risk of breast cancer, according to a new report in Cancer. However, weight gain may undermine the benefits of exercise
Smoking have long been associated with cancers of the lung, mouth and throat, among others, but now it appears that it might also increase your risk of a certain type of skin cancer.
The Gauteng Health Department has warned protesting HIV counsellors and home-based care-givers that there will be consequences if they don't return to work immediately. But it also admits it might not be able to pay them on time if they do.
During a recent visit to the Daveyton Main Clinic, on Gauteng's East Rand, Ayanda Mkhwanazi of Health-e News Service, found patients complaining of appalling staff attitudes, which hinder effective health service delivery.
Some 7 500 HIV counsellors and community health care workers in Gauteng have downed tools after not being paid for months.
It is well-known that secondhand smoke increases the risk of heart disease and lung cancer, but research now found that people exposed to secondhand smoke are more likely to die of stroke or emphysema than those who were not exposed.
A court challenge by British American Tobacco (Batsa) on the advertising ban of its products in South Africa was dismissed by the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) yesterday.
Nightshift work may increase a woman's chances of developing breast cancer by 30 percent, according to a new study published in the International Journal of Cancer.
Graphic warnings on cigarette packs are more likely to get smokers thinking about the health risks associated with their habit than packs with only text warnings. This is according to a new study published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine.
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