Radiation machines fail at Pretoria hospital
Cancer patients at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria are being denied life-saving treatment as radiation machines are out of order due to payment defaults resulting in poor maintenance.
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Al Jazeera faces protest over HIV-positive journalist Living with AIDS # 503
A small group of activists picketed outside the Johannesburg offices of the Qatari news network, Al Jazeera, this week to demand the reinstatement of a South African journalist who was dismissed solely because of his HIV-positive status.
Motsoaledi: laws to make SA healthy
Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi recently highlighted the dangers of smoking, poor diet and other lifestyle factors linked to disease and premature death among South Africans.
Chemo OK during pregnancy
Chemotherapy in pregnant women does not harm the unborn baby, according to new research by Leuven Catholic University in Belgium.
Controversy over lung cancer treatment
Post-operative radiation treatment may not extend the lives of elderly lung cancer patients, according to a new study published in the journal Cancer.
Bara warning bells sounded long ago
Chris Hani Baragwanath (CHB) doctors had issued a warning in December last year already that the suboptimal staffing levels at the hospital were dangerous and endangering the lives of mothers and children.
MDR-TB trials could make a tangible difference for children
A team from Stellenbosch University'€™s Desmond Tutu TB Centre will be monitoring 200 children at the Brooklyn Chest Hospital in Cape Town over the next five years in a potentially groundbreaking trial. By Kim Cloete.
Seeking justice for HIV-positive journalist Living with AIDS # 502
Human rights and civil society groups will picket the Qatari news network, Al Jazeera, next week to call for the reinstatement of a South African journalist who was thrown out of Qatar after it was found that he has HIV.
Foster care for kids after brutal attacks
Thandi* put her two children into foster care this week, finally acknowledging that she could not manage alone as a young, unemployed, single mother.
Huge lab and drug challenges in Gauteng
JOHANNESBURG - Gauteng'€™s public health service has run out of essential lifesaving drugs and its laboratory services are about to collapse.
Smokers neglect oral health
Smokers are more likely to develop oral health problems such as mouth cancers, gum disease and cavities, according to new research by the US Centres of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Police finally arrest child rape suspect
Police arrested the man suspected of raping and slitting the throat of a seven-year-old girl yesterday, following a report in The Star.
HPV vaccination recommended for boys
Last week health officials in the United States urged all boys age 11 to 12 to get a routine vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV) '€“ a common sexually transmitted disease linked to various cancers.
Smoking tough on men’€™s brains
Male smokers suffer more rapid decline in brain function as they age than women and non-smoking men, new research published in the Archives of General Psychiatry suggests. Smokers'€™ cognition is said to decline at the same rate as a non-smoker 10 years older than themselves.
Child raped and left for dead, but police do nothing
Zandile*, a slender seven-year-old, was raped and almost killed in her family'€™s shack in Katlehong on the night of 20 November '€“ allegedly by her mother'€™s ex-boyfriend. After raping her, the man slit her throat in front of her five-year-old brother and left her bleeding and struggling to breathe.