Testing at the point of care – where the patient is being treated – saves time that would have been spent waiting for results to come back from a laboratory.
South Africa joins a growing list of countries currently facing an mpox outbreak. It’s a viral infection that spreads between people through direct contact with a person with the disease, or objects and surfaces that have been touched by a person with mpox.
This is part of a broader issue affecting other rehab centres. The Gauteng Care Crisis Committee is in discussions with the department, but no resolution has been reached.
A trial conducted among over 5,300 adolescent girls and young women in South Africa and Uganda, showed zero HIV infections with the injectable lenacapavir, compared to daily oral drugs Descovy and Truvada.
Foreign-trained doctors are accusing the Health Professions Council of South Africa of discrepancies in their board exam results, with a 70% fail rate in recent exams.
Most mpox cases are treated symptomatically, with common symptoms including a painful rash, fever, headache, muscle aches, and swollen glands.
The bogus doctor arrested at Tembisa Tertiary Hospital on Tuesday night was a patient at the facility just last month. Gauteng health department tells Health-e News that a preliminary investigation reveals that the 37-year-old woman was caught in the same…
Extreme weather events like floods, heatwaves, and droughts disrupt daily life, displacing families, destroying infrastructure, and limiting access to essential services such as healthcare and education.
Amathole District Municipality, responsible for water provision, claims significant progress, but many areas, including Mnquma’s ward 28, still lack bulk water infrastructure. Interim measures include drilling boreholes and constructing storage tanks, with the project currently 40% complete.
Twenty-one-year-old Ismail van Schalkwyk says the surgery has changed his life.
Mental healthcare providers and student counselling services should recognise the possible intensity of breakups and consider screening for post-traumatic stress symptoms following a breakup.
Cecilia Makhiwane Tertiary Hospital in Mdantsane, East London, has been operating without dedicated food servers for two years, leading to cleaners taking on the additional responsibility of delivering food to patients.
33.9% of daily smokers say they have a cigarette within the first 5 minutes of waking up.
Recent radiotherapy graduates in South Africa are facing delays in their mandatory year-long community service placement, preventing them from starting their careers.
Denny was a gynaecological oncologist who dedicated decades of her life to cervical cancer research, screening and treatment.
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