National Vice President for Global Health at the American Cancer Society, Nathan Grey answers important questions pertaining to the recent UN Resolution on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases.
A hearing aid company has warned that the din created by thousands of vuvuzelas could leave some Soccer World Cup fans deaf.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) this week released GLOBOCAN 2008, a new database which provides the most accurate assessment of the global cancer burden. It shows that Cancer will kill more than 13.2 million people a year by 2030, almost double the number who died from the disease in 2008.
The death of a child'€™s mother massively reduces the child'€™s chances of survival to age 10 years, whereas the father'€™s death has a negligible effect, a study on child survival in Bangladesh has found.
Former UNAIDS chief Peter Piot has been appointed Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a research-led postgraduate centre of excellence in public health, international health and tropical medicine.
South Africa'€™s beleaguered Medicines Control Council (MCC) is slowly starting to make inroads into its massive backlog, however it will take a long time to repair the damage done by years of political meddling and incompetence.
The SA Red Cross Air Mercy Service'€™s (AMS) flying doctor initiative is bringing hope to poor patients living in rural KwaZulu-Natal. Lungi Langa of Health-e News Service recently accompanied the health workers on a flying visit to Dundee Hospital.
The HIV and AIDS epidemic is largely responsible for the increase of child mortality rates in South Africa, Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi said at a media briefing early this week. His remarks follow the deaths of six babies at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital and 10 at Natalspruit Hospital on Gauteng'€™s East Rand, recently.
Donors are disengaging from the fight against HIV/AIDS leaving behind millions who are still in dire need of lifesaving treatment in South Africa and other hard-hit Sub-Saharan African countries, warned Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).
Port Elizabeth - Drug shortages and lack of ambulances emerged as some of the most pressing health system issues in the Eastern Cape following a recent meeting of community based organisations.
Drunkenness accounts for many road fatalities and incidents of violent behaviour and illness in South Africa. But that need not be the case. A television drama series currently on SABC TV brings to life the horrific effects of alcohol abuse. The drama also shows that it is possible to drink wisely and to have fun without the use of alcohol.
National Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has told the World Health Assembly that he would apply basic interventions to reduce high mortality rates and ensure that the country meets the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
Humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has expressed concern that a year after it released the report No refuge, Access Denied the situation of refugees in South Africa remains dire and unacceptable.
Western Cape Health MEC Theuns Botha has shuffled the managers at Cape Town'€™s big hospitals.
OPINION: Advertisements proudly carrying the '€œProduct of the Year 2010? logo are beginning to pop up with annoying frequency. I chanced on one such product which, according to the proud winner, was voted product of the year in the supplements category. by Roy Jobson.
