Doctors cure cancer with measles
Doctors have cured a woman with advanced blood cancer by injecting her with the measles virus, the US non-profit Mayo Clinic recently announced.
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Shots in the Dark? A look at vaccines in the Eastern Cape
As part of a national Health-e investigation, we travel to the Eastern Cape to explore vaccine stock-outs and storage problems - and watch what one doctor is doing to help rural mums.
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Slideshow: Vaccination in South Africa
Stock-outs and poor vaccine storage stand between life-saving immunizations and South African children. Take a look as Health-e explores the issue from Pretoria to the Eastern Cape.
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Vaccinations are everyone’s business
After a third of the children at Matilda Mothapo’s crèche in Soshanguve outside of Pretoria developed measles, Mothapo said she learned just how important childhood vaccinations are.
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Shots in the dark? Vaccinations in South Africa
A national Health-e investigation of one of the most basic services – childhood vaccinations – found vaccine stock-outs in clinics and measles cases in major cities.
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Shots in the dark? Snapshots of Health-e investigation
From new measles cases to vaccine stock-outs, here is a snapshot of what a Health-e News Investigation found from Gauteng to Mpumalanga.
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An old Arabic saying cautions, “Count your children after the measles has passed.”
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