Scientists have identified two simple body measurements that together are linked to nearly double the risk of death, and ...
Only one of the 13 public hospitals treating childhood cancer in South Africa has a blood bank on site, and just three have transplant beds. These shocking findings, from the PRoFILE facility survey ...
South Africa cannot sustainably reduce its medico-legal burden without reducing the underlying failures that generate ...
Firms are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to convince US doctors to prescribe GLP-1 drugs, with most medical specialists apparently seeing nothing wrong with this, reports The Washington Post ...
Community unrest and the liquidation of a contractor have been blamed for further delays to the decade-long construction of the (new) Mapulaneng Regional Hospital in Mpumalanga, which was supposed to ...
The South African Dental Technicians Council (SADTC) is expected to consider Cape Peninsula University of Technology’s (CPUT) representations before deciding whether to forge ahead with a request to ...
As GLP-1 drugs reach more patients, experts are confronting difficult questions about appetite suppression, eating-disorder risk, and how clinicians should monitor people who may be vulnerable.
Recent research has found a potential clue for increased heart attack risk and it's visible to the naked eye, reports The New York Post. The accumulation of fatty plaques in the arteries that causes ...
Researchers have warned that air pollution levels in South Africa, and exposure to higher levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) – especially in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal – are placing residents at ...
Doctors should avoid embracing every new artificial intelligence system uncritically or refusing to use AI on principle, argues Daniel Sokol in an opinion piece in The BMJ. Sokol writes: Artificial ...
A remarkable study led by Stanford Medicine in the United States has found the brain is two separate organs adjacent to one another, a finding which could aid research into devastating neurological ...
The SA Revenue Services wants R1.9bn from alleged Tembisa Hospital kingpin Hangwani Morgan Maumela, who has still not been formally charged in the looting scandal, reports News24, and who the Receiver ...