In the first reported case of the autoinflammatory VEXAS syndrome in South Africa, J Damelin, J Jacobson, C Bam, L Pillay and ...
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Women who accidentally fall pregnant while taking a GLP-1 treatment for diabetes or weight loss are not at increased risk of ...
This week on Why Did I Become A Doctor?, in partnership with MedicalBrief, Dr Suhayl Essa talks medicine, comedy, burnout, ...
If R182m meant for an already buckling health system can be poured into PR with so few checks, imagine the risks when the NHI becomes the country’s single, centralised purchaser of healthcare, writes ...
Merck has announced that it will no longer manufacture or market the antibacterial combination drug Recarbrio as “part of an ongoing review of its portfolio and unrelated to any product safety or ...
Recent research by German scientists has suggested that people with diabetes reported better quality of life after days when their glucose stayed largely within a healthy range, even when levels ...
After a survey of more than 370 000 US adults comparing whole fruit and juice habits across cardiovascular diagnoses – with a closer look at which differences persist after adjustment – the ...
Women with peripheral artery disease are less likely than men to receive a timely diagnosis or recommended care, which can further jeopardise cardiovascular health, warn experts in The Washington Post ...
In efforts to sustain the use of GLP-1 drugs by its members – most of whom stop claiming for the treatment within six months – Discovery’s rewards scheme Vitality is stepping up its support, saying ...
The implications of the Constitutional Court striking down the Certificate of Need (CoN) scheme are much narrower than commentators have made out, with no major impact on the NHI, P Kruger and N ...
Under a new health accountability framework endorsed by the 81st UN General Assembly (UNGA) last month in New York, African governments have committed to subjecting their progress on maternal and ...