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Heart and Stroke Foundation SA
Shock statistics on heart disease and stroke in South Africa
Experts estimate the total direct and indirect costs of death and disability from heart disease and stroke to exceed R8 billion a year, says Marion Scher 4 Sep 2007 14:09
Health DiRxions
Who's your daddy?
Identifying or confirming the father of a child is often very important in child maintenance cases, inheritance claims, and other situations. 22 Oct 2007 14:23


Mango-OMC
The status of breast health management in South Africa
[Professor Justus Apffelstaedt] Now is a good time to reflect on the status of breast health management in South Africa and how we can improve the fate of women in an environment with limited resources. 27 May 2008 11:23
Advertorial: Use strategy rather than effort to lose weight
[Dr Conrad Smith] Latest bulletin from industry insider reveals: Doctors show that 9 out of 10 people with resistant body fat deposits can now successfully lose weight, but only if they focus their campaign on strategy rather than effort. 5 May 2008 16:19
Heart and Stroke Foundation SA
Couch potato lifestyle a risk factor for heart disease in South Africa
Most South Africans are couch potatoes and lead a sedentary lifestyle, according to a report released this month entitled ‘Heart Disease in South Africa'. By Marion Scher. 4 Sep 2007 14:20


Mokopane Hospital the 'best for babies'
[Kulani Mavunda] Mokopane Hospital, in Polokwane, is considered to be the best hospital in Limpopo to have a baby. 27 Jul 2007 15:49
HIV reservoir identified
Researchers have discovered a 'reservoir' that allows HIV to remain infectious despite treatment. 20 May 2008 06:11
Cape Town's Somerset Hospital in urgent need of funds
Cape Town's Somerset Hospital is asking companies to donate upwards of R50 000 towards new equipment for the hospital. 28 May 2008 10:30
Boutique Marketing
Company news: Introducing a new dental insurance package
Insurance is designed to assist you financially when disaster strikes, and dental health insurance follows the same principle. 26 Mar 2008 10:27
Assocation news: Abuse of prescribed minimum benefits
The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) has warned practitioners against abusing the prescribed minimum benefits regime to extract the maximum payments from clients by charging its upper ethical tariffs for these services. 29 Jun 2007 12:55
ETHIOPIA: Soaring malnutrition hits children hardest
Genetu Dekebo's children were on the verge of starvation at the time she decided to seek treatment at Rophi therapeutic feeding centre in southern Ethiopia's Oromiya regional state. 29 May 2008 11:07
Martina Nicholson Associates
Europe's finest to learn from SA cardiologist
Thousands watch the screen carefully as his hands work. On screen, a living heart pumps while a small wire threads its way across the image - carefully, deliberately - far finer and more delicate than imaginable. 15 May 2008 12:28
The Write Agency
South African psychiatrists react to reporting on anti-depressant medication
Recent global reports about the apparent ineffectiveness of antidepressants have SA psychiatrists up in arms 13 Mar 2008 10:28


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