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Weekly top stories
The upcoming visit to South Africa by United States President Barack Obama will further affirm relations between Pretoria and Washington, particularly in the area of trade and the fight against the HIV/Aids pandemic. Read more >>
WASHINGTON, USA: Two genes that are resistant to fungal wheat disease may help ward off a growing epidemic of stem rust that threatens crops in Africa, the Middle East and beyond, researchers said. Read more >>
In a significant development within the medical scheme industry, Liberty and Spectramed medical schemes today, 27 June 2013, announced their intention to merge. Read more >>
 | The Competition Commission has received submissions from a range of groups on the draft terms of reference for its proposed market inquiry into the private healthcare sector. Read more >> |
 | [Tamar Kahn] Members of Discovery Health Medical Scheme (DHMS) are paying more than average for administration fees, but are getting value for their hard-earned cash, concludes a review commissioned by the scheme from Deloitte Consulting. Read more >> |
 | Ranked the third largest open medical scheme at the end of 2012‚ Momentum Health is growing its membership base‚ has positive solvency levels and turned in solid financial results. Read more >> |
 | Scientists have developed a new approach for treating a deadly brain cancer that strikes 15,000 in the United States annually and for which there is no effective long-term therapy. The researchers, from Yale and Johns Hopkins, have shown that the approach extends the lives of laboratory animals and are preparing to seek government approval for a human clinical trial. Read more >> |
 | In a new study, researchers at Yale University School of Medicine pinpoint key molecular actions of proteins that allow the creation of mental representations necessary for higher cognition that are genetically altered in schizophrenia. Read more >> |
[Karen N. Peart] Women who give birth vaginally are at increased risk of developing pelvic organ prolapse during the year after delivery, according to a study of Chinese women by researchers at Yale School of Medicine and Wenzhou Third People's Hospital. Read more >>
Former President Nelson Mandela's condition remains unchanged, the Presidency said late yesterday. Read more >>
 | Aspen Group‚ the ninth largest generic pharmaceutical company in the world and the biggest in Africa‚ has signed an agreement with MSD to buy its active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing business in the Netherlands. Read more >> |
 | A new initiative to counteract the risk of codeine misuse through over-the-counter medicine will greatly assist healthcare professionals in making self-medication even safer, says the Self-Medication Manufacturers Association of South Africa (SMASA). Read more >> |
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: Kim Nam-Hee pulls no punches as she warns a classroom of wide-eyed South Korean 10-year-olds that they stand on the edge of an addiction that will turn them all into "mindless slaves". Read more >>
 | PARIS, FRANCE: British hospitals use red trays in a programme to combat malnutrition, but may have chosen the worst possible colour, according to a study's findings released on Wednesday (26 June) linking the colour of tableware to food enjoyment. Read more >> |
 | WASHINGTON, USA: New evidence that fracking may contaminate drinking water was published on Monday (24 June) in a study that's sure to add fuel to the fight over the controversial method of extracting natural gas from cracks in rocks. Read more >> |
 | BANGUI, CAR: At least 37 people were killed when a gold mine collapsed at Ndassima in the middle of the Central African Republic (CAR), where President Michel Djotodia has declared three days of mourning, national radio reported on Tuesday (25 June). Read more >> |
 | PARIS, FRANCE: Tired of checking your smartphone every few minutes for new emails, likes or retweets? Do you spend more time looking at your device than chatting to your date? Are you close to a digital burn-out? Read more >> |
 | WASHINGTON, USA: Manufacturers of generic drugs cannot be sued for adverse side effects caused by products that they did not themselves design, the US Supreme Court ruled on Monday (24 June). Read more >> |
More International
 | Former President Nelson Mandela's condition has stabilised, although he still remains critical, according to a statement issued by the Presidency yesterday afternoon. "He remains critical but is now stable," said the Presidency. Read more >> |
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