SOUTH AFRICA A Valentine's special: Mending a broken heart[Chamendran Naidoo] If you've ever been in love, oh reader, then you've probably been out of it too. Somewhere deep within the chorus of your favourite Percy Sledge song, the feeling disappears, the love is lost and you find yourself eating half a tub of ice-cream, wondering if it was really "her, not you". Then, like clockwork, comes the pain. In fact, my dear readers, the emotional course of heartbreak has been paralleled to the stages experienced after the death of a loved one (and often just as intensely). | |
SOUTH AFRICA AstraZeneca to conduct survey on cholesterol under-treatment[Issa Sikiti da Silva] Three thousand patients currently undergoing treatment for hypercholesterol in South Africa are set to be surveyed to quantify and determine the degree of their under-treatment, Prof Matthias Haus, executive director and V-P of AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals SA, told the media on Thursday 5 November 2009, in Sunninghill, Johannesburg. |