Plastic production and consumption has snowballed since large-scale production began in the 1950s...
Stephanie B. Borrelle 2 days ago
Construction has begun on the new Foster + Partners-designed Cairo hospital, featuring soft and warm colours and shell-like roofs, located within a lush, verdant landscape...
15 Sep 2020
Cardiovascular diseases and their risk factors, such as diabetes and high blood pressure, are major causes of death and disability globally.
Maria Odland & Justine Ina Davies 10 Sep 2020
Achieving a healthy population isn't easy for any country - rich or poor. One of the approaches that's gained traction over the past two decades is preventative care through health promotion...
Jane Simmonds & Charles Parry 8 Jul 2020
The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency, and the number of diseases associated with it, seems to be increasing worldwide. Africa is known to have a huge burden of disease, but little is known about the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency...
Reagan Mogire 29 Jun 2020
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Issued by Livewell 2 Apr 2020
The burden of non-communicable diseases in sub-Saharan African is growing because of factors such as demographic changes and increases in life expectancy...
Martin Heine 13 Feb 2020
Medical aid may feel like a grudge purchase until you find yourself faced with a health issue, and unexpected and expensive medical or hospital costs...
Issued by Bonitas 30 Jan 2020
Strides in medicine have contributed to a dramatic increase in life expectancy over the last century. Diseases like HIV and cervical cancer that were essentially death sentences as recently as 30 years ago can now be managed...
James Leahy 28 Oct 2019
Supplementing with vitamin D may lower the risk of cancer death by 16%, according to new research...
Issued by Leap Communications 18 Oct 2019
There's a rise of cardiovascular diseases in developing countries which is linked to changes in diet, physical activity and obesity...
Frederick Wekesah 13 Sep 2019
Bonitas Medical Fund (the Scheme) reported its financial results for 2018 announcing bolstered reserves from R4bn in 2017 to R4.13bn in 2018, despite difficult trading conditions...
Issued by Bonitas 16 Jul 2019
If you want to reduce your risk of getting Alzheimer's disease, there is no end of advice on the internet telling you how to do it...
Elisabet Englund & Keivan Javanshiri 26 Jun 2019
Non-communicable diseases are the current leading cause of death worldwide. And the burden is increasingly shifting from developed to developing countries...
Andre Pascal Kengne, Elvis Banboye Kidzeru & Muki Shey 19 Jun 2019
The careers of dietitians are way more diverse than many think. The typical assumption is that a dietitian is a nutritional health professional available through private practice to those who need and can afford weight loss expertise...
Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 4 Jun 2019
Cipla Medpro will acquire a 30% stake upon closure in the connected healthcare company, Brandmed...
Issued by Cipla 17 May 2019
Canagliflozin, a drug approved to lower glucose levels in diabetic patients, can slow the progression of kidney disease, according to a study co-authored by a Stanford Medicine researcher.
16 Apr 2019
Research has shown that excess salt intake is harmful to people's health. It can lead to high blood pressure and increase the risk of heart disease and stroke...
Alta Schutte & Michél Strauss 14 Mar 2019
South Africans need more sleep. Sleep-deprived employees are at higher risk of life-threatening chronic illness and disability, more likely to cause workplace accidents, less productive and more absent - adding up to an economic liability in the billions...
25 Feb 2019
Economic growth, accompanied by a fall in infectious diseases over the past two decades, has changed the profile of the biggest to the health of people living in low and middle-income countries...
7 Feb 2019
All organisms are unique. Each having a set of genetic instructions for their build-up and maintenance. This set of genetic instructions is contained in genes that makeup a genome...
Lamech Mwapagha 30 Jan 2019
The stress, pressure and long hours that most medical practitioners are exposed on a daily basis does increase the risk to their health...
30 Dec 2018
In an October 22, 2018 article in the Journal of Global Health, Rifat Atun, professor of global health systems at Harvard Chan School, and co-authors write that machine learning has the potential to transform health systems...
Karen Feldscher 21 Nov 2018
The prevalence of diabetes in adults is increasing worldwide, and it is predicted that by 2040, this condition will become one of the leading causes of death in South Africa...
Douglas Craythorne, Issued by Cipla 14 Nov 2018
This Saturday 10 March, Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced the results of the ODYSSEY OUTCOMES trial, which tested the long-term effects of a cholesterol lowering drug in high cardiovascular risk patients who had recently experienced a heart attack.
Issued by Britespark Communications 18 Oct 2018
A programme that offered financial incentives to both patients and their physicians to control low-density lipoproteins (LDL) cholesterol could be a cost-effective intervention for patients at high risk of cardiovascular disease...
16 Oct 2018
Women who reported recent, regular use of low-dose aspirin (100 milligrams or less) had a 23% lower risk of developing ovarian cancer when compared with women who did not regularly take aspirin...
12 Oct 2018
There will be almost ten billion people living on Earth by 2050 and two billion of them will be over the age of 60.
Richard Faragher 12 Sep 2018
Finding the right biochemical tests to detect diabetes mellitus earlier can reduce the heavy burden of this disease on the healthcare system and local communities...
Jorisna Bonthuys 10 Sep 2018
A new class of drugs has the potential of reducing cardiovascular risk by targeting a specific microbial pathway in the gut...
13 Aug 2018
Contrary to the popular belief that parasites and infections are the biggest killers, people in developing countries are more likely to die from NCDs than their first world counterparts...
27 Jul 2018
Certain medicines containing the active pharmaceutical ingredient, valsartan, have been recalled by the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority...
25 Jul 2018
Bonitas Medical Fund has reported a solid surplus of R730.20m for 2017, recouping the R16.9m deficit from 2016...
Issued by Bonitas 25 Jul 2018
In its current form, the proposed National Health Insurance (NHI) is by no means perfect and there remains a lot of uncertainty...
24 Jul 2018
HIV is the epidemic of our time, with up to 38.8-million people living with the disease worldwide in 2015-2016, and around two-million new cases diagnosed in 2015...
23 Jul 2018
Inaccurate diagnosis, medication errors, inappropriate or unnecessary treatment, inadequate or unsafe clinical facilities or practices, or providers who lack training prevail in countries of all income levels...
17 Jul 2018
While diet and exercise are very important, health and wellness coach Reinhard Korb believes that the one true answer to a healthy life is purpose...
Issued by Nomadic Digital 21 Jun 2018
Prince, a three-year-old boy, is brought to the emergency room in Monrovia, Liberia, with fever and a decreased level of consciousness. He is critically ill. He is treated for malaria...
Julia von Oettingen and Rajesh Vedanthan 12 Jun 2018
"Improving the nutritional quality of sorghum and pearl millet is important, but it is equally vital to determine whether altering the composition of these cereals may lead to unforeseen and/or undesirable consequences that may not be immediately obvious..."
Dr Alec Basson 7 Jun 2018
These programmes focus on combating diseases related to poverty, such as rheumatic heart disease, pericardial disease, cardiomyopathy and heart failure...
7 May 2018
The International Maritime Organization, a United Nations agency that regulates global shipping, is writing new rules to curb greenhouse gas emissions from ships by 2050...
James J. Winebrake and James J. Corbett 17 Apr 2018
With the Seedstars World Summit taking place on Thursday, 12 April 2018, the organisers have announced the final 65 finalists that will get the chance to pitch their ideas on the global stage. 20 out of the 65 finalists are from Africa...
Ilse van den Berg 11 Apr 2018
Between 2030 and 2050, climate change will result in 250,000 additional deaths per year...
5 Apr 2018
"We hope to produce so-called smart foods with extra health benefits that are safe, marketable, affordable, ready to eat and trendsetting."
Mologadi Makwela 3 Apr 2018
Africa is home to about 16% of the world's population. That's 1.2 billion people. But the continent is disproportionately burdened by a double health challenge: infectious diseases and a recent increase in non-communicable diseases...
Michèle Ramsay 14 Mar 2018
When the World Health Organisation created an essential medicines list in the early 2000s, the aim was to provide a list of medicines that should be made available and accessible to country's entire population...
Jeremy Schwartz and Mari Armstrong-Hough 8 Mar 2018
The new commander-in-chief has made promises, but how likely is he to deliver?
MIA MALAN, LAURA LOPEZ GONZALEZ, JOAN VAN DYK 23 Feb 2018
One of Germany's top courts will decide on Thursday whether some diesel vehicles can be banned from parts of cities like Stuttgart and Duesseldorf to reduce air pollution, a possible landmark judgement for the "car nation"...
20 Feb 2018
Rapid urbanisation and associated changes in people's lifestyle means Africa faces a growing obesity problem...
Dickson Amugsi 30 Jan 2018
A change in patient perception and its cost-saving benefits have seen generic medicine use in South Africa reach 60%...
25 Oct 2017