South Africa is to stage the world's largest HIV and Aids counselling and testing campaign as the government embarks on a huge drive to contain the disease that is decimating the population.
Read more >>For many people, diet and exercise help keep them looking and feeling healthy. But even those who work hard on staying in shape might have a hard time shaking stubborn love handles or lower belly fat, which can bulge through clothing like a neon sign.
Read more >>[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.
Read more >> Research team identifies five new gene regions that raise the risk of childhood-onset IBD; findings linked to a key molecule active in GI inflammation.
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The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) has called on all countries to mark World Diabetes Day (Saturday 14 November 2009) and increase diabetes awareness by lighting monuments around the world in blue - the colour of the blue circle, the global symbol for diabetes.
Read more >>Research has found that rapidly cooling a person in cardiac arrest may improve chance of survival without brain damage.
Read more >>In South Africa approximately six children die a day from severe rotavirus gastroenteritis.¹, ² This devastating disease causes severe diarrhoea and vomiting, as well as mortality and morbidity in children under five.
Read more >>Finding may give hope to more leukaemia patients so they may live cancer-free.
Read more >>Kennedy Krieger researchers suggest improvements are possible by targeting letter formation, fine motor control training.
Read more >>A new miniature, hand-held microscope may allow more precise removal of brain tumours and an easier recognition of tumour locations during surgery.
Read more >>Poor mental health in children and teenagers impacts on the length of time they will stay in school: Study
Read more >>People would be willing to pay more for products that carry detailed nutritional information than for the so-called light items. Thus it has been confirmed by researchers from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) and the Centre for Agro-Food Research and Technology of Aragón (CITA) in a new study on the nutritional labelling of breakfast biscuits. The study was published in
Food Quality and Preference Read more >>Contrary to more conservative customs, exercising up to the end of pregnancy has no harmful effect on the weight or size of the foetus.
Read more >>New Mayo Clinic research studied the association between prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels and prostate size and found that routine annual evaluation of prostate growth is not necessarily a predictor for the development of prostate cancer. However the study suggests that if a man's PSA level is rising quickly, a prostate biopsy is reasonable to determine if he has prostate cancer. These findings are being presented this week at the North Central Section of the American Urological Association (
www.ncsaua.org/) in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Read more >>People with haemianopia have difficulty detecting pedestrians, study cautions against allowing them to drive.
Read more >>Study in
Journal of the American College of Surgeons finds fertility preservation is safe option.
Read more >>In a recent
New York Times article, the American Cancer Society (ACS) ignited a major controversy over the benefits of cancer screening, specifically with regards to their breast and prostate cancer guidelines.
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