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 | A recent US study by the Analysis Group analysed just over 30 000 patients with and without foot ulcers over a 12-month period and showed that foot ulcers contribute to major medical expenses for diabetics - almost double the other costs of treating the condition and better foot care could cut these medical costs. Read more >>
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A small team of South African software developers believes they have the solution to solve the high costs of non-healthcare expenditure in the medical schemes industry. At present, according to the latest Council for Medical Schemes' (CMS) annual report, R13.1 billion was spent on such costs last year. Read more >>
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Michael Greenwood An international team of researchers led by the Yale School of Public Health has successfully sequenced the genetic code of the tsetse fly, opening the door to scientific breakthroughs that could reduce or end the scourge of African sleeping sickness in sub-Saharan Africa. The study is published in the journal Science. [video] Read more >>
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 | Bill Hathaway Yale's Michael Kinch spent his spare time in the last year creating a massive database that encompasses the entire history of drug development in the United States. In a series of 20 articles scheduled to be published over the next year in the journal Drug Discovery Today, Kinch mines the data and provides historical tidbits about the history of drug development and reveals trends on how - or whether - we will get new medicines in the future. Read more >>
|  | Zeenat Moorad As consumer spending in South Africa remains constrained‚ retailer Clicks Group reported a 9.6% rise in turnover to R9.3bn‚ for the half-year. Read more >>
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 | As part World Immunization Week, African Vaccination Week, being celebrated from 22-27 April 2014, has the theme 'Vaccination - a shared responsibility'. It highlights the role and importance of everyone to fight against the vaccine-preventable diseases such as pertussis, measles, tetanus, diphtheria, influenza, rotavirus diarrhoea, pneumonia, viral hepatitis and cancers associated with HPV (Human Papilloma Virus infections causing cervical, vulvar and vaginal cancers). Read more >>
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|  | WASHINGTON: US regulators proposed new restrictions on the US$2bn market in e-cigarettes, which until now have been free from federal regulation. Read more >>
|  | NEW YORK, USA: Facebook has bought the fitness app Moves, which helps users monitor daily physical activity and their calorie counts on a smartphone. Read more >>
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|  | Government has made headway in reducing road carnage based on preliminary road safety campaign figures, Transport Minister Dipuo Peters said on Wednesday. Read more >>
|  | More than 170 nurses and doctors in Gauteng have been trained to respond appropriately to the health needs of survivors of sexual assault. Read more >>
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