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| FOLUP, a US based mobile and web-based health communication platform, has selected the Rare Disease Society of South Africa (RDSSA) as a partner to access patients with rare diseases and build patient groupings that provide patient-centric data for medical care, treatment and research purposes. Read more >>
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 | World Asthma Day is being celebrated today, 6 May 2014. According to a report by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA), South Africa has the world's fourth highest asthma death rate among five to 35 year olds. To address this problem, Cipla is running a sustainable asthma education initiative, Breathe Free. Read more >>
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 | Jeremy Maggs and a panel will examine and dissect the medicinal drug market's advertising while the audience votes if the work is healthy or sick. Read more >>
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 | Jude Polack A perineal tear occurs during childbirth when the tissue around the vaginal opening is damaged and this ranges from mere skin snicks, which heal on their own after childbirth (called first-degree tears), to tears involving vaginal tissue and the perineal muscles, which will need a few stitches in the delivery room (second-degree tears). Read more >>
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 | According to the most recent figures, the flu season costs the South African economy in excess of R2 billion annually, with 14.08% of total sick absenteeism incidents in corporate South Africa due to the influenza virus. Vaccinating the workforce not only invests in employees' health but also adds to the bottom line. Read more >>
|  | It has come to the attention of the Professional Board for Radiography and Clinical Technology of the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) that some companies have purchased x-ray equipment for mobile radiology services and are indulging in suspicious practices. Read more >>
|  | Issued by AHP - Africa Health Placements In his first year studying as a nurse, one of Danny Nkongolo's professors told him he made the right decision choosing such a "noble profession". "You are needed anywhere in the world," the academic told the 19-year-old Nkongolo, one of the brightest students in his class in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Read more >>
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|  | Linda Ensor A major review of the taxation of alcoholic beverages is being undertaken by the Treasury as a contribution to the government's fight against alcohol abuse and is likely to result in higher taxes and prices. Read more >>
|  | Overseas voting for South Africa's general election next week wrapped up on Thursday, 1 May, with no major incidents reported, said the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). Read more >>
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