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By 2030, the proportion of total global deaths due to chronic lifestyle diseases - such as diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity - is expected to increase to 70% and the global burden of disease to 56%... read
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Until now, immunity to infection was passed from mother to child during breastfeeding; and this protection ends when breastfeeding stops...read
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Medical Research
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A new study has found a pattern of molecules that appear in the blood before a seizure happens... Read
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Paediatrics
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LEIGH ANDREWS
RX Radio has just celebrated its second year on air, as the station that's effectively for the children, by the children, as the Red Cross Children's Hospital's internet station... Read
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Public Health
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Colonialism's influence is everywhere from board rooms in Geneva, Switzerland, to Ebola treatment wards in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Read
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Tuberculosis
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University of Cape Town's Professor Valerie Mizrahi, will use her R1.5m Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award to develop two new areas of tuberculosis (TB) research... Read
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NUNU NTSHINGILA
Africa's economy is on the rise, freedom and prosperity are continuing to rise, and the continent is home to a youthful and dynamic population... Read
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BY FRANK MATTHEIS AND UELI STAEGER
After being ratified by the required minimum 22 nations, all the member states of the AU are now legally bound to allow African goods to be traded without restraint throughout the continent... Read
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VIRUSHA SUBBAN AND MATTHEW TOUT
The Carbon Tax Act and Customs and Excise Amendment Act were approved by the President in May, with the purpose of the latter to provide for the administration and collection of Carbon Tax revenue... Read
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Taxpayers with an annual income not exceeding R500,000 will no longer be required to submit tax returns... Read
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