Public servants get tested for HIV

More than 900 public servants from all government departments will get an opportunity to test themselves for HIV and be screened for other diseases when the Public Service HIV Testing and Counselling (HCT) Intensification Campaign is launched today. Read more >>

Popping pain pills after a heart attack could kill

People who have already suffered a heart attack may face higher odds of death or subsequent heart attack if they regularly take a common form of painkiller, Danish scientists say. Read more >>

Rotary to commit US$75 million to end polio

Rotary International plans to contribute US$75 million over three years to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative as part of a worldwide effort to close a $945 million funding gap that threatens to derail the 24-year-old global health effort, even as new polio cases are at an all-time low. Read more >>

Support Reach for a Dream at gala dinner in Western Cape

Reach for a Dream Western Cape will celebrate its 11th annual gala dinner fundraiser at The Bay Hotel in Camps Bay on Saturday, 3 November 2012. Guests will be wined and dined and entertained by MC Michael Mol, comedian Nik Rabinowitz and the band Tuxedo. The students of the Aleit Academy will style the event. Read more >>

SA at risk of food crisis

As food prices soar because of the ailing global and domestic economies, South Africans should also start worrying about the availability of something to eat. Read more >>

Concerns over high prices and feeding schemes

Cabinet is concerned that the worst US drought in 30 years will have an adverse effect on South African food security by pushing up the prices of cereals and meat‚ says Department of Agriculture‚ Forestry and Fisheries communications director Steve Galane. Read more >>

Prostate cancer: six prevailing myths

When it comes to prostate cancer, there is a lot of confusion about how to prevent it, find it early and the best way to treat it. Read more >>

Interstitial fluid pressure imaging, potential biomarker for tumor aggressiveness

PHILADELPHIA, USA: Researchers validated a method of noninvasive imaging that provides valuable information about interstitial fluid pressure of solid tumors and may aid in the identification of aggressive tumors, according to the results of a study published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Read more >>

Study reveals "unacceptably high" hip resurfacing failure rates

Hip resurfacing - an alternative to hip replacement often recommended to younger patients - is prone to early failure in many instances, and should not be used in women, according to a study led by the University of Bristol and published online first in The Lancet. Read more >>

Media support for Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital

When the CEO of the Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital (NMCH) Trust, Sibongile Mkhabela, announced in May 2012 that a R1 billion specialist hospital would be built in Joburg, media houses came on board and pledged their support to broadcast adverts needed to assist in creating awareness at no cost. Read more >>

Takeover Regulation Panel to probe Cipla Medpro

Pharmaceutical group Cipla Medro (CMP) said on Friday, 21 September 2012, it had received notification from the Takeover Regulation Panel (TRP) that it intended to conduct an investigation into the affairs of the company relating to a potential affected transaction. Read more >>

Going for gold: chemists find new way to create 'building blocks' for drugs

A new way to prepare biaryls - compounds that are essential building blocks in the creation of drugs and many modern materials such as LEDs - using gold as a catalyst is described by researchers from the University of Bristol in this week's edition of Science. Gold catalysis is easier, cheaper and more environmentally friendly than current methods which use palladium as a catalyst. Read more >>

Egypt doctors begin strike in public hospitals

CAIRO, EGYPT: Egyptian doctors began a partial strike on Monday, 1 October 2012, to demand better pay and working conditions, their syndicate said. Read more >>

UCT professor receives international grant for TB research

Professor Valerie Mizrahi, Director of the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicineat the University of Cape Town, has been named one of 13 leading basic science researchers in the world to receive a Senior International Research Scholar (SIRS) award from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). Read more >>