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Thanks for all your support in 2012Today sees our last newsletters for the year, with the first 2013 edition of Bizcommunity Medical to be published on 8 January. But for those who haven't disappeared to a remote island with no WiFi for the holidays, we will keep updating the site over the festive break. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued support; we want to wish all of you a very enjoyable year-end (provided the doomsdayers don't get their way and it ends on Friday). For those on and off the road, may you have a safe and peaceful time. We look forward to another successful year! All the best from the Bizcommunity.com Team!Top stories
HIV/AIDS
[Gabi Khumalo] The HIV epidemic in South Africa has in the last six years shown stabilisation and the country is on its way to reaching the Aids Millennium Development Goal of reducing the HIV prevalence rate to 25% by 2015. Read more >>
CSI
 This year, MySchool MyVillage MyPlanet and their partner, Woolworths, will give 100 kids a smile for Christmas when they help Operation Smile, a MyVillage beneficiary, perform 100 life changing operations for South African children born with cleft palates and cleft lips. Read more >>
Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu, the Deputy Minister of the Department of Women, Children and Persons with Disabilities presented the 'National Disability Champion Award' to Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) at a gala function in Mpumalanga in recognition of its commitment to the disability sector. Read more >>
Infectious Diseases
 BRASILIA, BRAZIL: China and South Africa have joined Japan in suspending imports of Brazilian beef meat over an atypical case of mad cow disease, an official source said on Thursday, 13 December 2012. Read more >>
Medical Aid
Chairman of Agility Global Health Solutions, Neels Barendrecht says in 2013 medical schemes will face increasing costs and competition. Those that survive will need to come up with innovative ways to service their members even better. Read more >>
Medical Research
 [Helen Dodson] Yale Cancer Center researchers have identified several effective combinations of therapies that inhibit melanomas driven by two of the most formidable cancer genes. Some combinations include cholesterol-lowering statin drugs. The study appears in the journal Cancer Discovery. Read more >>
Medical Technology
ITHACA, NY, USA: A bit reminiscent of the Terminator T-1000, a new material created by Cornell researchers is so soft that it can flow like a liquid and then, strangely, return to its original shape. Read more >>
Nutrition
 Most of us (76%) admit to eating more than usual during the festive period and will on average gain 2kg in weight, according to a just-released national year-end survey by Pharma Dynamics. Read more >>
Paediatrics
 [Tamar Khan] The Department of Health has finalised its regulations for the way infant formula milk is promoted, banning images of jolly bottle-fed babies and making it illegal for companies to make negative claims about breastfeeding. Read more >>
Pharmaceutical Companies
With the R1,4bn contract to supply the state with antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, Cipla Medpro SA has found a remedy for its struggling manufacturing division - at least for the next two years. Read more >>
Surgical Procedures
Prostate cancer patients receiving the costly treatment known as proton radiotherapy experienced minimal relief from side effects such as incontinence and erectile dysfunction, compared to patients undergoing a standard radiation treatment called intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Read more >>
Women's Health
 PHILADELPHIA, USA: Obese women might be able to eliminate their increased risk for postmenopausal breast cancer by taking measures during perimenopause to prevent weight gain and to therapeutically control the metabolic effects of their obesity, according to the results of a preclinical study published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Read more >>
PARIS, FRANCE: Pre-historic Man was already making cheese some 7,000 years ago, using perforated clay pots as strainers, scientists said last week. Read more >>
More International...
 Dentists want the High Court in Pretoria to set aside a government decision to impose regulations on their assistants, The Star reported on Monday (17 December). Read more >>
Former President Nelson Mandela has undergone a procedure via endoscopy to have gall stones removed. Read more >>
 [Siphiwe Nyathi] Deaf people in Mpumalanga have asked Minister of Women, Children and People with Disabilities Lulu Xingwana to establish a free SMS line they can use to report crime. Read more >>
The Presidency says doctors attending to former President Nelson Mandela have reported that he has made progress during the past 24 hours and they are satisfied with the way he is responding to treatment. Read more >>
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