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Dialysis clinic eases backlog

Clinix Tshepo-Themba Private Hospital in Soweto has opened its first kidney and dialysis clinic with the hope of easing the burden faced by patients in the densely populated township. Read more >>

Private sector's response to health challenges - targeted CSI funding platform

The partnership between South African Business Coalition on Health and Aids (SABCOHA), the Community Fund, EOH and Aveng Group heralds the beginning of a new chapter in the private sector's response to health challenges in South and Southern Africa. It will create a targeted CSI funding platform, which will provide business with a tangible business-led mechanism to assist government in delivering on its socio economic promises. Read more >>

Lifesaving medicines could compromise hearing

Some medications can cause a loss of hearing, offering an ototoxic risk. A prime example is the risk associated with TB medication. Read more >>

Reduce chocolate, avoid heartburn this Easter

Over Easter, millions of South Africans may reach for their chests in discomfort more often than usual and the heartburn culprit, says a local pharmaceutical company, is chocolate. Read more >>

Tapeworms larvae are harmful to humans

Adult tapeworms can live in the gut for years without doing much harm, but the larvae they produce can be harmful. Read more >>

Shining red mice help Czechs fight bowel cancer, skin disease

PRAGUE: Injected with a fluorescent protein to make them glow bright red, laboratory mice are helping Czech scientists better understand the causes behind intestinal cancers and skin diseases while leaving the rodents unscathed. Read more >>

CGCSA shocked at salt regulations

The Consumer Goods Council of SA (CGCSA) expressed disappointment on Tuesday, 20 March 2013, at the publication of regulations to reduce salt content in foodstuffs. Read more >>

Meat producers face tougher rules

[Linda Ensor] The department of trade and industry will this week publish proposals to strengthen the labelling of meat products so that their ingredients - such as beef‚ donkey or water buffalo - be identified more precisely. Read more >>

Bidvest wants to buy Adcock Ingram

[Tamar Kahn] Bidvest's offer for 60% of Adcock Ingram's shares is in line with its strategy of buying under-performing assets at their lowest ebb‚ according to analysts. Read more >>

Africa's growth driven by SA

[Schalk Mouton] Although Africa made huge strides in increasing human development in the past decade, gains could - with hundreds of millions of people being pushed into extreme poverty - easily be reversed should "significant progress" not be made in halting global warming. Read more >>

Massive funding boost needed to beat TB: UN

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND: The global fight against tuberculosis needs a massive financial boost as drug-resistant strains of the disease take hold, two international organisations warned on Monday, 18 March 2013. Read more >>

SA soldiers killed in CAR

A total of 13 South African soldiers were killed during clashes with rebel forces in the Central African Republic (CAR), the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) said today (25 March). Read more >>

Thousands of prisoners have TB

Jailed prisoners have overtaken the mining sector by having more prisoners infected with tuberculosis (TB) than miners. Read more >>

Govt takes battle against TB to prisons, mines

[Dennis Cruywagen] Government is stepping up its efforts to fight tuberculosis (TB) in prisons, mines and schools. Read more >>