Healthspace

22/10/2018

The Checka Impilo campaign aims to put 2 mil people infected with on ARVs, find the missing 8000 patients and put them on anti TB treatment. Decrease the numbers of people with diabetes, hypertension and and encouraging healthy lifestyle. ^eN5

18/10/2018

Potentially harmful pharmaceuticals not listed on product labels were found in more than 700 over-the-counter OTC) dietary supplements, researchers report. Reuters Health reports that the pharmaceuticals, which were found in so-called natural products, were most likely to appear in supplements marke...

16/10/2018

Addi Lang is a 52 year-old woman living with cancer who is on a mission to address occupational health policies when it comes to the disease.

11/10/2018

Watching a film or listening to radio is a way for adolescents to use the media to further their knowledge about how to keep healthy.

08/10/2018

Scientists at RMIT University in Australia have developed colour-changing wearable sensors that can help people monitor their UV exposure.

02/10/2018

GARDP and Novartis have partnered to accelerate the development and availability of generic antibiotic treatments for children in LMIC.

25/09/2018

An innovative new concept called biohacking is helping people take care of their own health by better understanding and monitoring their bodies.

17/09/2018

An Australian study over 15-years suggests an independent and protective association between dietary intake of flavonoids and the likelihood of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), with cohort studies needed to validate the findings. A study has shown that people who regularly eat oranges are les...

13/09/2018

A breakthrough by a team of researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) could see patients with Alzheimer’s using a nasal spray to slow down the progression of the disease, the main cause of dementia, reports The Citizen. Until now, there has been no cure for Alzheimer’s, which att...

10/09/2018

Daily e-cigarette use is linked to increased odds of myocardial infarction. Dual use of e-ci******es and conventional ci******es – the most common use pattern among e-cigarette users – is more dangerous than using either product alone, US researchers have found. The researchers wrote in an Ameri...

06/09/2018

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Ahead of the Lean Summit Africa 2018 Tshepo Thobejane talks about the different types of waste in healthcare and the counter measures leaders can apply.

30/08/2018

Cedars-Sinai investigators have developed a simpler and more accurate method of estimating body fat than the widely used body mass index, or BMI. Called the relative fat mass index, or RFM, it was chosen from more than 300 possible formulas after validation against a database of 12,000 US adults. .....