PSA level three months after radiation Tx may predict outcome
Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels three months after radiotherapy (RT) are strong markers of prostate cancer outcomes for patients with intermediate- and high-risk disease, according...
Global resolution on rheumatic fever, rheumatic heart disease
Member States of the World Health Organization have unanimously adopted a Global Resolution on Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease at the World Health...
Heart failure patients with a higher protein intake live longer
Heart failure patients who consume more protein live longer,
according to research presented at Heart Failure 2018 and the World
Congress on Acute Heart Failure, a European...
Lack of exposure to infection may trigger childhood leukaemia
A major new analysis reveals for the first time the likely
cause of most cases of childhood leukaemia, following more than a century of
controversy about...
Seminar to unpack recently approved Medical Schemes Amendment Bill
The Medical Schemes Amendment Bill, the subject of
considerable debate mainly in terms of its proposed alignment to National
Health Insurance (NHI) and the associated role,...
Neurologists identify new type of vertigo
A hyperactive and asymmetric velocity-storage
mechanism may be responsible for intermittent attacks of vertigo in some
patients with recurrent spontaneous vertigo (RSV) of unknown aetiology,
according to...
Paediatric and law experts define abusive head trauma
Abusive head trauma (AHT), a medical diagnosis of infants
and young children who suffer from inflicted intracranial and associated spinal
injuries, is often misrepresented in legal...
Less driving tied to lower cardiovascular disease risk
More active alternatives to the car for travel are associated with a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and all-cause mortality, a British study...
SASCRO Census: relative shortage of practising oncologists countrywide
Among the more significant challenges facing the country’s oncology services at present is the “progressive decrease” in specialist radiation oncologists in the academic/state sector,...
Second opinions of outside mammograms find more cancer
Second-opinion reads of mammograms initially performed at an outside facility identify more cancers and improve the positive predictive value of biopsy, even in patients...
Daily egg consumption linked to reduced CVD risk
A study published online this week in Heart has shown that a moderate level of egg consumption is associated with a reduced risk of cardiovascular...
Cryoablation shown to be effective for cancer pain control
Laura Ferrer-Mileo, from L'Hospitalet de Llobregat in Barcelona, Spain, and colleagues conducted a systematic literature review to identify articles that evaluated the efficacy of...
Urinary stones linked to testosterone therapy
Testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) is associated with an elevated risk of urinary stones, investigators reported at the American Urological Association 2018 annual meeting which...
Leg exercise critical to brain, nervous system health
Groundbreaking research shows that neurological health depends as much on signals sent by the body's large, leg muscles to the brain as it does...
Are the proposed medical schemes amendments likely to benefit members?
In the wake of reports about Health
Minister Aaron Motsoaledi’s proposals for ushering in a new set of rules for
how medical schemes operate, how are...
Blood type determines severity of E.coli diarrhoea
A new study shows that a kind of E. coli most associated with "travellers' diarrhoea" as well as children in underdeveloped areas of the world, causes...
Testerosterone therapy safe despite prostate cancer history
Testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) for men with a history of prostate cancer (PCa) does not increase recurrence rates following radical treatment or progression rate...
Intermittent fasting diets appear to increase diabetes risk
Fasting every other day to lose weight impairs the action of
sugar-regulating hormone, insulin, which may increase diabetes risk, according
to data presented in Barcelona at...