SA Heart Congress deadline for abstract submissions extended
In a final call for abstract submissions, the organising committee of this year’s SA Heart Congress at Sun City from 4 to 7 October...
HPCSA warns against unregistered locums
The discovery of an unregistered locum practising in Wolmaranstad, North West Province, has prompted the Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) to caution medical...
Ultrasound reveals thickened bowel walls in ulcerative colitis flares
The vast majority of patients with ulcerative colitis who experience clinical flares show thickening of the bowel wall on ultrasound, researchers in Germany have...
Why “sorry” is the hardest word for doctors to say
When things go wrong, appropriate communication by medical
practitioners with a patient and their relatives is a skill perfected over time.
When, how and in what...
New guidelines to manage GSM in women with breast cancer
Although the genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM) is
more prevalent in survivors of breast cancer than in other menopausal women, it
is commonly undiagnosed and untreated....
Hypoxia not linked with nocturia
Among patients complaining of respiratory sleep disturbances, intermittent reductions in blood oxygen levels during sleep, but not persistent hypoxia, is associated with nocturia, a...
Guideline recommends exercise for cancer patients
Exercise should now be a part of the standard of care in treating all patients with cancer, according to a new position statement from...
Nodal metastasis risk up when cancer is directly on lip
The risk of nodal metastasis is five-fold greater for skin cancer on the vermilion lip versus the cutaneous lip, according to a study published...
Spousal conflict may worsen chronic pain
For those with chronic conditions such as arthritis or diabetes, marital conflict may have physical repercussions as well, researchers have found.
They found that in two...
Comprehensive care physician model improves care, lowers hospitalisation
Clinicians who focus their practices on the care of patients
in and out of the hospital, could improve care while reducing hospitalisation
for a highly vulnerable...
Six years of exercise, or lack of it, enough to change...
By analyzing reported physical activity levels over time in more than 11,000 American adults, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers conclude that increasing physical activity to...
Thyroid disease link to anxiety, depression shown
There is a strong link between depression and anxiety disorders and autoimmune thyroiditis (AIT), a chronic thyroid condition affecting approximately 10 percent of the...
Dedicated four-hour NHI/universal health debate for KZN Doctors conference
Among the more significant healthcare considerations to be facilitated at this year’s 20th Annual KZN Doctors Healthcare Coalition (KZNDHC*) will be a four-hour round...
Ob-Gyns should play role in reducing CVD risk for women
Obstetrician-gynaecologists (ob-gyns) can help promote risk identification and reduction of cardiovascular disease among women at well-women visits.
In an American Heart Association/American College of Obstetrics...
Midstream urine microbiome diverse in seniors with CKD
A study published online in International Urology and Nephrology has warned that older adults with non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease (CKD) have a diverse midstream voided...
Overall, drinking wine does not impact prostate cancer risk
Mihai Dorin Vartolomei, PhD, MD, from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Tirgu Mures in Romania, and colleagues conducted a systematic literature review...
New assays may detect early lung cancer in blood
Three assays may detect early lung cancer in blood samples
using genome sequencing, according to a study presented at the annual meeting
of the American Society...