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| Professor Guy Richards and Professor Adriano G. Duse will address at the Wits Faculty of Health Sciences 10th Prestigious Research Lecture at 5pm on 30 June 2014 at the Wits Public Health Auditorium in Parktown, Johannesburg on the subject of 'Superbugs'. Read more >>
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 | A study, published in The Lancet in May 2014, by researchers of the University of Cape Town, indicates that a two-pronged treatment can safely reduce TB incidence among people with HIV. Read more >>
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 | Nigerian business leader and philanthropist, Sir Emeka Offor, announced his second donation of US$1 million to Rotary for its polio eradication efforts, at the organisation's annual convention in Sydney on 3 June 2014. Last year's gift was also announced at Rotary convention, held in Lisbon. Read more >>
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 | Bruce Fellman Yale biomedical engineer Rong Fan, a soft-spoken wizard of the nanorealm, has crafted an unprecedented way to trap individual cells as they travel highways only a billionth of a meter wide. Read more >>
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 | Cancer Research UK scientists have uncovered new insights into how a key pancreatic cancer drug - gemcitabine - is broken down in tumour cells, according to research published in the British Journal of Cancer (BJC) on Friday, 30 May 2014. Read more >>
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 | Leanne Tee Consumers need to ensure the safe transport, handling and preparation of the food they buy, to extract its full nutritional value, avoid unnecessary health risks and complete the safe journey that responsible retailers have begun. Read more >>
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 | Aeras, a global non-profit biotech seeking a new TB vaccine, has provided seed funding for the formation of a consortium that will advocate for, design and implement an effective TB vaccine research strategy for South Africa, which has the world's highest TB incidence. Read more >>
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|  | TAIPEI, TAIWAN: A new generation of wearable technology is promising not only to log data about users' health but to predict and avert crises, from drivers falling asleep at the wheel to runners wearing themselves out in a marathon. Read more >>
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|  | Aphiwe Deklerk Over-weight MPs say they have had enough of the fattening food they get fed in the National Assembly saying it is the unhealthy food that is to blame for their weight gain. Read more >>
|  | As the winter season sets in, Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini has called on South Africans to assist vulnerable children, who have no one to look after them, as National Child Protection Week comes to a close. Read more >>
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