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South Africa leads again on heart operations
Groote Schuur Hospital again leads heart surgery as it becomes the first hospital in Middle East, Africa, Central Asia, and Turkey to implant the world's smallest pacemaker: the Medtronic Micra Transcatheter Pacing System (TPS)... read more>>



CSI
FoodBank South Africa calls for 'Food Fast' on World Hunger Day
FoodBank SA is encouraging the people of South Africa to commit to fast for 12 hours from 7am to 7pm on 28 May 2015, World Hunger Day and make a R40 donation... read more>>
Food Crisis
Dept to probe classification of herbicide as possibly carcinogenic
Government will examine a recent evaluation by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) which found that glyphosate, a broad-spectrum herbicide used in about 100 products in South Africa, could possibly cause cancer... read more>>
Medical Research
Research in the news: Yale researchers find human-specific gene that turns back cellular clock

Bill Hathaway

An exhaustive analysis of factors that allow mature cells to become like embryonic stem cells again has revealed a spliced form of a gene found only in primates that greatly aids the reprogramming of mature cells... read more>>
Public Health
Illegal cigarettes damage more than our health
This World No-Tobacco Day, WHO and the Heart and Stroke Foundation South Africa want to highlight how illicit tobacco products impacts on South Africans' health by fuelling smoking in under-privileged areas and in our youth... read more>>
Higher quality of healthcare on the horizon
Philips South Africa and the Rhiza Foundation's sixth consecutive Cape Town to Cairo roadshow saw the launch of their 'mobile clinic'... read more>>
COHSASA Accreditation Awards

Issued by COHSASA

The following healthcare facilities have been awarded full accreditation by the Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa (COHSASA), a not-for-profit company (NPC) based in Cape Town... read more>>
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Business
Why your P@s$word is a fail

Jonas Thulin

Passwords have become practically useless as the sole security measure protecting your personal information... read more>>
Lifestyle
No, it's not you: why 'wellness' isn't the answer to overwork

Zoë Krupka

Despite the fact that the very best evidence we have about the causes of work stress and burnout point to factors present in the workplace rather than in us, the stress reduction industry and the helping professions' focus on individual self-care strategies is at an all-time high... read more>>
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9th Aesthetic Medicine Congress of South Africa
AMCSA Events Organiser CC - 28 May 2015 to 30 May 2015, Pretoria

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