S.Africa Covid cases at highest level in months
South Africa is witnessing a "worrying" spike in coronavirus cases after a relative lull in new infections, official data showed Friday.
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South Africa is witnessing a "worrying" spike in coronavirus cases after a relative lull in new infections, official data showed Friday.
Apr 22, 2022
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A new study has found that women's health research remains disproportionately focused on the reproductive years—particularly on pregnancy—with few articles on the major causes of illness and death in women.
Mar 30, 2022
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South Africa has registered a total of more than 100,000 COVID deaths, according to official figures released Wednesday, but actual fatalities are believed to be much higher.
Mar 30, 2022
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Most of the world's countries have made little progress towards a target adopted by the United Nations in 2015, which called for the world to reduce premature mortality from non-communicable diseases by a third by 2030. Non-communicable ...
Mar 28, 2022
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They say a picture can convey a thousand words, and researchers have found that using medical imaging technologies that can visualize health may discourage risk-related behaviors more than non-visual information. The meta-analysis, ...
Mar 3, 2022
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South Africa has recorded zero COVID-19 deaths in the last two days, for the first time since May 2020, health authorities said Tuesday.
Mar 1, 2022
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Non-communicable diseases (NCDs)—diseases that are not transmissible between individuals—account for the leading causes of death globally. However, there is limited data about how NCDs affect vulnerable populations, especially ...
Feb 18, 2022
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Among patients with chronic, non-communicable diseases, the risk of death is more than doubled if they also have a psychiatric comorbidity, according to a new study publishing January 27th in PLOS Medicine by Seena Fazel ...
Jan 27, 2022
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Infection rates are soaring across South Africa as a result of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus, but fewer people have died or required hospital treatment compared to previous waves of COVID, health officials said Friday.
Dec 17, 2021
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As the omicron variant sweeps through South Africa, Dr. Unben Pillay is seeing dozens of sick patients a day. Yet he hasn't had to send anyone to the hospital.
Dec 11, 2021
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