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Oct 22, 2024 | 
health-e.org.za | Yoliswa Sobuwa |Precious Mashiane |Sandile Livingstone Mbili
In Gauteng’s Ekurhuleni District, the number of teenage girls between the ages of 10 and 19 who gave birth in public health facilities in the 2022/2023 period is 6 670, the highest in the country. It’s an increase from 5 928 births the year before. Ekurhuleni and Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape have both seen a rise in teenage births since the 2018/2019 financial year.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
health-e.org.za | Precious Mashiane |Sandile Livingstone Mbili |Yoliswa Sobuwa
Henry Chung, University of Essex; Chris McManus, University of Essex, and Sally Waterworth, University of Essex Weight loss is a complicated process. There are so many factors involved including your diet, how much sleep you get each night and the kind of exercise you do. Our recent study shows that your specific genetic profile may also have a dominant effect on how well you lose weight through exercise. This might explain why two people who do an identical workout will see very different results.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
health-e.org.za | Yoliswa Sobuwa |Precious Mashiane |Sandile Livingstone Mbili
A young scientist from Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape is determined to fight hospital-acquired infections by introducing eco-friendly solutions to purify the air in healthcare facilities. While people typically go to hospitals to get better, sometimes being in a health facility exposes them to hospital-acquired infections, which pose significant risks to vulnerable patients.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
health-e.org.za | Sandile Livingstone Mbili |Yoliswa Sobuwa |Precious Mashiane
Kuhlekonke Phenyane from Vryheid in northern KwaZulu-Natal was born with lamellar ichthyosis (LI), a rare skin condition that causes the build-up of scales all over the body. The nine-year-old has never attended school because her parents were scared that their daughter would be bullied. Because of her condition, she suffers constant itching and flaking skin. “My daughter is struggling, she cannot be around other people.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
health-e.org.za | Precious Mashiane |Yoliswa Sobuwa
In November 2023, 64-year-old Klass Skosana was allegedly turned away from two different health facilities: Impungwe Hospital and Witbank Hospital, after he collapsed at his home in the township of Van Dyk in Emalahleni, Mpumalanga. His granddaughter Nonhlanhla Skosana (25) says that the night Skosana collapsed, his neighbours notified her, and she had to make the 20km trip to his home.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
health-e.org.za | Bakang Ditibane |Precious Mashiane |Molefi Sompane |Yoliswa Sobuwa
Patients at Mahikeng Provincial Hospital in the North West have criticised it for allegedly failing to provide adequate optometry services. Some of the patients claim the facility gave them the wrong prescription spectacles, which allegedly worsened their conditions. Others say they have been waiting for their spectacles for years. One of the patients is a grade 12 learner, Gomolemo More, whose academic performance has been negatively affected by her vision problem.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
health-e.org.za | Molefi Sompane |Chris Bateman |Precious Mashiane |Montsho Matlala
Parents have stopped their children from attending a pre-school in Bloemfontein after it was found on Thursday, August 22 that some of the children have hand, foot and mouth disease. One of the parents, Neo Lemaoana, says she got worried when her four-year-old told her there were many children suffering from itching at her school. According to the World Health Organisation, the disease mainly affects children, but adults can also get infected.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
health-e.org.za | Faith Mutizira |Chris Bateman |Precious Mashiane |Montsho Matlala
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
health-e.org.za | Yoliswa Sobuwa |Chris Bateman |Precious Mashiane
President Cyril Ramphosa, and over 10 bodies representing civil society, academia, and trade unions, will push ahead with the signing of the health compact today. The event will proceed despite the stance taken by the South African Medical Association (SAMA) and Business Unity South Africa (BUSA) not to sign the second Presidential Health Compact. But Professor Alex van den Heever says the notable absence of these organisations negates the purpose of the pledge.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
health-e.org.za | Montsho Matlala |Yoliswa Sobuwa |Chris Bateman |Precious Mashiane
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