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By Erin Layne Fischer Imagine being told that your child has a rare malignant eye cancer and finding out that it couldhave been caught earlier if you had known what to look out for? Retinoblastoma (Rb) is the most common paediatric eye cancer with 8,000 incident casesworldwide annually and approximately 90% of these are attributed…
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By Naadiya Seedat What if we could listen or look our way towards better mental health? That’s the promise behind a fascinating new approach to treating psychological disorders – one that uses music, light, and brain-computer interfaces to nudge the brain into healthier rhythms. It sounds like science fiction, but it’s rooted in real neuroscience.…
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By Maxene Rich Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) ruptures are considered one of the most critical musculoskeletal soft tissue injuries in the world. They severely impair knee function, require costly surgery, involve long recovery, and increase the risk of re-injury. Due to this, genetic susceptibility to injury has been explored to enable early detection and prevention.…
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By Enya Steyn In 1895, women in England played their first official football match. This turned into a series of successful games across the United Kingdom until 1921, when the Football Association banned women from using League and Association grounds , deeming the sport “unsuitable” for women. That ban was not fully lifted until 1989.…
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By Zinhle Radebe For millions of women worldwide, cervical cancer remains a threat. It ranks as the fourth most common cancer among women globally. While treatments like radiotherapy help treat cancer at all stages and reduce mortality, they are not always effective because cancer cells can develop resistance, making them harder to eliminate. Recent studies…
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By: Blessing Gumbu
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By: Siphamandla Mdingi Cervical cancer is the deadliest type of cancer that ranks as the second most commoncancer in South Africa, claiming more than 300,000 women’s lives a year globally. Thiscancer continues to have high prevalence despite the free cervical cancer screeningand vaccine services in the health facilities. The development of cervical cancer ismostly caused…
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by Mia Briner Levels 1 and 2 of hypertension are easy: do some yoga, eat some veggies, and boom, blood pressure remains healthy. By level 10, no amount of Sea Point promenade walks is going to stop your heart from pretending it’s in a Fast & Furious movie. So welcome to the final and hardest…
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By Emma van der Velden For many, pregnancy is a time of anticipation and joy but for some pregnant mothers in South Africathere may be an unknown risk that could detrimentally affect their own health as well as their baby’s.Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is a bacterium that lives quietly in the gut and reproductive tract…
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By Alexander Sittman “All disease begins in the gut” – Hippocrates circa 450 BCE An Introduction to the Gut-Brain Connection The Father of Modern Medicine, the great Hippocrates of Kos, is remembered for his uncanny prescience – his theory linking the gut to disease was, if not mechanistically, conceptually accurate. Pretty impressive for a guy…
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