Tag: cancer
Glyphosate overuse in agriculture – the silent killer
By Diane Silcock
GLYPHOSATE, a toxic herbicide, introduced onto the market around five decades ago as a weed killer in agricultural farming, continues to attract...
New NGS-based pan-cancer panels
VELA Diagnostics has launched its new OncoKey® SL 60 and 525 Plus Panels. These next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based panels are intended for detection of DNA and...
Help Camps Bay High matric student, diagnosed with cancer, get treatment
Leeanne Osner, a 17-year-old Camps Bay High School Matric student, has been diagnosed with Stage III Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. And her family are appealing for...
What Cape Town’s pink trees represent
The Pink Trees for Pauline (PTFP) organisation, in collaboration with The Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) is adorning Cape Town’s trees with pink...
Groote Schuur unveils new cancer machine that can treat 40 patients a day
Groote Schuur hospital in Cape Town has unveiled a new radiotherapy machine worth R36m that can treat up to 40 patients a day.
Professor Jeannette...
Sleep deprivation costs SA economy billions
Terrible traffic and working too hard. Those are among the reasons South Africans say are killing their sleep patterns.
And it’s not only leading to...
Pharma Dynamics to recall drugs possibly tainted with cancer-causing toxins
The South African Health Products Regulatory Agency (Sahpra) has asked local drug firm Pharma Dynamics to urgently recall medicines for high blood pressure containing...
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