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Noncommunicable diseases
Diabetes is South Africa's second biggest killer disease: hiking the sugar tax would help









Noncommunicable diseases
SA Diabetes Alliance calls for urgent national diabetes education programme


Healthcare
Gambia police link child deaths to cough syrup imported by US firm
Sofia Christensen 12 Oct 2022

Public Health
Dozens of child deaths prompt Gambia to suspend paracetamol syrup sales
Pap Saine 14 Sep 2022




Noncommunicable diseases
Our research shows gaps in South Africa's diabetes management programme
Patrick Ngassa Piotie, Elizabeth M Webb & Paul Rheeder 11 May 2021


Noncommunicable diseases
Diabetes is a ticking time bomb in Sub-Saharan Africa
Chinwe Juliana Iwu-Jaja, Andre Pascal Kengne & Charles Shey Wiysonge 13 Nov 2020

Noncommunicable diseases
Weekly injection could treat type 2 diabetes, new enzyme discovery suggests
Magdalene Montgomery & Matthew Watt 4 Sep 2020



Infectious Diseases
Scientists still searching for causes of mysterious pneumonia outbreak in China
Ririn Ramadhany 24 Jan 2020


Nutrition
Diabetes in the family - It's all for one, and one for all
Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 14 Nov 2019


Public Health
Are foreigners really entitled to free healthcare in South Africa?
Sasha Stevenson 13 Mar 2019

Nutrition
All the ways that Dietitians Do Prevention
Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 4 Jun 2018



Noncommunicable diseases
Putting money where the mouth is - sugar, public health and the advertising industry
Deborah Minors 18 Jan 2018





Public Health
What lies beneath: the bugs lurking in your swimming pool
Simon Reid and Una Ryan 5 Jan 2016








Medical Research
Surprising mechanism discovered in polycystic kidney disease
Helen Dodson 31 Jul 2013

Noncommunicable diseases
Giving high blood pressure the 'squeeze' this World Health Day
Laurence Hillman 5 Apr 2013

Medical Research
Aggressively controlling glucose levels may not reduce kidney failure in type-2 diabetes
Karen N. Peart 29 May 2012
