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BizNews Health covers cutting-edge research, advances, opinions and debates in medicine, health and wellbeing from orthodox, complementary and alternative perspectives. We have a special focus on nutrition, fitness, longevity medicine, and prevention of non-communicable diseases – such as obesity, cancer, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke, increasingly mood disorders such as depression, and dementias. We include lifestyle and travel to healthy destinations, since mind and body are integrally connected, and optimum health is not just the absence of disease, but a state of complete physical, mental, and even spiritual wellbeing.
A short study was done to see how external factors influence the performance of a healthcare system on a country to country basis.
Public healthcare provision in KwaZulu-Natal has got so bad that hundreds of people – in this case cancer patients – have died through blatant lack of care.
Mental health threatens to take over from HIV/AIDs as the leading cause of illness in South Africa as medical aid claims have soared 80% in five years.
Jeremy Howick writes about the results of what he calls “open label” placebos – experiments where patients are actually told they’re being given a sugar coated shell rather than the real thing.
Aspen responded to UK reports which claim that it secretly planned to destroy life-saving cancer medicines as a threat to force countries in Europe to allow price hikes.
It’s just about flu season so should you get a flu vaccination or not? Find out more now to make the right choice.
The digital revolution is changing the way doctors work. Within the next few years, doctors’ workloads will be reduced, healthcare costs will be slashed, and diagnoses will be faster as the digital healthcare innovation reinvents the way medicine is practiced.
Derek Yach parts company with Yussuf Saloojee on e-cigarettes and harm reduction, saying it’s the smoke that kills, not the nicotine.
The words ‘preventative maintenance’ are an anathema to most municipal managers, and other deployed cadres at every level of service delivery in South Africa, as Ed Herbst so tellingly illustrates.
A new report released by Stats SA on mortality and causes of death in South Africa, indicates that 55.5 % of deaths can be attributed to non-communicable diseases, also known as lifestyle diseases.