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INDONESIA: Climate change brings new disease threats
The rapid change in the world's climate is putting Indonesia at greater risk of infectious diseases, according to health specialists. 16 May 2008 15:11

Laughter really is the best medicine
A new study has shown that a blend of yoga and laughter can significantly lower blood pressure. 16 May 2008 15:05

Carry on treating high blood pressure - even in old age
Reduction in blood pressure is beneficial in those younger and older than 65. 16 May 2008 14:35

SA: High food prices cripple orphan feeding programmes
Elizabeth Kineelwe, the cook at a drop-in centre that provides meals and support to orphans and impoverished families in Soweto, Johannesburg's largest township, is on the frontlines of a nationwide struggle to cope with rising food prices. Lately, she has been cooking a lot of cabbage soup. 16 May 2008 07:52

Nigeria: Toxic grain threatens food security
The hospitalisation of 116 girls after consuming beans sprayed with harmful pesticides at a secondary school in northern Nigeria's Gombe State on 18 April has raised concerns about how dry foods are stored all around the country. 16 May 2008 07:26

Liberia: Living with fistula
Of 600 rape victims recently interviewed by a Liberian non-governmental organisation, 90 percent of the women were found to be suffering from fistulas - a vaginal tear which results in loss of bladder control and social stigmatisation. 16 May 2008 07:21

Choose life, not tobacco - CANSA
Be smart, never start. This is the message from the Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) for its anti-tobacco campaign in May leading up to World No Tobacco Day on 31 May. This year's theme is Youth Against Tobacco, so CANSA encourages all young people to be smart and never start this deadly habit in any shape or form. Avoid cigarettes, snus, snuff, hookah pipes and hubbly bubbly. 16 May 2008 17:16

PinkLink launches online breast risk assessment tool
Set to revolutionise breast cancer awareness and education PinkLink, a breast cancer advocacy organisation is launching the 5 minutes to LIVE initiative. 16 May 2008 14:29

African business coalitions formalise organisation against HIV/AIDS
African business coalitions have created the Pan African Business Coalition (PABC) on HIV/AIDS, which aims to facilitate information sharing and knowledge management on issues around HIV/AIDS on the continent. 16 May 2008 11:13

Competition to raise awareness of diabetes among youth
A competition is being run to motivate teenagers living with diabetes to share their inspirational stories. 16 May 2008 11:09

Wits health communication project hosts COMET 2008
The Wits Health Communication Project will host the 2008 Conference on Communication on Medicine and Ethics (COMET) for the first time in Africa this year. The conference brings together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds in medicine, the humanities and the social sciences. 16 May 2008 11:03

Danone Clover launches ‘Caring for your Children' campaign 2008
Danone Clover has launched its Danone Clover Kids 'Caring for Our Children' 2008 campaign, making this the fifth successive year in which they has shown their big-hearted support for children with cancer. 16 May 2008 10:56

Europe's finest to learn from SA cardiologist
Thousands watch the screen carefully as his hands work. On screen, a living heart pumps while a small wire threads its way across the image - carefully, deliberately - far finer and more delicate than imaginable. 15 May 2008 12:28

Dual drug class resistance in two-thirds of those failing antiretroviral therapy in South Africa 13 May 2008 10:20

One in 40 patients presenting to UK emergency departments has HIV 13 May 2008 10:17

Uptake of human papilloma virus vaccine by school girls in Manchester 13 May 2008 10:15

Folic acid supplementation does not reduce cardiac risk in high-risk women 13 May 2008 10:14

Early uptake of malaria treatment needed during pregancy 11 May 2008 15:13