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More well-trained midwives could alleviate SA obstetric crisis
With the crisis in obstetrics in South Africa there is no doubt that there should and now will be more focus on midwife deliveries...
WATCH: A trauma team on the battlefield of the Cape Flats
https://youtu.be/4ijh5mZC-RI
Cape Town has the highest number of reported assaults in SA and it is on the gang war battlefield of the Cape Flats that...
Sugared beverages: 'An enemy with a mask of a friend' – an edocrinologist's plea to Parliament
'It saddened me to see young students marching last year for free education while carrying sugary beverages.' Endocrinologist Dr Sundeep Ruder addresses a plea...
Getting the word out to off-the-beaten-track clinics
It's a perpetual challenge to get clinical information out to rural facilities. So Briony Chisholm, information pharmacist at the Medicines Information Centre of the University...
'Sometimes the biggest challenges in psychiatry are one's medical colleagues'
As a private psychiatrist, I often receive referrals of the sort: 'Mr X is severely stressed and depressed. Please take over management,’ No medical...