by Chandré Blignaut | Sep 7, 2020 | Featured, News, SAJCN
South Africans should prioritise gut health as a focus area for intervention to achieve their nutrition and health goals The One Health Summit themed Your Gut’s Instinct took place on the 27th of August 2020. The event, hosted in webinar format given the current...
by Chandré Blignaut | Aug 27, 2020 | Featured, News, SAJCN
Rooibos industry donates 78 000 cups of tea to boost morale at hospitals as brave doctors and nurses battle the coronavirus pandemic To keep SA’s army of healthcare workers fighting the pandemic on the frontlines healthy and hydrated, the Rooibos industry has donated...
by Chandré Blignaut | Aug 30, 2019 | Featured, JEMDSA, News, SAFP, SAJAA, SAJCN, SAJGO, SAJS, WHSA
Systems harm patients more than doctors Hospital Association of South Africa A culture of “name, blame and shame,” in medicine drastically reduces the potential for system changes to improve patient safety, the Hospital Association of South Africa’s...
by Chantelle Janse van Rensburg | Mar 12, 2018 | Featured, Journals, News, PNT, SAFP, SAJCN, SAPA, SAPJ
SALT AWARENESS WEEK (12-18 MARCH): THERE COULD BE MORE TO SA’s SALT ADDICTION… As South Africans, we love salting our food, but the more salt we consume, the more at risk it puts us of heart disease and stroke, which annually claims the lives of 78 475 people in our...
by Chantelle Janse van Rensburg | Nov 14, 2017 | AJCOR, Featured, JEMDSA, Journals, News, PNT, SAFP, SAJAA, SAJCN, SAJGO, SAJID, SAJS, SAPJ, WHSA
INNOVATIVE PHARMA COMPANY LAUNCHES NEW ‘BUG WISE’ APP TO CURB ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE Antibiotic resistance (ABR) has increased worldwide, largely because of the overuse and misuse of antibiotic medications, but if left unchecked, experts fear it could claim up to 10...
