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Peer-to-peer heart monitoring
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 09, 2009 |
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The possibility of remote monitoring for chronically ill patients will soon become a reality. Now, researchers in South Africa and Australia have devised a decentralized system to avoid medical data overload. They describe ...
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South Africa in grip of strangulation spate
Oct 21, 2008 |
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Murder of women by strangulation is a serious problem in South Africa. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Public Health compared four South African cities for the period 2001 to 2005, and report information about ...
Earlier AIDS drug treatment would save 76,000 lives over 5 years
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Early initiation of lifesaving antiretroviral therapies should be the standard of care for all HIV-infected patients, even those in countries with limited medical and financial resources, according to a study ...
Earlier HIV antiviral treatment can be cost effective in areas of limited resources
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 20, 2009 |
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Early initiation of lifesaving antiretroviral therapies should be the standard of care for all HIV-infected patients, even those in countries with limited medical and financial resources, according to a study led by researchers ...
HIV treatment in Africa as successful as in Europe, if started in time
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 08, 2008 |
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The public health approach to HIV treatment, in which a limited number of drug combinations is used for all patients in South African programs, works just as well as the highly individualized approach to drug selection used ...
Delayed breeding is not necessarily costly to lifetime reproductive success
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Apr 05, 2007 |
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Using 24 years of data from the longest-running study of a cooperative bird species on the African continent, researchers at the Universities of Bristol and Cape Town have cast doubt on one of the biggest assumptions in behavioral ...
Diamonds reveal deep source of platinum deposits
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 11, 2008 |
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The world's richest source of platinum and related metals is an enigmatic geological structure in South Africa known as the Bushveld Complex. This complex of ancient magmas is known to have formed some two ...
Diamond mining is not forever, SAfrica learns
Aug 23, 2009 |
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The glittering diamonds are almost gone and as the lustre fades on South Africa's Diamond Coast, desperate ghost towns are left clinging to the last signs of life.
Efavirenz-based initial therapies associated with better outcomes in HIV-infected adults
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Oct 14, 2008 |
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A study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that HIV-infected patients taking the antiretroviral drug efavirenz were more likely to adhere to treatment and less likely to experience ...
Food insecurity linked with HIV/AIDS in Africa
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Mar 19, 2008 |
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Determining how the HIV/AIDS epidemic increases food insecurity in African cities – and what can be done to reduce the chances of this happening –is the focus of a new, international Queen’s-led project.
TB vaccine enters new clinical trials
Medicine & Health / Medications
Apr 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The world’s leading candidate for a tuberculosis vaccine, developed at the University of Oxford, is to enter Phase IIb proof-of-concept clinical trials, making it the first TB candidate vaccine ...
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