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Mandela battled lung infection, a chronic ailment

Source: FindLaw: AP Professional News, Dec 11 2012, 9:21am CST

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Military doctors are treating South Africa's former President Nelson Mandela for a recurring lung infection, an ailment the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader remains susceptible to because of his age and his 27 years in prison. Govern ...

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Use more clinincs, says MEC

Source: Independent Online (South Africa)  |   May 23 2013, 6:49am CDT

Johannesburg - Gauteng residents should make more use of clinics to help ease a strain on hospitals in the province, Health MEC Hope Papo said on Thursday. “We call on our people to make use of clinics for minor ailments and to c ...

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Hospital chief fired over illegal immigrant's tuberculosis death

Source: El Pais   |   May 23 2013, 6:27am CDT

The regional government of the Balearic Islands on Wednesday dismissed the managing director of a Mallorca hospital following an ongoing inquiry into the death of an undocumented Senegalese immigrant from tuber ...

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Donate to Eddie Izzard’s South Africa Fund

Source: Sky1 HD  |   May 23 2013, 5:21am CDT

Eddie is using his marathons to raise money for various charities that Nelson Mandela supports in South Africa. The fund, Eddie Izzard’s South Africa Fund is administered by Comic Relief and supports the work of organisations working to help disa ...

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11 hours ago

Consensus Statement On Research Definitions For Drug-Resistant TB In Children

Source: Medical News Today  |   May 23 2013, 4:17am CDT

Main Category: Tuberculosis Also Included In: Pediatrics / Children's Health; Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses; MRSA / Drug Resistance Article Date: 23 May 2013 - 1:00 PDT The Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Disease ...

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Get up, stand up...stand up for what's right!

Source: News24  |   May 23 2013, 2:30am CDT

The time has come for South Africans to stand up for what is right. We live in one of most beautiful countries in the world, but where will we be ten or twenty years from now if we continue along our current path? There ...

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SA Makes Presence Felt At Cannes

Source: AllAfrica.com  |   May 23 2013, 1:32am CDT

South Africa is making its presence felt at the 66th Cannes International Film Festival, where three SA features have been well received, the first image of the highly anticipated Nelson Mandela biopic has gone public, and crime thriller Zulu ...

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Respiratory diseases on the rise

Source: Times of India  |   May 23 2013, 1:29am CDT

GUWAHATI: With vehicular and dust pollution taking on alarming proportions in the city, respiratory diseases like asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pneumonia, tuberculosis are emerging as major health ...

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[Media Watch] The unfinished history of tuberculosis

Source: The Lancet  |   May 22 2013, 7:18pm CDT

outline goes here Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis begins with George Orwell. The writer of 1984 “drowned in his own blood after a severe lung haemorrhage on 21 January 1950”. Author Helen Bynum contends that “Orwell die ...

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Screening Reduces TB in Prisons

Source: AllAfrica.com  |   May 22 2013, 10:41am CDT

Screening of prisoners as they join cells has reduced Tuberculosis infections in prisons, the in charge of medical services at Luzira Upper Prison Dr. Joshua Oluka has said. According to the Prisons medical service, previo ...

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