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Medical school prepares our future doctors to save lives. But with death being the endpoint for all of us, shouldn’t we be talking about it? Photo: Maria Luísa Queiroz/Unsplash
BIOETHICS

Let’s talk about death and dying

Medical school coursework includes teaching Western medicine’s standard ethical principle including discussions about patients’ rights, but what is not talked about is what death…

  • Heidi Matisonn
7 min read
New report warns future heatwaves will lie outside range of human experience. Photo by: VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
CLIMATE CHANGE

How SA is preparing for the killer heatwaves of the future

New report warns future heatwaves will lie outside range of human experience

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read
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AIDS

Letter to UNAids: End Aids deaths by 2030

Setting new 90-90-90 targets for CD4 testing, cryptococcal antigen, and TB testing, and treatment, aligned to the WHO AHD package of care would be a positive step towards ending…

  • Open Letter
4 min read
Relief: A man uses fans spraying air mixed with water vapour to cool down in a street in Iraq’s capital Baghdad during June’s severe heat wave. Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images
ALS PARAMEDICS

South Africa unprepared for intense heatwaves of the next 20 years

Garrith Jamieson and his paramedic colleagues were on high alert days before a scorching heatwave struck Durban earlier this month. With the mercury expected to soar to 40°C and…

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read
The recent floods damaged these crops more than wheat and canola. Notably, there are reportedly quality issues in barley, and the extent of it will be clear in the coming weeks. (Mike Hutchings/Reuters)
ALIZE LE ROUX

Cities will feel the heat from climate change

South Africa’s urban areas are urban heat islands and heat waves will intensify the distress

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read
A new international study has shown that obesity or an increased body mass index (BMI) is not associated with increased mortality in Covid-19 patients. (Photo by Varuth Pongsapipatt/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
BODY MASS INDEX

Study finds obesity is not associated with Covid-19 deaths

But an increased BMI remains a continuous risk-factor in Covid-19 patients being admitted to ICU

  • Eyaaz Matwadia
2 min read