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Health economics research estimates that obesity cost South Africa approximately R33.2 billion in 2020, equivalent to about 15% of government health expenditure and roughly 0.67% of GDP. (Yunmai/Unsplash)
ANGELA MURPHY
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Obesity: the chronic disease that isn’t treated like one

A review of 37 studies found that when people stop taking weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, the weight comes back

  • Tanya Pampalone
  • Anna-Maria van Niekerk
  • Mia Malan
8 min read
A Covid-19 patient receives oxygen therapy to treat respiratory challenges at the Lagos State Isolation Centre, in Yaba, Lagos. – The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Nigeria is increasing rapidly following daily reports by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) even as Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, accounted for the highest number of cases in the country. (Photo by PIUS UTOMI EKPEI / AFP)
BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL

Living with Long Covid in Lagos

Most people recover from Covid‑19 quickly, but Long Haulers in Nigeria are turning to one another for support

  • Bolu Akindele
8 min read
A researcher linked to the British Medical Journal has called for European governments to sue Roche over the flu drug Tamiflu.
BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL

British Medical Journal slams Roche on Tamiflu

A leading medical journal is asking the drug maker Roche to release all its data on Tamiflu, claiming there is no evidence the drug can stop the flu.

  • Sapa Ap
2 min read
Drug companies are buying the opinion of doctors
BHEKISISA TEAM

Exposed: Bitter pill of bad pharma

A new book detailing how profit-hungry pharmaceutical companies mislead medical practitioners and harm patients may be just what the doctor ordered.

  • Staff Reporter
7 min read
AMSTERDAM

Euthanasia still a dilemma for Dutch doctors

”I am not a monster. I’m also not a God. In the best case I’m an angel,” muses a doctor in a Dutch play about euthanasia, before delivering a lethal injection to an old friend, a…

  • Emma Thomasson
6 min read