It is the aim of the current government that primary health care should be established in South Africa to address the health care needs of the entire South African population. In this regard midwives are seen as the key ...

English: The incidence of the western diseases, atherosclerosis, CHD and stroke is progressively rising in black populations worldwide and in South Africa. Stroke is an important cause of death in black populations in South ...

The gold mines In the Free State Goldfields extract and process ore from underground, which contains naturally radioactive uranium and its associated decay products. This assessment aimed to cost effectively determine the ...

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In this study a method is described whereby the dose distributions calculated by any treatment planning system (TPS) could be evaluated using dose distributions calculated with Monte Carlo simulations. The Monte Carlo ...

English: AIDS is a fatal disease which mostly affects the economically productive age-group (25-50 years). It therefore adversely affects the economy of the country. It is also expensive to treat as it affects the immune ...

English: HIV infection causes AIDS, a communicable, stigmatised and terminal disease. It leads to the progressive deterioration of the immune system that ends in death. HIV infection affects the total human being. Never ...

English: All women with breast cancer need support to deal with the combined impact of the diagnosis of cancer, breast loss, adjuvant treatment and the possible recurrence of the disease. The women need to adjust to live ...

S. aureus, is undoubtedly the most pathogenic of the Staphylococcus species, having the ability to produce invasive and toxigenic infections. Historically, the less virulent coagulase-negative staphylococci (ENS) were ...

Afrikaans: Inleiding en doel van die studie 'n Gedetaileerde opname oor rehabilitasiedienste en -behoeftes van die Drakensberg Streeksdiensteraad in die Barkly-Oos distrik is in 1995 gemaak. Die distrik is 'n tipiese ...