For the past few weeks, there has been understandable excitement that vaccines to inoculate people against the Covid-19 virus have […]
Posts Tagged ‘Prevention’
Patients Held to Ransom
Imagine this scenario. You have just been diagnosed by your cardiologist with a heart arrhythmia and she advocates the implantation […]
Beneath the Hanging Rock
In 45 BC, the Roman philosopher Cicero referred to the “Sword of Damocles” and over time this parable has come to mean […]
War: A Harmful Metaphor?
It has become commonplace to hear expressions such as “fighting the war on cancer” or even “she’s a warrior intent […]
I Am And I Will
This past Monday, 4 February 2019, was the 20th occasion to mark World Cancer Day. Emanating from the Charter of Paris, the […]
Taking the Initiative
Earlier this year the Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) celebrated its fifth anniversary. The aim of […]
Night Shifts Can Be Risky
The International Commission on Occupational Health held its triennial congress in Dublin, Ireland two weeks ago, where the opening keynote speaker was […]
The Colour’s Coming Back
This coming Sunday, 4 February, is World Cancer Day 2018, an initiative of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) that […]
March for Science
This past Saturday, 22 April 2017, hundreds of thousands of people participated in over 600 gatherings as part of the […]
Growing Cancer Burden for Women
The American Cancer Society (ACS) presented a paper at a congress in Paris this week, warning of an explosion in cancer deaths […]