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Keep your child’s health data – including newborn screening results – safe from birth

In a game-changing development for healthcare, parents can start building a lifelong medical record for their children from birth, thanks to a partnership between personal digital health vault Ajuda and the National Metabolomics Platform (NMP), hosted at the Centre for Human Metabolomics at North-West University. The partnership will see a baby’s newborn screening results uploaded […]

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Understanding prostate cancer and the power of early detection

Did you know that prostate cancer is the second most common cancer among men? Around 11% of men will face this diagnosis in their lifetime. But there’s hope: early detection is key. What puts you at risk? Screening saves lives Depending on your risk factors, screening could start as early as 40. Don’t wait –

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Urology Hospital to offer free kidney health screening

Chronic kidney disease (CKD), a gradual and irremediable loss of kidney function (kidney failure), affects up to one in eight South Africans, more than 850 million people worldwide, and resulted in over 3.1 million deaths (2019). Fundamentally, untreated kidney failure can be life-threatening. Presently, kidney disease ranks as the 8th leading cause of death, and if not addressed, is projected to be the 5th leading cause

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