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Ketamine has been used for decades as an anaesthetic drug, but in the past few years, more and more psychiatrists have been using it for hard-to-treat depression ...

Scientists from the UK and South Africa have discovered a surprising new role for a commonly-used antibiotic that could open the door to a new family of improved therapies for high blood pressure and ...

Scientists from the UK and South Africa have discovered a surprising new role for a commonly-used antibiotic that could open the door to a new family of improved therapies for high blood pressure ...

Because antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) keep people healthy and increase their life expectancy, the scale-up of treatment in South Africa - public sector treatment started in 2004 and in 2025 we've ...

Background Nonadherence to blood pressure (BP)‐lowering medication is a strong predictor of poor BP control. Sub‐Saharan Africa has extremely low BP control rates (~10%), but it is unclear what the ...

For example, atrial fibrillation raised the odds of a severe stroke by nearly five times. Regions like South Asia and Africa had the highest rates of severe stroke, highlighting global health ...