NSFAS has halted funding for 5 000 students. NSFAS has stopped funding a total of 5 000 students for the 2020 academic year.This came after SARS revealed that the students declared total household family income above the R350 000 threshold.The affected students will have 14 days from the date of issue to petition this decision…
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The malaria drug is quickly falling out of favor with the medical community as a potential treatment for the disease. On the back of mounting concerns about hydroxychloroquine's safety, global pharmaceutical major Sanofi (NASDAQ:SNY) has quit providing it to COVID-19 patients enrolled in its clinical trials for the drug. It has also put a temporary…
The World Health Organization said Monday it had temporarily suspended clinical trials of hydroxychloriquine as a potential treatment for COVID-19 being carried out across a range of countries as a precautionary measure.The decision came after publication last week of a study in The Lancet which indicated that using the drug on COVID-19 patients could increase…
Here in the northern hemisphere, winter famously contributes to widespread vitamin D deficiency as sunlight exposure decreases. The trend is “very marked in clinical practice," Mary Gover, MD, an internal medicine doctor at Montefiore Einstein Advanced Care in New York City, tells SELF. What you might not know, however, is that vitamin D isn’t the
Your 30s and 40s are what some would consider the best years of your life. You’re no longer “figuring it out,” but you aren’t “old” by society’s ageist standards either. It should be a sweet spot—right? But despite the illusion of stability and security, it’s also common for anxiety and self-doubt to worsen during your
5 min read WHEN THE JUSTICE Department released a trove of Epstein-related files on January 30 and then pulled down thousands of pages after redaction failures exposed victims’ identifying information and explicit material, I felt a familiar gut-drop. Once again, the people with the least power were being asked to pay twice—first for the abuse