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'One-China' bully-boy's bluff called
Chinese President Jiang Zemin's 'one China' ideology that guides international relations with Beijing needs a serious rethink, writes JIM HOAGLAND. LIKE so many others before him, Chinese President Jiang Zemin has learned the high costs of gett...

Therapeutic power of water to heal
THE WORD HYDROTHERAPY is derived from the Greek word hydor (water) and therapeia (healing). Hydrotherapy is as old as the history of mankind and information on activity in water for both therapeutic and recreational purposes has been well docume...

The truth about eyes
THERE ARE as many, if not more, misconceptions about the eyes as any other part of the body. These may be a cause of concern to patients or even lead to inappropriate investigation and treatment. The truth is: 1. The eyes are not damaged by: re...

Making primary care affordable
THE FIRST primary health care clinic for persons without medical aid and their dependants to be established by Prime Cure Clinics in the East London metropol is due to be launched within the next three to four months, one of 26 such clinics provid...

British Airways Travel Clinic in East London
EAST LONDON is privileged to have one of only four South African based British Airways Travel Clinics. These clinics are spread all over the world with a further 33 internationally. Travel health information which is updated daily via a Masta Da...

Looking at laser refractive surgery
IT'S NOT DIFFICULT to find in East London, people whose vision has been considerably improved by laser surgery of some kind or another. There are many different types of laser, named after their source of energy, and their effect depending upon t...

Rejuvenation on a cellular level
MICROLIFT non-surgical face and body lift treatment was launched in East London at the end of May to a positive response. At each launch -- there were three of them -- a model had one treatment done on half of her face, and it showed immediate r...

Give the gift of life -- give blood
IN THE BORDER area alone 44000 units of safe blood are needed every year. The Border Blood Transfusion Service serves an area of five million people and of these 15000 are active blood donors. A unit of blood has a shelf life of 28 days, so a c...

A cost effective medical cover
THE MAJORITY of South African families cannot afford traditional fee-for-service medical cover, and many employers are unable to provide medical aid to all their staff, according to Dr Johan Pretorius, medical director of Medicross. "Companies a...

Natural hearing by computer
FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD Nicholas Grobbelaar is no ordinary schoolboy. He is an accomplished flautist and soprano soloist in the Drakensberg Boys' chamber choir, as well as an active hiker, abseiler and rugby enthusiast. Most astonishing of all, though,...

Be involved in your healthcare
AS A PATIENT one is sometimes overwhelmed by medical terminology, in awe of the caregivers and often completely trusting of the system in which we have placed our wellbeing. We expect the medical fraternity, be it doctors, pharmacists, dentists a...

Full range of plastic surgery services at ELPH
THE BORDER REGION is set to benefit from plastic and reconstructive surgery's full range of applications as Border Hospitals open a new plastic and reconstructive surgical unit at East London Private Hospital. In keeping with their policy of dev...

STARSCOPE by William Smith
ARIES (Mar 21 - Apr 21): Determination is your key to progress in the external world. Gear yourself up to being mentally astute and physically active. Make a change for the better; good planning should enable you to get the maximum reward for your...

Detective Dispatch strikes again
Doing the basics I AM NOT a policeman, but from all the stories I have read and all those cop TV programmes I have watched, I realise that police work is as much about the process of elimination as it is about high-speed chases through the mean s...

All through the night for one bronzed shoe
DAVID DUFFEY is one of those men who live for road running, and he looks the part: lean, gaunt even, with sunken cheeks and big eyes. But as Bruce Fordyce used to say: "When people say I'm looking terrible I know I'm ready for Comrades." Not ma...

Women still can't call the shots
WHILE women's participation in politics and decision-making bodies is improving in several southern African countries, campaigners say women are still concentrated in professions traditionally reserved for females. Governments in the region agree...