Affinity Junior Product Launch
Our Affinity Junior product is undergoing some sought-after changes. The Specific Stated Conditions benefit will now be covering a range of procedures specifically targeted towards children. In an effort to continually align our benefits with the needs of our clients, new procedures will be replacing...
Medical Schemes predicted to lose up to 2 million members after Tax Cut
The National Health Insurance (NHI) is a plan to improve public health care so that everyone receives the medical care that they need without being faced with heavy expenses. At least this is what the White Paper which was released in June 2017 proposes. There...
Are you stunting your child’s mental growth by exposing them to general anaesthesia?
The results of a recent study published in the medical journal Anaesthesiology (2017), has caused some controversy over the possible harmful long-term side effects of general anaesthesia when administered to children under the age of 3. General anaesthetic is used in common child related surgeries, including...
Fun and weird facts you may not know about the heart
Your heart is roughly the size of your fist. In an average life time the human heart beats more than 2.5 billion times. The first heart pacemakers plugged into a wall socket. Heart disease has been found in 3, 000 year old mummies. Your...
DIFFERENT TYPES OF HEART DISEASE
Cardiovascular disease, also called heart disease, includes numerous problems, many of which are related to a process called atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis is a condition that develops when plaques build up in the walls of the arteries. This build up narrows the arteries which makes it harder...
Vegetable protein cuts risk of an early menopause.
Eating tofu, soy and other foods high in vegetable protein cuts the risk of an early menopause by up to nearly 60 per cent, a major study has found.
Are children of single parents less satisfied with life?
On a scale of one to 10, such participants rated their life satisfaction 0.2 points lower than those from two-parent families, and 0.1 points lower than those whose parents separated their childhood.
Coconut oil, good or bad?
Some rub it on their hair and face, or cook their every meal in it.