Medical Miracles
Barbara Friedman presents ground breaking medical stories of South Africans from all walks of life, and the innovative medical teams that have brought about miracles to help them.
- Website
- http://www.lifenow.primedia.co.za
- Description
- Barbara Friedman presents ground breaking medical stories of South Africans from all walks of life, and the innovative medical teams that have brought about miracles to help them.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2023-12-23 10:59
- last episode published
- 2016-03-15 09:02
- publication frequency
- 6.08 days
- Contributors
- Primedia Broadcasting
- Author
- Gary Oberholzer
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 10
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- Detail page
- Categories
- Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2016-03-15 | A horrific accident sliced off a large part of a Cape Town man’s right hand, leaving him with only one finger. He was filled with despair, until a remarkable surgeon gave him new hope. |
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| 2016-02-24 | Urology specialist Prof Andre van der der Merwe heads up the Tygerberg Hospital unit, and he was moved after seeing the desperate plight of young men filling the wards every year. He became convinced he could successfully carry out the world’s first pe... |
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| 2016-01-28 |
CHILDHOOD DIABETES AND THE LATEST “ARTIFICIAL PANCREAS” TECHNOLOGY Type 1 Diabetes is being diagnosed in children younger and younger these days. Hear about the very latest development in the war against diabetes – an ‘airbag’ that shuts insulin delivery off at night if levels get to high while a child is sleeping – a... |
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| 2016-01-28 | The South African Bone Marrow Registry outlines their ‘military style’ operation in getting the essential bone marrow from donor to patient in the necessary 72-hour window available. It’s a streamlined highly efficient procedure – and the bone marrow n... |
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| 2016-01-28 |
AFFORDABLE IVF FERTILITY TREATMENT AND HAVING HEALTHY BABIES FOR HIV POSITIVE COUPLES For couples struggling to have a baby, IVF or in vitro fertility treatment is a potential solution – but it is exorbitantly expensive and usually out of reach for most middle class people, never mind those in lower income groups. Now the Gynecology and... |
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| 2016-01-28 |
NEW USE OF ULTRASOUND MACHINE TO DETECT BRAIN SWELLING IN CHILDREN Various viruses and other illness cause swelling in the brain. Intra cranial swelling must be identified as soon as possible to avoid brain damage. The problem with MRI and CAT scan equipment is it is expensive and only available in specialised centres... |
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| 2016-01-20 | Fibroids are benign tumours that grow in the wall of the womb plaguing the lives of millions of South African womb, for many it’s unbearable, causing unceasing bleeding, and even infertility. We hear from a South African woman who underwent a groundbre... |
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| 2016-01-20 | For decades the world that has focused on organ donor heart transplants as the only solution for a failing heart. Cape Town Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Willie Koen talks about the groundbreaking research that has resulted in this golf ball size mechanic... |
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| 2016-01-20 | Robotic surgery is not just something in science fiction movies as one might imagine – this robotic surgical system is being used right here in South Africa, to cure diseases like prostate cancer. |
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| 2016-01-20 | Premature babies born sub 25 weeks – are known as micro prems – and some neonatal units in South Africa have developed such advanced bio mimicry incubators – in other words an extra uterine womb as close to nature as possible – that these minute babies... |
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