Category: Health

 

There has to be a fairly compelling reason to subject your body to temperatures ranging between -120°C and -160°C with liquid nitrogen vapour. Several in fact.

THE TREATMENT IS CALLED Whole Body Cryotherapy (WBC) and your therapy consists of exposing your body to temperatures below the coldest natural temperatures ever recorded on earth – a process which your body unsurprisingly interprets as a reason to panic. This damage control is in the form of a series of physiological processes which give your body the equivalent of a facelift – reason enough?

Continue reading “The Big Chill”

The National Institute for Occupational Health (NIOH) – part of the National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) – is the only multidisciplinary specialised state occupational health service in South Africa. It is not only the scientific resource to all industries nationally, but a player within and outside the African continent. Apart from assisting with the draft­ing of regulations and providing specialised services and laboratories, staff is also involved in research, teaching, and specialised skills training.

Continue reading “Where to NIOH?”

Nanotechnology has the ingenuity of a lillipution meccano-come-chemistry set where scientists manipulate the secrets of nature. Think a sub-microscopic lab bench on which you can handle cell components, viruses or pieces of DNA, using a range of tiny tools, robots and tubes.

Continue reading “The next big thing is small”

Often the villain when it comes to skin damage, light may just be an unlikely hero in the ageing wars.

Continue reading “Look on the Light Side of Life”

When journalist Kathy Malherbe was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 40, her biggest fear was leaving her two young sons behind. Justin was 8 and Philip was 11. “I made a pact with whoever was listening to please just let me see them matriculate … I sometimes think now I should have asked for longer, as in the year my youngest went into matric, I received my second diagnosis,” she says wryly.

Continue reading “Living life to the full after breast cancer”