Personal identity may fall at the mercy of sophisticated hackers on many websites, but when it comes to health data breaches, hospitals, doctors’ offices and even insurance companies are oftentimes the culprits, a US study found. Research from...
December 5th, 2018A study has found that 60% to 80% of people surveyed have not been forthcoming with their doctors about information that could be relevant to their health. Besides fibbing about diet and exercise, more than a third of respondents didn't speak up...
November 28th, 2018The SA Private Practitioners Forum has lodged a complaint with the Council for Medical Schemes that the two largest medical schemes — Discovery and GEMS — are ‘circumventing’ payment for Prescribed Minimum Benefits. Meanwhile, at a media...
September 12th, 2018The SA experience of compulsory Community Service (CS) over the first 15 years has been 'overwhelmingly positive', largely meeting objectives of redistribution of health professionals and professional development, found a University of Cape Town...
September 5th, 2018The Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF) has called on the government to consider regulating where private sector doctors and specialists work, in order to distribute their services more evenly across the country, reports Business Day....
August 8th, 2018A large US study found higher mortality among female heart attack patients treated by male doctors than those treated by women. Male and female patients experience similar outcomes when treated by female physicians, suggesting that unique challenges...
Many technology companies are working on artificial intelligence systems that can analyse medical data to help diagnose or treat health problems. Such systems raise the question of whether this kind of technology can perform as well as a human...
August 1st, 2018University of Cape Town Vice-Chancellor Mamokgethi Phakeng owes students an apology for aggravating the 'trauma' students experienced at the suicide of Professor Bongani Mayosi , writes Mohammed Abdullah.
"Like many former students –...
August 1st, 2018The suicide of Professor Bongani Mayosi – a cardiologist‚ researcher‚ and dean of health sciences at the University of Cape Town – has been attributed some to the pressure he had to endure from abusive protesting students. It again...
August 1st, 2018
Following the suicide of Professor Bonging Mayosi, South Africans cannot deny the oppositional tide unleashed against anyone who dared to speak critically about the student protests of 2015-17, writes Siseko Kumalo.
Addressing the media on...
Physicians who work in small, independent primary care practices – also known as SIPs – report dramatically lower levels of burnout than the US national average (13.5% versus 54.4%), according to a study led by researchers at NYU School of...Medical Practice
Health care leaders have for years been calling for patients to have a greater say in their care, but, dishearteningly, doctors’ beliefs outweigh patient values at the end of life, a Harvard study into cancer patients found.
Stat News writes...
July 4th, 2018The forced return to France of the first doctor to prescribe antiretrovirals in SA, has sparked an impassioned call from Treatment Action Campaign for the powers of the Health Professions Council of SA to register foreign-trained doctors be curbed....
July 4th, 2018A ground-breaking study has concluded that patients who see the same doctor over time have lower death rates. The study, a collaboration between St Leonard’s Practice in Exeter, the University of Exeter Medical School and the University of...
July 4th, 2018Its commercial artificial intelligence diagnostics software performs better than humans in the Royal College of General Practitioner’s exam that must be passed to become a qualified GP doctor in the UK an AI company claims.
Babylon Healthcare...
July 4th, 2018Women struggle to get their needs met by doctors because the profession is “overwhelmingly male”, a health minister in the UK has suggested. Jackie Doyle-Price, the minister for mental health, is quoted in The Guardian as saying that in her...
