Government estimates that total funding for COVID-19 vaccines could come to R19.3bn, and it is prepared to fund this through the budget and – if necessary – withdrawals from the contingency reserve and emergency allocations, Fin24 reports...News Update
A leaked European Commission plan to combat cancer envisages a tobacco free generation by 2040 with stricter regulation of e-cigarettes, heated tobacco products, as well as increasing taxes on alcohol, curbing its promotion, and restricting sales,...News Update
The University of Cape Town released its report into the suicide two years ago of Health Sciences dean, Professor Bongani Mayosi, reports MedicalBrief. The independent report draws a picture of “a complex set of developments which had a cumulative...News Update
The controversial "precautionary suspension" of one of North West Health’s senior clinicians two weeks ago has been lifted, with Professor Ebrahim Variava returning to his post as head of internal medicine at the Klerksdorp Tshepong Hospital in...News Update
Gauteng doctors say that oxygen stocks are running low and that the testing system, already under strain, is malfunctioning, reports Daily Maverick.
Doctors in Gauteng report that hospitals are beginning to fill up and oxygen is running low....News Update
South Africa's COVID-19 infection rate continues to rise rapidly approaching an expected “exponential” surge during the latter winter months of July and August areas of high economic activity, warns Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize.
The Times...News Update
It has been a very dark week in the Eastern Cape as all the unheeded warnings, the hidden agendas, patchy leadership and years of procrastination and misguided priorities all seemed to hit at once, creating a perfect storm and confirming what many...News Update
The Council of Medical Schemes (CMS) has stepped in to halt the proposed merger of black-owned Sizwe Medical Aid and Hosmed Medical Scheme, in what may be “a serious blow to the much-needed transformation of the sector”, writes a Mail &...News Update
Yet another Eastern Cape hospital is on the brink of collapse because stay-away actions by general assistants, including porters and hospital cleaners, and nurses have been refusing to return to large parts of the hospital as these areas have not...News Update
The US has bought up virtually all the stocks for the next three months of one of the two drugs proven to work against COVID-19, leaving none for the UK, Europe or most of the rest of the world, reports The Guardian. Experts and campaigners are...News Update
One of the Eastern Cape’s most important rural hospitals has become a ghost facility after doctors and nurses walked out, leaving patients to fend for themselves or rely on managers for treatment, reports DispatchLIVE.
The decision by most of...News Update
A Mediclinic facility in Johannesburg has joined two Durban Netcare facilities in closing its doors to new admissions, while KZN Health has given Netcare a week to move dialysis patients from its separately housed dialysis centre at St Augustine's,...News Update
British American Tobacco (BAT) is marketing e-cigarettes and heated cigarettes with pictures of attractive models and using hashtags such as “I dare you to try it”, despite a crackdown last year after it paid social media influencers to promote...
July 3rd, 2019High expectations among the UK public of the benefits of medicinal cannabis are being disappointed because doctors are unwilling to prescribe it in the knowledge that there is little evidence to stand up some of the claims. MSN reports that this is...
June 12th, 2019Independent experts of a US Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted in favour of the not-for-profit TB Alliance’s treatment for drug resistant tuberculosis, as a part of a three-drug combination regimen. Reuters Health reports that the...
The advisory body that guides the Health minister on medicine price increases says there is no ambiguity in the formula it applied, contrary to the view put out by the industry on Monday. Business Day reports that pharmaceutical manufacturers are...
