October 17th, 2018As ketamine clinics pop up across the US to offer experimental infusions for depression, anxiety, and a slew of other conditions, training programmes to teach providers how to run these businesses have also started to appear. Stat News reports that...
October 10th, 2018It seems like such a glamorous life. Travelling the world and representing your country, all global events and plush hotels. Elite athletes must have it all. But, says a Daily Maverick report, having it all means having the vulnerability of being...
October 10th, 2018There are signs that the National Health Insurance (NHI) has the potential not only to be hijacked by commercial interest groups, but is tumbling down the slippery slope of xenophobia, write Glenda Gray, the president of the South African Medical...
October 10th, 2018Euthanasia, with its etymology rooted in the Greek language, meaning "good death", is a contentious as well as paramount conversation that needs to be had in South Africa, write Ashleigh du Sart, candidate attorney at Hogan Lovells and supervising...
October 3rd, 2018SA Health Minister Dr Aaron Mostoaledi has cited overcrowding as a root cause of recent Klebsiella-related infant deaths. However, while the number of beds indicates access to care, it does not necessarily translate into good clinical outcomes,...
October 3rd, 2018
Enthusiasm for an emerging digital health tool, the smart pill, is on the rise but researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago caution health care providers and policymakers to slow down when it comes to allowing this technology in...
September 26th, 2018Ketamine gives hope to patients with severe depression, reports a Stat News investigation. But usage in the US is booming, with clinics hyping its benefits and using marketing gimmicks such as 'proprietary blends'.
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September 26th, 2018Scientific and medical institutions must fundamentally reconsider how they address sexual harassment in the workplace, three US leaders in gender equity in medicine argue. The viewpoint comes in response to publication of a report by the National...
September 19th, 2018The revenue-strapped Zimbabwe government has launched a crowdfunding campaign to deal with an outbreak of cholera that has so far killed 30 people, angering many citizens over the ‘misuse’ of state funds, reports the BBC.
The report says new...
September 19th, 2018
A the expulsion of a board member of the Cochrane Collaboration, one of medicine's most respected bodies for its reviews of clinical research, has raised questions on the limits of free speech, when it is perceived to damage an organisation's...
September 12th, 2018World Health Organisation, figures show that measles cases in in Europe the first six months of 2018 exceeded the annual total for each of the past five years, with vaccination rates in some regions falling below levels in Africa.
Each year, as...
September 12th, 2018
Despite an emphatic assurance by SA's Health Ombudsman that ‘no prima facie evidence of institutionalised systematic or deliberate violations of human rights by staff was found’, the evidence strongly suggest otherwise, writes Jay Kruuse,...
September 5th, 2018‘No safe level of alcohol’ screamed headlines last week. They were inspired by the publication of a massive study, part of the ‘Global Burden of Disease’ series in The Lancet, which used data from 694 previous studies to estimate how common...
September 5th, 2018While it is not surprising that the SA Federation of Trade Unions has an issue with a private system of healthcare, it is incorrect to call it a "racialised" system, writes Marius Roodt, a campaign manager at the Institute of Race Relations...
September 5th, 2018Whatever the current failures of the proposed National Health Insurance scheme, it has the potential "to move the country towards socio-economic equality by prioritising a vision where the health system itself is a re-distributive...
August 29th, 2018South Africa's private healthcare sector, dominated by a few players, allows non-competitive behaviour such as collusion and excessive pricing tends to thrive, writes Professor Frederik Booysen of the University of the Witwatersrand, in The...
