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No elevated cardiac risk in ultramarathon runners

July 10th, 2019 Researchers have found no evidence of elevated cardiac risk in runners who completed a 24-hour ultramarathon (24UM), despite the transient elevation of blood biomarkers...

Medico-Legal

Insurer’s attack medical regulator’s ‘brutal violation of constitutional rights’

The out-of-the blue decision to end private-sector primary healthcare cover in March 2021 was “a brutal violation” of constitutional rights...

Eskom crisis may be dwarfed by the looming NHI disaster

As much as the country is currently focused on the crisis in Eskom, the nation seems to have lost sight of the looming National Health Insurance...

Health experts divided over whether Big Tobacco’s ‘smoke-free world’ strategy be trusted

Public health experts are divided on whether tobacco industry efforts to reduce health impacts and death through smoke-free products should be...

Trying to turn the tide on Africa’s avoidable deaths

Nowhere are the battle lines between public health authorities and Big Tobacco, Big Food and Big Soda sharper than in South Africa and on the African...

Mental health in Africa is ‘neglected and stigmatised’

Historically, mental health has been neglected on Africa’s health and development policy agenda, writes Professor Crick Lund, professor and...

Abolishing medical tax credit ‘problematic’ and could face court challenge

As the SA government mulls its options to reduce expenditure while funding priority programmes, experts have warned that the abolishment of the...

Doctors in India protest over decision to ‘sanction quackery’

Doctors in India have accused the government of seeking to “sanction quackery” by proposing to allow homeopaths and others trained in alternative...

SA’s thorny health issues carried over into 2018

As the year begins, it’s common for individuals, companies and government departments to have a few things on their list of things to do. City...

Sleepless nights over inequitable funding for Gauteng — Health MEC

Gauteng Health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa assumed office in February, and she is quoted in a News24 report as saying that she believes the department’s...

Inquiry blames SA private hospitals for driving up costs

The SA Health Market Inquiry has blamed private hospitals for much of the above-inflation increases in expenditure reported by medical schemes,...

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