February 13th, 2019
Dr Jurgen Odendaal, a Pretoria East general practitioner, whose SMS messages to a patient warning of a cerebral malaria diagnosis were sent to a no-longer operable...
The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) says that employees and unions have been consulted about the restructuring and they were assured the changes would...South Africa
Half of the doctors and nurses responsible for the Life Esidimeni tragedy still have not been reported to their professional associations, Bhekisisa reports.
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Countering a wide range of allegations of corruption levelled at it by a whistle-blower, the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) said action was being...
August 1st, 2018'I have never advised patients to consider delaying chemo or radiation in favour of a ketogenic diet', writes Marika Sboros, responding to Alastair McAlpine's Digital...
Bela Bela Hospital management said it would reflect on allegedly racist comments made by a doctor to Democratic Alliance (DA) MP and spokesperson for health in Limpopo...
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...
Six people have been arrested in theWestern Cape for allegedly practising without valid licences, the Hawks said in an IOL report. Hawks spokesperson Brigadier Hangwani...
May 23rd, 2018“When you ask most people to name some examples of pseudoscience or quackery, they’ll usually mention homeopathy, or reiki, or herbology,” writes MedicalBrief...
May 23rd, 2018 SA has just 38 state-employed radiation oncologists, of which 16 are in the Western Cape, according to the annual survey conducted by the SA Society of Clinical and...
