November 7th, 2018The US Food and Drug Administration's Tainted Products Marketed as Dietary Supplements database lists hundreds of products with hidden active ingredients that are unsafe...
While staff at the Health Department’s Civitas Building in Pretoria are protesting the “unsafe” condition of the building, a health practitioner’s dream of...South Africa
Medical practitioners in private practice using locums when they are not available to practice are urged to ensure that the contracted locum are registered with the...
May 30th, 2018Within a week, the 'revolutionary' HIV drug dolutegravir has gone from being highly regarded to being the subject of international warnings. Health-e News reports...
May 23rd, 2018The funding that has been allocated in the past to TB is ‘pitiful in comparison to HIV’, says Dr Helen Cox, an epidemiologist at the University of Cape Town's...
Recent statements by the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA), the successor to the Medicines Control Council, that it intends to levy a so-called...
April 18th, 2018The Biovac Institute (Biovac) has been awarded a manufacturing licence by a South African regulator, taking it one step closer to realising the government’s ambition...
It is marketed as an all-natural‚ 100% organic‚ certified non-toxic product which results in weight loss‚ detoxifies and lowers cholesterol. But, says a report in...South Africa
South African drug makers may be asked to pay a "backlog fee" to help clear a pipeline of medicines waiting years for approval. Business Day reports that this is...South Africa
Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, Minister of Health, says a landmark pricing deal announced by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), will accelerate the...
