The Special Investigating Unit will probe allegations of maladministration at the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA), Fin24 reports President...Weekly Roundup
Despite the fact that cryptococcal meningitis is the second leading killer of people living with HIV, it mostly flies under the radar. According to the World Health...South Africa
The Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) says it has had more 300 complaints so far this year regarding bogus doctors and is doing all it can to stop unregistered...
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...
