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Professor Glenda Gray appointed new GARDP board chair
The Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP) has announced the appointment of distinguished scientist and leader in the medical research community, Professor Glenda...
iTOO enters new partnership with indemnity specialist EthiQal
iTOO Special Risks, a speciality risk underwriter, and EthiQal, a medical professional indemnity provider for specialist doctors, have announced an exciting strategic partnership.
This collaboration,...
Plant-based diets may benefit type 2 diabetes
In 2021, it was estimated that more than 4m South African adults had diabetes. In lifestyle diseases, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is arguably...
Safeguarding members’ interests in the RAF stand-off
The escalating incidence of road accidents and their considerable costs are a source of concern for our country, with an estimated 25 annual deaths...
Menopause group flags unregulated ‘bioidentical’ hormone therapy
Marking World Menopause Day on 19 October, the South African Menopause Society (SAMS) has raised concerns about the use of compounded bioidentical hormone therapy...
SAMRC calls for proposals for AI innovations to tackle global health issues
The South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Grand Challenges (GC) partners that include...
Chronic inducible urticaria trial looking for participants
A new drug trial under way in South Africa is exploring a promising investigational treatment for chronic urticaria – a debilitating skin condition characterised...
First African hospital to join global alliance against heart, kidney, metabolic diseases
Kenya’s MP Shah Hospital has become the first hospital on the continent to join the CaReMe Global Alliance in a landmark collaboration to improve...
Ten years of recognising research excellence with SAMRC awards
Nominations for the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) 2023 Scientific Merit Awards are now open. Celebrating a 10-year anniversary, these awards are aimed...
UFS staff to serve in WHO initiatives
Professor Champion Nyoni, senior researcher in the School of Nursing at the University of the Free State (UFS), has been appointed to the World Health...
COHSASA awards: resilience in the face of a pandemic
The Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa NPC (COHSASA) has published the names of the latest health facilities to have been accredited....
Africa’s first endoscopic lung volume reduction
In a continent first, Africa’s first endoscopic lung volume reduction (ELVR) procedures using endobronchial valves were recently performed at Netcare Kuils River Hospital in...
Dr Muhammad Ali Pate to become next CEO of vaccine vlliance
The Gavi board has approved the appointment of Dr Muhammad Ali Pate as the CEO of the vaccine alliance after an extensive recruitment process....
Billions in funding expands sleeping sickness eradication efforts
On World Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) Day earlier this week (30 January), more than US$7m in new funding was announced to expand efforts towards...
Mamello Clinical Solutions launches HERO21 sanitisation robot in SA
Patient and healthcare worker safety in South African hospitals will reach a new level of excellence with the launch of the revolutionary HERO21 robotic...
MSF's eSwatini ‘Pocket Clinic' simplifies HIV self-testing
eSwatini has one of the highest burdens of HIV in the world. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) teams introduced HIV self-testing in 2016, with the...
HIV Clinicians Society offers free membership
As we commemorate World Aids Day on 1 December, the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society (SAHCS) is not only reflecting on the tremendous progress...
MSF plea for HIV PrEP drug to be affordable
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) calls on pharmaceutical corporation ViiV to urgently dismantle the barriers hindering broad access to the most effective form of HIV...
UFS welcomes WHO's recognition of fungal infections threat
On 25 October 2022, the World Health Organisation (WHO) released the first ever fungal priority pathogens list to help guide research, development and public...
African Bank invests millions in pharmaceutical sector in southern, eastern Africa
The African Development Fund, the concessional lending arm of the African Development Bank Group, has approved a $6.63m grant to the Common Market for...
SA Diabetes Alliance calls for urgent education programme
Some 4.2m South Africans live with diabetes and 45.4% of them are undiagnosed, according to the latest figures from the International Diabetes Federation. In...
AstraZeneca and partners launch initiative for cancer patients across Africa
Announced on the margins of the UN Climate Change Conference 2022, COP27, under the patronage of the Egyptian Ministry of Health, the Accelerating Change...
Podcast tackles urgent need for understanding mental health issues
The Beyond Madness podcast releases the third season of 15 podcast episodes, which explore topics rarely spoken about in such detail in open forums....
UFS traditional medicine expert tests plant-based meds on TB-from-COVID cases
After putting together a multicentre-controlled clinical trial for a plant-based product to confirm it as a treatment for COVID-19 and to be registered as...
Medical schemes' financial soundness key to ensuring sustainable cover
Members of Health Squared Medical Scheme face an uncertain future after it came to light that their scheme’s reserve levels had dropped to just...
Medical aids, hospital administrators must help reduce patient malnutrition
Medical aids and hospital administrators must urgently adjust their approach to identifying and treating malnutrition in their hospitalised patients, to reduce the overall cost...
Ebola in Uganda: Four things you need to know
Since the declaration of the Ebola outbreak in Uganda on 20 September (and as of October), the Ugandan Ministry of Health has confirmed 43...
Academy of Science : Mbeki is ’abusing academic platforms’ with his ‘fringe theories’ on HIV/Aids
South Africa has endured a period of great illness, death and the loss of economic value over the past couple of years due to...
Gauteng Health: Water supply challenges at hospitals affecting care
The Gauteng Department of Health (GDoH) would like to inform the public and our clients at Helen Joseph Hospital and Rahima Moosa Mother and...
PP confirms substantial SANDF maladministration in Cuban medicines debacle
I have received the long-awaited Public Protector’s report on an investigation into allegations of maladministration and irregularities associated with the procurement of the unauthorised...
Colonialist mindsets must go for global public health to thrive
With globalisation, the world has become a massive, singular unit, and no restrictions can stop human interaction. It is inexcusable that after HIV/Aids, Ebola...
Safer treatments urgently needed for child cancer patients
A post on Facebook by the bereaved parent of a child who tragically died of cancer that reads: “I want my old life back,...
Lifesaving mechanical heart pump makes it a birthday to remember
A lifesaving procedure recently undertaken at Netcare Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital in Cape Town has given a fresh start to patient Sulizna van Reenen,...
Period poverty threatens the health of millions of girls
Period poverty is rife in South Africa. But before we can address the situation, we first need to understand what period poverty is.
What is...
Compounding and Dispensing Course for Allied Health Professionals 2022
The Department of Complementary Medicine at University of Johannesburg (UJ) is a registered provider of the South African Pharmacy Council (certificate registration number R10044)...
UFS Nuclear Medicine Department successfully treats advanced prostate cancer
The University of the Free State (UFS) Department of Nuclear Medicine is proud to announce the successful treatment outcome of a patient with metastatic...
Top Netcare award for world-renowned surgeon
Internationally acclaimed surgeon and senior clinical researcher in surgical gastroenterology at the University of Cape Town, Emeritus Professor Jake Krige, has been awarded the...
New hope for HIV+ children thanks to delicious new ARVs
New strawberry flavoured paediatric antiretrovirals (ARVs), due to arrive in South Africa shortly, will address a key barrier in the successful treatment of HIV...
Helen Suzman Foundation pays tribute to Babita Deokaran
Tuesday this week (23 August) marked a year since Babita Deokaran was murdered outside her home – made a target, it seems, for being...
Deafening silence on Tembisa Hospital payments scandal – Jack Bloom
The DA deplores the deafening silence of the Gauteng Health Department concerning the News24 investigation that has exposed how corruption whistle-blower Babita Deokaran tried...