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UCT's H3D a key partner to support drug discovery projects in Africa
The University of Cape Town’s Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3D), the African Academy of Sciences (AAS), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Medicines...
UK's NHS now planning for 'Brexit no-deal' scenario
Officials in the UK’s National Health Service are now planning explicitly for protecting public health in the event of a Brexit no-deal scenario, less...
AU campaign launched to end malaria
Monday, 2 July 2018 marked the launch of Zero Malaria Starts with Me, a continent-wide campaign co-led by the AU Commission and the RBM...
Health market inquiry report to be released this week
The Competition Commission’s health market inquiry’s provisional report is to be released on Thursday of this week. The commission said that details on the...
Four confirmed Free State cases of Rift Valley Fever
A fever-causing virus transmitted by mosquitoes‚ especially in wet seasons‚ has been confirmed in four people following an isolated outbreak in sheep on a...
GSK and Gilead go head-to-head over new HIV treatments
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is taking its fight with Gilead Sciences for dominance of the HIV market to the world’s leading Aids conference in July by...
SA Health delays roll-out of HIV drug over safety fears
Safety concerns have forced the Department of Health to delay its plans to provide HIV patients with dolutegravir, a cheaper and more tolerable alternative...
DA tracks ANC's moves over former Gauteng Health MEC
The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Gauteng has launched a “Hlongwa monitor” to track how long it takes before Gauteng premier David Makhura fires ANC...
Suspension of NW Health head extended
The North West Health Department has extended the suspension of its head of department Dr Andrew Thabo Lekalakala. News24 reports that provincial health spokesperson...
ART rollout in SA 'could be largest chronic care programme in the world'
There are over 4m people with HIV on antiretroviral treatment (ART) in South Africa. Over 90% are being treated in the government hospitals and...
Researchers look for links between prescription drugs and depression
Could your medications be making you depressed asks a US study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Pharmacy, University...
FDA approves implantable Eversense diabetes monitoring system
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the Eversense Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) system for use in people 18 years of age and...
FDA expands approval of MiniMed diabetes management device
The US Food and Drug Administration has expanded the approval of the MiniMed 670G hybrid closed looped system, a diabetes management device that is...
Cold and flu season hits SA early but strain not as severe
The cold and flu season might have hit South Africa sooner than expected this year, but the strain affecting local patients is not as...
PSC report on KZN Health warns on staff attitudes
Staff attitudes at KwaZulu-Natal Health facilities and inadequate care of patients including failure to guarantee confidentiality, especially to HIV positive patients may lead to...
Nehawu mobilising over Limpopo's failure to pay bonuses
The National Education Health and Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) says it is mobilising for mass action in Limpopo because the provincial Health Department has...
Esidimeni claimants receiving their money
Section27 says not all the claimants of the Life Esidimeni arbitration have received their money, but it has no reason to be apprehensive that...
SA’s first healthcare-focused property company launched
Growthpoint Properties has launched the country’s first healthcare-focused property company as it looks to expand into a specialised real estate sector that offers significant...
HPV vaccine programme in UK significantly reduces infection risk
A new study in the UK has shown the success of the Human Papilloma Virus(HPV) vaccine programme in significantly reducing the number of young...
WHO cautious about declaring victory in DRC Ebola epidemic
The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has cautioned against declaring victory too early in Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola epidemic, despite encouraging...
Ramaphosa urged to attend UN meeting on TB
Civil society groups are calling on President Cyril Ramaphosa to attend a historic global tuberculosis (TB) meeting in September, as a show of political...
Motsoaledi and Dhlomo tour new KZN condom factory
Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi and KZN Health MEC Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo have expressed their satisfaction with operations at a condom factory situated at...
Forum to tackle fraud and corruption in SA healthcare
Fraud‚ waste and abuse were just three types of corruption that occurred in the public and private healthcare sectors – and fraud in the...
UK authorities deny chemotherapy to asylum seeker
A 38-year-old woman with advanced breast cancer was denied potentially life-saving chemotherapy for nearly six weeks after the UK’s Home Office deemed her ineligible....
Africa CDC reports on response to DRC's Ebola epidemic
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) deployed epidemiologists, laboratorians and various other health experts to support the government of the...
WHO report on NCDs fails to recommend sugar tax
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Independent High-Level Commission on NCDs’ report, Time to Deliver, called for urgent action against chronic diseases and mental disorders,...
Community medics attacked in Cape Town
Two Community Medics crews were attacked and robbed at gun and knife point in the early hours of Saturday while treating patients in Du...
New leadership at Generics and Biosimilar Medicines Association
Generic and Biosimilar Medicines of Southern Africa (GBMSA), formerly known as the National Association of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers (NAPM), has appointed Erik Roos, CEO of...
Dietitians' role in the prevention of disease
Across the world, health and social care services are under stress; and in South Africa, the inaccessibility of quality health care for many people...
ART adherence clubs to help SA eradicate HIV/Aids
Just being an active member of a club can save a life and make a significant impact on South Africa’s effort to meet the...
Youth must be the ambassadors in the fight against TB
Deputy President David Mabuza on Tuesday said that advancing awareness about preventing the spread of tuberculosis (TB) and Aids-related deaths will involve youths becoming...
Armed guards to protect Mpumalanga health workers
Mpumalanga provincial hospitals and clinics will be protected by armed guards after a spate of robberies at health facilities in the province. The Times...
All Gauteng departments to help pay for Esidimeni arbitration
The funds to pay the R160.64m arbitration award to 135 families of victims of the Life Esidimeni tragedy will come proportionately from all provincial...
Khayelitsha the latest site in MSF DR-TB treatment trial
The informal settlement of Khayelitsha in Cape Town is the latest site of a multi-country trial that aims to transform the treatment for drug-resistant...
eThekwini cuts used-drug needle programme
Hundreds of people in the City of eThekwini could be at risk of contracting HIV and hepatitis as the metro cuts the only prevention...
Durban hospital first to offer laser procedure for enlarged prostate
A laser procedure to treat enlarged prostate, the most common non-cancerous prostate medical condition to develop in men by the time they reach their...
Facility for people with HLH opened at Bara
Hundreds gathered at Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Soweto last week to launch a multimillion-rand facility project to aid people suffering from haemophagocytic...
Major E. coli outbreak in US claims 5 lives
Five people have now died in a major E. coli outbreak in the US involving romaine lettuce, with 197 cases reported across 35 states....
28 Life Esidimeni patients still missing — police
More than 20 Life Esidimeni patients are still unaccounted for. News24 reports that this is according to Democratic Alliance (DA) MP Jack Bloom who...
Stellenbosch residence named after the late Nkosi Johnson
The “greenest residence in Africa” has been named after the late Nkosi Johnson‚ once the world’s longest-surviving child born with HIV/Aids, reports The Times....