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OECD warns superbug infections will kill 2.4m by 2050
More than 90,000 people in Britain will die over the next three decades unless action is taken to halt the rise in antibiotic-resistant superbug...
BugWise app to keep antibiotic resistance in check in SA
BugWise, a free South African app aimed at keeping antibiotic resistance (ABR) in check, has been released.
A local health expert said that with the...
Fiscal crunch means NHI projects on back-burner — Motsoaledi
National Health Insurance (NHI) projects will be put on the back-burner as the Health Department has to reprioritise its budget, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi...
MPs want patent laws changed to address antimicrobial resistance
The UK government should consider changing patent law to incentivise major pharmaceutical companies to develop new antibiotics to address the "grave threat to health"...
CMS ban on low-cost med schemes faces legal challenge
Discovery Health may turn to litigation after the Final Board of Appeals of the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) banned two of its primary...
High Court sets aside contentious KZN Health tender
A failed R2.5bn tender awarded to a finance company – which has caused a chronic shortage of essential medical equipment, including oncology machines, at...
GEMS opposition to merging with other schemes
The principal officer of the Government Employees Medical Scheme (GEMS) has warned against the state’s plans to merge it with other schemes for public...
Motsoaledi 'heartbroken' over hospital linen profiteering
National Health Department officials have found that aside from the Western Cape, provincial hospital suppliers had been marking up by as much as 48%...
NC Health in financial trouble, whistleblowers claim
Whistleblowers claim Northern Cape Health is in financial trouble, on the brink of more lawsuits and its service providers have downed tools in key...
Children have 2.5 years to establish healthy gut bacteria
A child has until the age of two-and-a-half to establish healthy gut bacteria – with little change after this point, research has revealed. The...