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Competition Commission targets private healthcare monopoly
The Competition Commission has recommended stronger regulation to overturn the monopoly of a few players in the private healthcare sector and reduce the financial...
Attacker of University of Free State female doctor committed
A 30-year-old man who lost a piece of his tongue – allegedly when attacking a young female University of Free State medical intern at...
Deaths halved among infarct patients attending ‘Heart School’
Patients who attend “Heart School”, as almost every patient in Sweden is invited to do after a first heart attack, live markedly longer than...
SSA 'test and treat' programmes stumble
Programmes to scale-up HIV testing and treatment in countries in sub-Saharan Africa may have had less impact on new HIV infections than hoped, partly...
Corruption and organised crime worsen Africa's looming drugs crisis
A looming drugs crisis in Africa is being made worse by ineffective drug policy, fuelled by corruption and organised crime, says the ENACT transnational...
Controversial review finds that cutting back on red and processed meat has little health...
A major international set of systematic reviews has concluded that cutting back on red and processed meat has little impact on health, contrary...
Lessons from Africa on how trust can repair a broken health care system
Agnes Binagwaho, vice chancellor, University of Global Health Equity and Miriam Frisch, research associate to the vice chancellor, University of Global Health Equity write...
Nurse's 'misconduct' written warning following baby's death
A nurse involved in what Limpopo Health described as the 'truly unacceptable' death of a baby, who fell on his head while the mother...
Ramaphosa's presidential health compact now electronically available
A presidential health compact signed in July by government and its social partners but only recently made electronically available is expected to go some...
African American children respond differently to asthma medications
African Americans suffer asthma more often and more severely than Caucasian patients. However, clinical trials that have shaped treatment guidelines have included few African...