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Japanese Health Ministry approves new flu killing drug
Japan's Health Ministry has approved a new drug that reportedly can kill influenza types A and B in as little as 1 day among...
PrEP Summit: It's time to stop accepting the status quo
The biggest barrier to HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) becoming more available and more widely used is not cost so much as widespread acceptance of...
430 EC school children to hospital after food poisoning
A food poisoning outbreak at an Eastern Cape school has seen 430 pupils rushed to hospital. The Times reports that last week, an additional...
Authorities scramble to contain West African Lassa fever outbreak
The World Health Organisation (WHO) reports it is teaming up with national and international health agencies to tackle what appears to be the largest...
Rural communities left by the wayside in community service allocations
Discrimination towards rural communities in health service delivery persists. This is one of the key findings from the Annual CSO Allocation Update ‘ACUTE’, a...
SAMA reacts to alleged rape at Dr Yusuf Dadoo Hospital
The South African Medical Association (SAMA) has expressed shock at the alleged rape of a patient by a doctor at the Dr Yusuf Dadoo...
EC hospital clerk arrested for allegedly stealing ARVs
An Eastern Cape hospital clerk has been arrested after being found in possession of stolen antiretrovirals (ARVs), reports News24 report. Eastern Cape Health Department...
Final countdown to 'pharmaceutical industry's Y2K'
The private healthcare industry is gearing up for a coding structure change that is to come into effect from 1 March 2018, whereby the...
Latest accreditations from Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa
The healthcare facilities listed in the table below have been awarded accreditation by The Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa (COHSASA), a...
Budget 2018: Med scheme tax credits capped for NHI
Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba has trimmed the tax credits taxpayers receive for their medical scheme contributions to raise an extra R4.2bn for National Health...