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Fraud and corruption crippling Malawi's public health system
Millions of rand seeped out of Malawi’s public health system last year through fraud, payroll manipulation and unauthorised payments, a leaked report from the...
Frustrated by delays, UK patients pay for private treatment
Growing numbers of patients in the UK are paying for private treatment to beat rationing and delays for treatment imposed by the cash-strapped National...
Row over Oxford TB vaccine trial on SA babies
Oxford University is embroiled in an ethics row after scientists were accused of questionable conduct over a controversial trial of a new vaccine on...
Cosatu opposition to private healthcare 'will scupper NHI'
Cosatu’s opposition to the private sector having a role in the implementation of National Health Insurance (NHI) could fundamentally scupper the achievement of universal...
FDA again clears Pfizer cancer drug pulled from market in 2010
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Pfizer Inc’s drug, Mylotarg, for certain patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), re-clearing a drug...
Gauteng psychiatric care in a dire state
Gauteng is short of about 2,700 psychiatric beds which means that psychiatric patients have to be admitted to general wards, thus posing a threat...
Gauteng Health negligence crisis because of 'management problems'
The Gauteng Health Department is facing medical negligence claims worth over R2bn. JacarandaFM reports that this was revealed in the department's 2016/17 Annual Report...
Support for sugar tax grows, as govt delays to 2018
Three out of four South African adults are supportive of government’s efforts to enforce policies that will discourage people from consuming sugary drinks and...
10% of UK men have a heart age of 10 years older
One in 10 of British 50-year-olds has the heart of a 60-year-old man, suggesting they could die a decade earlier than they should, warns...
Morning drug-taking helps to reduce insomnia
Italian doctors say that sleeplessness after taking the integrase inhibitor dolutegravir occurred much less often when their patients took their dose of the drug...