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Former EC Health MEC accused of clinic 'takeover'
A former ANC MP and Eastern Cape Health MEC has been accused of locking nurses and patients out of a kidney clinic that he...
SA's private hospitals ranked by patients
South Africa’s top 20 private hospitals, ranked by Discovery Health patients based on their experiences, have been announced, reports The Times. The hospitals rated...
SA minority are 'fighting tooth and nail against the NHI revolution'
Apartheid built healthcare inequalities. It is up to the National Health Insurance (NHI) to dismantle them, writes South Africa’s Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi in...
60% of foreign-trained doctors fail Nigerian practice exams
More than half of the foreign-trained doctors and dentists failed examinations to secure practice licence of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN),...
SA's state laboratory services face a looming strike
A deadlock between laboratory workers and the National Health Laboratory Service has raised the prospects of a nationwide strike.
The country's health services could be facing...
UK doctors call for inquiry into use of vaginal mesh surgery
Senior doctors in the UK have called for a public inquiry into the use of vaginal mesh surgery amid mounting concerns that a significant...
Mental health discrimination and prejudice from medical schemes – Pharma Dynamics exec
Mental healthcare in South Africa is in a sickly state with medical aid members continuing to face prejudice and discrimination by schemes, according to...
Court orders North West's health workers back to work
North West’s health services are set to return to normal this week after public health workers fighting against ambulance privatisation were ordered to return...
Therapeutic donor microbes remain long after faecal microbiota transplantation
Researchers say a small study offers the first proof that therapeutic donor microbes remain for months or years in patients who've undergone faecal microbiota...
Infection spreads despite practising perfect hand hygiene
Even if hospital workers practise theoretically perfect hand hygiene, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) can still spread among babies in a neonatal intensive care unit...