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Medical scheme fraud
Discovery Health has sounded the alarm about fraud in the medical schemes industry, which it estimates to cost SA between R8.22bn and R43.2bn, based...
Measles at no-vax high
Measles cases have hit a 20-year high in the US, a troubling increase fuelled by international travel by people who have not been vaccinated...
Alternative medicines battle
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi and the Medicines Control Council have been served papers challenging the validity of regulations seeking proof that alternative medicines are...
Tanning bed regulation
The US Food and Drug Administration is strengthening its regulation of tanning beds, which have been shown to increase the risk of skin cancer....
Laser light for stem cells
Scientists have come up with a bright idea of using laser light to entice the body’s own stem cells into action – a discovery...
Plastic surgeons can claim
Plastic surgeons who have removed Poly Implant Prosthesis (PIP) breast implants from women because of their high rupture rate, may institute their own claims...
Health and fitness wristband
Samsung Electronics has moved deeper into the wearable technology market, unveiling a wristband that it claims can give a range of real-time health and...
Global obesity rates will ‘crush public health systems’
The number of people in the world who are obese or overweight has topped 2.1bn, up from 875m in 1980. And, BBC News reports,...
‘Alarming’ shortages at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital – Health MEC
Gauteng Health MEC Qedani Mahlangu has admitted the biggest hospital in the southern Hemisphere, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in Soweto, Johannesburg, is short...
No quota system at new SA private medical university
KwaZulu-Natal is poised to get SA’s first private medical university and newly elected premier Senzo Mchunu is quoted in the Sunday Tribune as saying,...