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UK surgery guidelines slated
Writing in The Independent, Zoë Harcombe, author of The Obesity Epidemic, is scathing of new UK government guidelines that recommend massively expanding bariatric surgery,...
‘Misguided’ war
Would the real purpose of the SA Competition Commission’s inquiry into private healthcare be to divert attention from government failure and legitimise punitive controls...
Therapists’ notes shared
Mental health patients do not have the ready access to office visit notes that, increasingly, other patients enjoy. But reports The New York Times,...
Med aid ‘death spiral’
The SA Treasury’s latest proposals for regulating health insurance are poorly drafted and threaten to send the medical schemes industry into a ‘death spiral’,...
Competition inquiry warning
The panel leading the inquiry into private health care in SA should not rely too heavily on profitability analyses, according to research firm Econex....
New US pharma trend – ‘inversion’
By buying a smaller overseas competitor and reincorporating abroad — a manoeuvre called inversion — health care companies are extricating themselves from the American...
New blood clot technology
Experts at the UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Centre (SCVC) are now able to save patients from potentially fatal outcomes by using a new...
Donor life expectancy
In the first study to look closely at this issue, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report that...
Eye tests for Alzheimer’s
Simple regular eye tests could be used to identify Alzheimer's disease at a very early stage. Early trials of two different techniques show that...
Indian admissions disarray
Moves by the regulatory body the Medical Council of India (MCI) to scrap almost a third of medical degree places across the country in...