The Genesis Medical Scheme has agreed to authorise and pay the rehabilitation costs of burn survivor Kelvin van Baalen pending the outcome of a complaint that these...
October 9th, 2019
A new rapid blood culture test system for sepsis can reduce identification to 12 hours, from the two-to-three days of standard-of- care culture and antibiotic...
October 9th, 2019
South African director/producer Odette Schwegler has produced a film which documents stories of people living with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), one the...
A Turkish food safety engineer has been jailed after releasing to a newspaper details of a study that he had done for the health ministry, which linked toxic pollution...Respiratory
A third of patients with severe asthma are taking harmful doses of oral steroids, according to a study of several thousand people in The Netherlands, presented at the...
October 9th, 2019
Epileptic seizures can probably not be predicted by changes in brain wave patterns that were previously assumed to be characteristic precursors. This is the conclusion...
US drug firm Johnson & Johnson has been told to pay $8bn in punitive damages to a man over claims he was not warned that an antipsychotic drug could lead to breast...Weekly Roundup
The government’s proposed deadline for establishing the National Health Insurance (NHI) fund is too short, the Finance and Fiscal Commission (FCC) has warned...
October 9th, 2019
Eight innovators from seven African countries have been announced as the inaugural awardees of the Grand Challenges (GC) Africa drug discovery scheme, each receiving up...
October 9th, 2019
The Wits Transplant Unit substantially increased organ donor numbers after revising the way they communicate with families and medical staff after a potential donor...
