June 16th, 2021With a key hospital shuttered and others crippled by recurrent water shortages, Gauteng is struggling to handle its largest wave of COVID-19 yet, reports MedicalBrief....
July 8th, 2020A large, 24-nation cohort study reporting post-operative outcomes in COVID-19 of post elective and emergency surgical patients found poor outcomes exceeding those seen...
Fear of contracting COVID-19 has led to a decrease in new cancer patients referred to Groote Schuur Hospital in the last two months and a decrease in those going for...Pharmaceutical
A deadly national cancer drug shortage in SA is approaching its third month and patients may have to go without until October – if they can make it – reports...International
Despite losing a recent $70m lawsuit in the US courts, health care giant Johnson and Johnson (J&J) appears to have no plans to remove talcum powder products from...Weekly Roundup
The childhood cancer survival rate has risen from 0% in 1950 to almost 80% today, but in developing countries the statistics are reversed, with almost 80% of children...
