22 Nov Contact Submit news Advertise List company Home
  My account

Healthcare South Africa

BizWeekly top stories
The battle for better mental health care
The battle for better mental health care
AU chair, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma urged the WHO to back the bid for the World Bank to switch from loans to grants to fund health projects... read
Multi-pronged approach in fighting AMR
Multi-pronged approach in fighting AMR
Hailed as the panacea for all ills, antibiotics have been overused to the point where that they are now becoming ineffective in fighting bacterial infections... read
Urgent need to restructure SA's organ transplant process
Urgent need to restructure SA's organ transplant process
[Danette Breitenbach] The drop in the number of organ transplants is indicative of a need to change the procurement process under the auspices of a new authority... read
Cardiology
KZN specialists benefit from advanced cardiac training
KZN specialists benefit from advanced cardiac training
Local cardiac specialists underwent training in advanced minimally invasive catheter-based percutaneous coronary interventional (PCI) procedures in Pietermaritzburg recently... read
Chronic Diseases
What your dietitian wants you to know about diabetes
What your dietitian wants you to know about diabetes

Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa

Considering the high incidence of diabetes it remains vitally important to continue educating South Africans and address the myths that are often associated with this lifestyle disease... read
Medical Aid
Guide to maximising your bang for your buck from your medical aid
Guide to maximising your bang for your buck from your medical aid

Issued by Bonitas

Most medical aids have launched their benefits and premium contributions for 2017 and, as in the past, the increases passed on to members are double figures, which outstrip inflation... read
Medical Technology
Preserving the vaccine cold chain is essential in saving lives
Preserving the vaccine cold chain is essential in saving lives
The challenge in developing countries is that they are often ill equipped to transport, store and distribute vaccines, which could save millions of lives... read
Oncology
I had to die first, to write this article
I had to die first, to write this article

Conn Bertish

And the very thing that brought me back to life - will do just the same for your brand during this difficult time. My name is Conn Bertish - I am a brain cancer survivor, creative strategist and founder of Cancer Dojo - the first project of my resilience-building content agency, HTK - (Harder To Kill)... read
Pharmaceuticals
#AMR: Antibiotic use needs to be monitored
#AMR: Antibiotic use needs to be monitored
Antibiotics have been prescribed for the prevention and treatment of bacterial infections since the 1940s, but through overuse,they need to be carefully monitored... read
Public Health
McCann Worldgroup SA entry wins at World's Best Healthcare & Wellness Advertising
McCann Worldgroup SA entry wins at World's Best Healthcare & Wellness Advertising
The Global Awards, now in its 22nd year of honouring the World's Best Healthcare & Wellness Advertising, announced the 2016 award winners late last week... read
Source: World Health Organisation
After Ebola: West African ministers discuss public health cooperation
Three years after the devastating Ebola epidemic, West African ministers have pledged to collaborate on responding to public health threats across the region. read
Surgical Procedures
#MovemberRSA: Prostate bot surgery minimises erectile dysfunction
#MovemberRSA: Prostate bot surgery minimises erectile dysfunction
One of the primary fears in men undergoing prostatectomies is loss of erectile function, but with robotic surgery, 78%of patients of all ages return to full potency in nine months... read
Business
Cape Town CBD Residential Survey reveals interesting early results
Cape Town CBD Residential Survey reveals interesting early results
Early results from the Central City Improvement District's fourth annual Cape Town CBD Residential Survey have already revealed some interesting outcomes... read
A circular fashion economy is about more than clothes
A circular fashion economy is about more than clothes

Lynn Oxborrow

When you shop for a new jumper, how much thought do you give to the fate of the one it will replace? Do you dump a jacket because it starts to look ragged, or falls out of fashion? More and more, the clothing industry is wrestling with the same questions... read
Jobs offered
Ad on Bizcommunity




Cartoon
[Bizcommunitoon] Fake news

More cartoons

Twitter bird white  Twitter
Reuters_Health
@Reuters_Health
FDA approves Novo Nordisk's diabetes drug https://t.co/xSsiy3Mp1b
NBCNewsHealth
@NBCNewsHealth
This 3-D scan lets parents, doctors really see babies in the womb https://t.co/WrcrReMvOM
medpagetoday
@medpagetoday
RT @ivanoransky: Nature Cell Biology retracts hotly debated cancer paper https://t.co/AxtE47mUeB
HarvardChanSPH
@HarvardChanSPH
Deepening our understanding of mosquitoes could lead to new solutions for disease control https://t.co/zEV0oeqC7x https://t.co/y8wHW2Yqqe
More tweetsFollow

Industries

Follow us
FacebookTwitterLinkedInYouTubeGoogle+InstagramDownload appRSS

Follow us
FacebookTwitterLinkedInYouTubeGoogle+InstagramDownload appRSS


Press releases: Distribute your news professionally to over 170 000 subscribers across various industries. Read more about our press offices.

Editorial: We welcome your news, views and comments! Email press releases, invitations, interview requests, and proposals to healthcarenews@bizcommunity.com and exclusive opinion pieces to contributors-healthcare@bizcommunity.com.

Advertising: We welcome your sales enquiries! Email sales@bizcommunity.com and read more about our advertising rates.

Cape Town, 1st Floor, 4 Treaty Rd, Woodstock, Cape Town, 7925, South Africa. Tel +27 (0)21 404 1460
© 2016 Bizcommunity.com. All rights reserved.
Unsubscribe, Newsletter subscription. Subscribe. Change email address. Change frequency to DAILY.