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#BestofBiz 2016: Healthcare
#BestofBiz 2016: Healthcare
We've compiled our annual #BestofBiz 2016 featuring our most popular articles, most-read contributors and brand press offices with the most views on our Healthcare portal... read
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Drinks makers release study to challenge planned sugar tax
[Tamar Kahn] Econex says demand sugar-sweetened beverage consumption will not fall as sharply as the policy paper predicts.. read
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UN castigates DoH for Esidimeni deaths
The UN said the deaths of psychiatric patients is a human rights violation resulting from poor planning... read
Healthcare
E-cigarettes a "major public health concern": US surgeon general
E-cigarettes a "major public health concern": US surgeon general
E-cigarette use is exploding among young people and is now "a major public health concern," the US surgeon general warned... read
Kenya needs to combat NCDs through public private partnerships
Kenya needs to combat NCDs through public private partnerships
All stakeholders in Kenyan healthcare must step up efforts and work together in ensuring people living with NCDs have access to treatment... read
Aesthetic Medicine
De Barros: Weekday marketer, weekend sun worshipper.
#BehindtheSelfie with... Tony de Barros

Leigh Andrews

This week, we find out what's really going on behind the selfie with Tony de Barros, sales and marketing director for Lamelle Research Laboratories, which started in his garage and is now one of the leading skincare companies in SA... read
Medical Aid
Africans are living longer
Africans are living longer
Sub-Saharan countries have collectively increased the region's overall life expectancy by 16,5% over the past decade and a half... read
Medscheme and Samwumed extend managed care partnership
Medscheme and Samwumed extend managed care partnership
Samwumed has announced that it will be extending its partnership with Medscheme to include its medicine management and HIV/Aids disease management programmes... read
Nutrition
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Potential health benefit of taxing sugared drinks is overstated, economist says

Tamar Kahn

Reducing the energy content of sugar-sweetened drinks would be a more effective way to combat obesity than implementing a sugar tax, according to research commissioned by beverage industry association BevSA... read
Pharmaceuticals
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Adcock acquires Pharma-Q rights

Michelle Gumede

Adcock Ingram Critical Care (AICC) gained commercial rights to the Pharma-Q range of products in SA last Friday... read
Public Health
SMS for Life 2.0 launched to monitor medicine levels in Nigeria
SMS for Life 2.0 launched to monitor medicine levels in Nigeria
A programme aimed at increasing the availability of essential medicines by using simple, available, and affordable technology has been launched in Kaduna, Nigeria... read
Tech could be the answer to levelling the access-to-healthcare playing field
Tech could be the answer to levelling the access-to-healthcare playing field

Cathy Smith

We so often hear stories of the hardships associated with accessibility to high quality healthcare, but the IoT could fix all that... . read
Business
Three challenges of expanding your business in Africa
Three challenges of expanding your business in Africa

Bruce van Wyk

Africa is rising. According to the latest figures in the 2016 African Economic Outlook report, annual GDP growth rose to above 5% between 2001 and 2014... read
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Empathy as a starting point to innovation

Amandine Robin

Often, the orientations to innovation are determined by the skills existing in a factory at a given time. Typically, the company owns a technical know-how and uses it to improve or transform its products... read
Jobs offered
Clinical Nurse Practitioner - Cape Town
Stellenbosch University currently seeks to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced clinical nurse practitioner (Ref. KGD/463/1116). Applications close 15 December 2016. Read more >>

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