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Viruses, vaccines and superbugs: The biggest stories of 2016
[LAURA LOPEZ GONZALEZ] We say goodbye to 2016 by looking back at the healthcare stories that made headlines... read
Two-year transition period fo phase out primary healthcare policies
Two-year transition period fo phase out primary healthcare policies
[Linda Ensor] Insurance companies will get a two-year transition period to phase out existing primary healthcare policies... read
Source: Mediclinic Southern Africa
SA's first paediatric mucoepimoid tumour removal
In a first for South Africa, a mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the parotid was successfully removed from a three-year-old boy... read
Healthcare
Source: Public Health Association of South Africa
Medics have a bigger social responsibility than healing
New doctors have a much bigger role to play than keeping their patients healthy, Professor William Pick tells graduates... read
Cardiology
Pacemaker rip-offs cost insurance firms millions
Pacemaker rip-offs cost insurance firms millions

Uthentira Govender and Matthew Savides

The pacemaker implanted into a healthy Durban man might not have been for the patient's wellbeing, but part of a plot to swindle insurance companies... read
Malaria
African malaria elimination improving, but still short of targets
African malaria elimination improving, but still short of targets
Access to core malaria-fighting tools has expanded rapidly for the world's most vulnerable populations... read
Medical Aid
Members must hold their medical scheme to account on costs
Members must hold their medical scheme to account on costs
Many consumers are bewildered by the escalating costs of medical care, and feel powerless in the face of double-digit increases from the country's largest medical schemes... read
GEMS busts open major claims fraud
GEMS busts open major claims fraud
GEMS has uncovered suspected fraud, waste and abuse practices amounting to several millions on the part of a number of healthcare service providers and members... read
Medical Research
Ebola vaccine shows results in trial
Ebola vaccine shows results in trial
A prototype vaccine for Ebola has proven effective in Guinea, according to the WHO. It hopes fast-track approval will emerge by 2018... read
Novartis mentorship programme is helping to reimagine medicine
Novartis mentorship programme is helping to reimagine medicine
The Novartis Next Generation Scientist (NGS) programme is a mentorship programme run in collaboration with various South African universities and the University of Basel, Switzerland.. read
Patients of female doctors show better survival: study
Patients of female doctors show better survival: study
Elderly people treated by female doctors while in the hospital had significantly better survival rates and fewer readmissions than those treated by their male counterparts... read
Medical Technology
New equipment enhances minimally invasive cardiac procedures at Netcare Union Hospital
New equipment enhances minimally invasive cardiac procedures at Netcare Union Hospital
Advanced imaging technology is part of the upgrade to the cardiac catheterisation laboratory at a hospital in Johannesburg... read
3D printing gives young Meagan a helping hand
3D printing gives young Meagan a helping hand
The potential of 3D printing technology to benefit people with disabilities is particularly relevant across Africa because of the low costs and short turnaround time... read
Nutrition
Sugar wars continued: BevSA responds to Dr Sundeep Ruder
Sugar wars continued: BevSA responds to Dr Sundeep Ruder
BevSA says sugar intake is best controlled by education and product reformulation... read
Oncology
Promising cancer immunotherapy target also supports new blood vessel formation
Promising cancer immunotherapy target also supports new blood vessel formation
Apart from cancer, new findings suggest that treating other diseases involving abnormal blood vessel formation might also benefit from the use of IDO1 inhibitors... read
UNESCO-MARS 2016 Award winners: (L-R) front row- 'Best African Woman Researchers Award' 4th place winner Maria Nabaggala, from Infectious Diseases Institute, Uganda; 5th place winner, Martha Zewdie, from Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Ethiopia; 2nd place Best Young African Researchers winner, Constantine Asahngwa, Cameroon Centre for Evidence Based Health Care; Best Young African Researchers 1st place winner Patricia Rantshabeng from University of Botswana; Best African Women Researchers 2nd place winner, Rogomenoma Ouedraogo, Laboratory of Biology and Molecular Genetics University, Burkina Faso; 'Best Young Researcher Award' 3rd place winner, Lamin Cham from National Aids Control Program, Gambia; 2nd row: 2nd place Best Young Researchers Award winner, Tinashe Nyazika, University of Zimbabwe; Best African Woman Researchers Award' 1st place winner, Beatrice Nyagol from Kenya Medical Research Institute, together with Prof. Yifru Berhane, Minister of Health, Ethiopia; Prof. Dr Frank Stangenberg-Haverkamp, Chairman, Executive Board and Family Board of E.Merck KG; Prof. Afework Kassu Gizaw, Minister of Science and Technology, Ethiopia; Ahmed Fahmi, Program Director, UNESCO and Rasha Kelej, Chief Social Officer, Merck Healthcare.
'Best African Women Researchers' announced
Merck has followed up the success of its Cancer Access Program, which empowers women in the field of oncology, where they were underrepresented, with another initiative that empowers African women - this time in the field of research, to offer better health care to women... read
Integrative approach to cancer care
Integrative approach to cancer care
A new integrative cancer centre, Hummingbird, offers a fully integrated holistic way of tackling cancer based upon global research. read
Public Health
Kenyan government challenged to pay striking doctors' salaries
Kenyan government challenged to pay striking doctors' salaries

Galgalo Bocha and Alex Njeru

The Kenyan government has been challenged to take over the responsibility of paying salaries of the striking doctors from the counties... read
Source: Herald
Paeds heart doctor takes helm at NMMU health faculty
Dr Lungile Pepeta has left the public sector to become dean of health sciences at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University... read
Call for probe into municipal health services GM appointment
Call for probe into municipal health services GM appointment
A senior Buffalo City Municipality (BCM) manager was hired for a R1-million-a-year job despite allegedly not meeting all the requirements for the top position... read
Grey Health Group, Havas Health to sponsor the Young Globals
Grey Health Group, Havas Health to sponsor the Young Globals
Both Grey Health Group and Havas Health will support the Young Globals student competition & internship programme as official corporate sponsors and mentor emerging young creatives by providing internship opportunities to this year's winning teams... read
Are primary clinics better than nothing to prevent mother and infant mortality?
Are primary clinics better than nothing to prevent mother and infant mortality?
A new study questions whether the premise that delivering babies at local primary care facilities will reduce maternal and infant deaths is, in fact, correct... read
Sports Science
Nesland volunteering at Just Footprints FoundationĀ“s camp for kids with cancer in Pretoria.
#BehindtheSelfie with... Gjermund Nesland

Leigh Andrews

This week, we find out what's really going on behind the selfie with Gjermund Nesland, national team manager of the Norwegian Kickboxing Federation as well as entrepreneur... read
South African gets top medical job at upcoming Fifa World Cup events
South African gets top medical job at upcoming Fifa World Cup events
For first time in over 20 years, someone new will be in charge of the medical operations at Fifa tournaments, and he's South African to boot... read
Business
Deep analytics bump up sales and marketing for banks
Deep analytics bump up sales and marketing for banks
The new hype is the ability to analyse various types of information that are not based at the same location - termed deep analytics... read
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Not all mice are equal, even if their genomes are. Can gene-editing usher in a new era of truly designer lab mice? https://t.co/S88WNJWgEg
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