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New guidelines set benchmark for chemotherapy
New guidelines set benchmark for chemotherapy
A comprehensive set of guidelines to manage the chemotherapy treatment has been developed by a group of South African cancer specialists... read
BizTrends 2017
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#BizTrends2017: Understanding and introducing innovation
Mediclinic believes it is important that there is meaningful scientific data to support new technologies... read
#BizTrends2017: Access to quality, affordable healthcare is the goal
#BizTrends2017: Access to quality, affordable healthcare is the goal
Cost containment, managed healthcare and technology are where healthcare is going in 2017... read


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How analytics, big data could revolutionise healthcare
How analytics, big data could revolutionise healthcare
Despite the pervasive global trend towards digitisation, there is still minimal big data and Business Intelligence (BI) activity in the medical ranks which could relieve an already hampered healthcare sector... read
Financial Services
Final demarcation regulations on medical cover published
Final demarcation regulations on medical cover published

Pericles Anetos

The final demarcation regulations governing medical gap cover, hospital cash plans and primary healthcare policies have been published... read
Hospital Groups
Warning over jobs for sale
Warning over jobs for sale
Community members are warned not to fall victim to scammers who are fraudulently inviting people to apply for nursing, porting and general vacancies at Dr George Mukhari Academic Hospital... read
Medical Research
Study suggests small cell lung cancer should not be treated as single disease
Study suggests small cell lung cancer should not be treated as single disease
A new study in mice suggests that a type of lung cancer could be split into two different diseases based on cells' molecular fingerprints... read
Brain impairments in premature infants may begin in the womb
Brain impairments in premature infants may begin in the womb

Karen N. Peart

Even before they are born, premature babies may display alterations in the circuitry of their developing brains, according to a first-of-its kind research study by Yale School of Medicine researchers... read
Progesterone may be key to preventing recurrent miscarriage
Progesterone may be key to preventing recurrent miscarriage

Karen N. Peart

For women who suffer multiple pregnancy losses in the first four to six weeks of gestation, the hormone progesterone could offer hope for a successful birth, according to a new study... read
Medical Technology
Medical smart jacket tackles misdiagnosis of pneumonia
Medical smart jacket tackles misdiagnosis of pneumonia

Kate Hodal

Following the death of his grandmother from pneumonia, Ugandan engineering undergraduate Brian Turyabagye began designing a biomedical “smart jacket”... read
Genetic testing and personalised medicine
Genetic testing and personalised medicine
Patients are taking control of their own health and the demand more personalised and precise service from their healthcare practitioners... read
Pharmaceuticals
No community service posts for pharmacists
No community service posts for pharmacists
There is a lack of state posts for pharmacists to complete their year of community service, forcing them into unemployment, according to the Pharmaceutical Society of SA... read
Business
What's worrying businesses most in 2017?
What's worrying businesses most in 2017?
Companies increasingly fear the unpredictable business environment, where markets are volatile and political perils are on the rise... read
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