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First hospital ceiling collapse happened last month
Part of Charlotte Maxeke Hospital is cordoned off because an earlier ceiling collapse still hasn't been repaired... read
New drug option for Aids patients with TB
New drug option for Aids patients with TB
[Ashleigh Furlong] Some Aids patients, also with TB, start taking antiretrovirals hoping to get better. But they get sicker, temporarily at least... read
Vaccine 90-100% effective against HPV
Vaccine 90-100% effective against HPV
According to the WHO, by the end of 2014, the HPV vaccine was available in 63 countries, including South Africa... read
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Nestlé SA launches Choose Wellness, Choose Nestlé campaign
Aesthetic Medicine
Is medical tourism on its own enough?
Is medical tourism on its own enough?

Constantine Constantinides

Medical tourism is about health-related services provided by a medical doctor and involves some travel, but medical tourism is also about destinations. Are destinations that focus exclusively on medical tourism, sustainable? read
Oncology
Breast cancer specialist adds thyroid treatment to services
Breast cancer specialist adds thyroid treatment to services
Professor Justus Apffelstaedt is now offering a holistic service for thyroid and parathyroid health and the treatment of related diseases... read
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How will Uganda drive more cancer patients to hospital?

Flavia Nassaka

Every Friday morning at the Uganda Cancer Institute is free screening time. Being the biggest cancer facility in the country, coupled with ever-increasing cases, one would expect to see some quite big numbers. But that is rarely the case... read
Pharmaceutical Companies
Cipla to sell its 100% stake in SA agri and vet businesses
Cipla to sell its 100% stake in SA agri and vet businesses
Pharmaceutical company, Cipla, agreed to divest its 100% stake in Cipla Agrimed, South Africa and Cipla Vet, South Africa for a total consideration of R375m... read
Pharmaceuticals
The labelling solution for the pharmaceutical industry
The labelling solution for the pharmaceutical industry

Issued by Pyrotec

How do pharmaceutical product owners ensure that all the mandatory information such as dosage instructions, contra-indications and other important patient safety information fits neatly on the label or outer packaging?... read
Public Health
Environmental risks kill 1.7-million kids under five a year: WHO
Environmental risks kill 1.7-million kids under five a year: WHO
More than one in four deaths in children under five are linked to polluted environments, according to two new World Health Organization reports published on Monday, 6 March... read
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Renovations at Nigeria's largest hospital complete
A N200m renovation project to sections of the Murtala Muhammed Specialists' Hospital in Kano, Nigeria has been completed... read
Source: Rural Health Advocacy Group
Radical transformation begins with fixing how we fund healthcare in remote areas

Russell Rensburg and Marije Versteeg-Mojanaga

Once slices of the healthcare funding pie are dished out to provinces, there is little control over how this money is spent to benefit the rural poor... read
Service delivery starts with data. See who's been missing from the spreadsheets
Service delivery starts with data. See who's been missing from the spreadsheets

Dominic Haslam

Tanzania's most recent national census tells us that about one in 16 people has a disability in the Ruvuma region. But what if the true number was closer to one in five?.. read
Women's Health
Using mobile to boost access to safe, legal abortion services
Using mobile to boost access to safe, legal abortion services
Created by safe2choose, Fem is a new initiative designed to give South Africans access to immediate and locally relevant sexual health services and information, via an SMS platform... read
Business
Credit act bill aims to provide debt forgiveness
Credit act bill aims to provide debt forgiveness

Linda Ensor

The National Assembly its unanimous go-ahead to develop a bill amending the National Credit Act to provide debt relief to consumers... read
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Intern Psychologists - Stellenbosch
Stellenbosch University currently seeks to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced intern psychologists (four posts for six-month contracts). (Ref. SSVO/076/0217). Applications close 15 March 2017. Read more >>

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