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Probe into attempted sale of med school spaces
Probe into attempted sale of med school spaces
Higher education Blade Nzimande has welcomed the investigation into claims of people attempting to sell places to study medicine at the UKZN... read
Put you in Youth Month
Put you in Youth Month
[Issued by Bizcommunity.com] To coincide with Youth Month and CSI Month we're publishing a two-month Content Highlight burst aiming to provide our 464,000 local and global readers with a comprehensive snapshot of the state of CSI projects and programmes in our region... read
Day hospitals: The answer to rising health costs?
Day hospitals: The answer to rising health costs?
[Bibi Goss-Ross] South Africans are faced with the constant increases in the cost of living and an ailing economy, forcing consumers to cut down on spending across the board... read
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Announcing the Pan-African Health Tourism Congress 2017
Announcing the Pan-African Health Tourism Congress 2017

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The Pan-African Health Tourism Congress, scheduled to take place from 8-9 June at the uMfolozi Hotel Casino Convention Resort, Empageni, Richards Bay, is the flagship event of the health tourism sector... read
Exercise Science
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Westin shines a light for early morning joggers with Gear Lending programme
Westin Hotels & Resorts, in celebration of Global Running Day and with hopes to inspire travellers to rise early and own their morning, announced an addition to the brand's Gear Lending programme... read
Hospital Groups
Accreditation Awards from COHSASA May 2017
Accreditation Awards from COHSASA May 2017

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A COHSASA accreditation award means the healthcare organisations have entered a rigorous quality improvement programme and have been assessed against, and comply with, standards recognised by the International Society for Quality in Health Care... read
Nursing Department of Mediclinic Cape Gate receives Quality Award
Nursing Department of Mediclinic Cape Gate receives Quality Award

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Proud members of the Mediclinic Cape Gate nursing team gathered in the hospital's board room in May 2017 to receive the Katrin Kleijnhans Quality Trophy... read
Medical Research
Study: Teaching hospital patients less likely to die
Study: Teaching hospital patients less likely to die
An American study shows that patients admitted to major teaching hospitals are less likely to die... read
Good or bad, medical research funders promise to publish clinical trial results
Good or bad, medical research funders promise to publish clinical trial results
About 50% of clinical trials go unreported, according to several studies, often because the results are negative... read
Medical Technology
African healthcare - ripe for disruption
African healthcare - ripe for disruption
Mobile technology is rapidly transforming the way business is being conducted in Africa, particularly in the healthcare industry, as a result of greater internet connectivity... read
Pharmaceutical Companies
Ascendis buys up more European pharma businesses
Ascendis buys up more European pharma businesses
Ascendis Health is on the acquisition trail once again with the purchase of Romanian pharma companies, Sunwave and NHP Natural Health Pharma... read
Pharmaceuticals
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New regulator will also oversee medical devices
Medical devices will now be regulated, with the newly established South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra), replacing the Medicines Control Council (MCC)... read
Public Health
Looking for genetic clues to Ebola outbreak
Looking for genetic clues to Ebola outbreak

Sora Halake

Tests are underway to determine the genetic sequence of the Ebola virus behind an outbreak in Central Africa... read
Reviewing freedom of choice, as plain packaging tobacco rules considered
Reviewing freedom of choice, as plain packaging tobacco rules considered

Martin van Staden

Freedom of choice flies out the window when so-called ‘bad' choices can summarily be overruled or interfered with by government... read
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Tobacco kills 7-million a year, wreaks environmental havoc: WHO
Smoking and other tobacco use kills more than seven million people each year, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, 30 May, also warning of the dire environmental impact of tobacco production, distribution and waste... read
Surgical Procedures
After a successful cochlear implant, Aloshay Arendse (8) is getting a second chance at childhood. With her from left are anaesthetist Dr Nick Meyersfeld, her grandmother Spasina Isaacs, mother Candice Isaacs, father Ashley Arendse and Dr Gary Kroukamp, one of her surgeons, at Life Kingsbury Hospital. Photo: People's Post
Case study: No such thing as a small anaesthesia
Even small surgeries might necessitate very complicated anaesthetics - as a South African anaesthesiologist experienced during a routine ear operation on a little girl... read
Business
Raimund Snyders, CEO of Old Mutual Insure
Goodbye Mutual & Federal, hello Old Mutual Insure
As of today, Mutual & Federal will be known as Old Mutual Insure... read
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The Pan-African Health Tourism Congress - 7 Jun 2017 to 9 Jun 2017, Empageni
The Pan-African Health Tourism Congress is the flagship event of the health tourism sector, seeking to table, endorse policies and strategies which will help expand the health tourism Industry. Read more >>

Pan-African Health Tourism Congress
MC Group - 8 Jun 2017 to 9 Jun 2017, Durban


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