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Parliament's opening: GNU's NHI execution a key test for government cohesionKatja Hamilton

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Europe: Covid-19 contract-transparency ruling fails to cloud Von der Leyen's future

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Mandela Day: Gauteng's health initiative clears surgery backlog

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Africa Health Congress: SA's new NHI - path to UHC or empty promise?

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Europe: Covid-19 contract-transparency ruling fails to cloud Von der Leyen's future

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Mandela Day: Gauteng's health initiative clears surgery backlog

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Giflo Medical invests R130m in upgrading Vanderbijlpark medical precinct

Giflo Medical invests R130m in upgrading Vanderbijlpark medical precinct

6 Nov 2019

More needs to be done about security at healthcare facilities

5 Nov 2019

Cannabis Expo makes its way to JHB

Cannabis Expo makes its way to JHB

5 Nov 2019

Professor Farrel Hellig

Cardiologist demonstrates intricate procedure

4 Nov 2019

New regulations take aim at listeriosis

New regulations take aim at listeriosis

4 Nov 2019

Corporations misused evidence to manipulate health policy. Shutterstock

How business misrepresented evidence: the South African sugar tax story

Gary Fooks, Gary Sacks, Graham Box & Simon Williams 1 Nov 2019

Netcare is one of three hospital groups found to dominated the facilities market. Shutterstock

How a lack of competition in South Africa's private health sector hurts consumers

1 Nov 2019

#EntrepreneurMonth: Easy to use health records on the go

#EntrepreneurMonth: Easy to use health records on the go

Evan-Lee Courie 1 Nov 2019

Digitising Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Digitising Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

1 Nov 2019

#MTBPS2019: Price of NHI goes up by R33bn

#MTBPS2019: Price of NHI goes up by R33bn

31 Oct 2019

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Potential diagnostic tool, treatment for Parkinson's disease

30 Oct 2019

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HPCSA needs an urgent overhaul

29 Oct 2019

New TB vaccine shows promise

New TB vaccine shows promise

29 Oct 2019

Cadaver-based teaching prepares students intellectually and emotionally to deal with the challenges they will face in their health sciences careers. Dr Tobias Houlton

Health professionals and cadavers: the quest for an ethical approach

Brendon Kurt Billings & Beverley Kramer 29 Oct 2019

Medical Aid - Making the right choice

Medical Aid - Making the right choice

Bonitas 29 Oct 2019

Millions of young children get malaria. These two got it in 2010.
AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam

There's a way for modern medicine to cure diseases even when the treatments aren't profitable

James Leahy 28 Oct 2019

Workshop emphasises benefits of Nuss procedure for sunken chest deformity

Workshop emphasises benefits of Nuss procedure for sunken chest deformity

25 Oct 2019

GHA and COHSASA announce strategic partnership to enhance medical travel standards in Africa

GHA and COHSASA announce strategic partnership to enhance medical travel standards in Africa

COHSASA 25 Oct 2019

Kenya launched HPV immunisation programme

Kenya launched HPV immunisation programme

24 Oct 2019

Leigh Venter and Henri la Grange. T-Systems South Africa

Improving healthcare delivery will stop profits from bleeding

23 Oct 2019

Image: Medicines for Malaria

Climate change could increase the threat of malaria in Central Africa

23 Oct 2019

Grant to fund child-friendly TB treatments

Grant to fund child-friendly TB treatments

22 Oct 2019

Benjamin Rosman in conversation with Tilly Lockey at the SingularityU South Africa Summit 2019.

#SingularityUSouthAfrica2019: What's possible in the future

22 Oct 2019

#SingularityUSouthAfrica2019: How applied computing can save your life

#SingularityUSouthAfrica2019: How applied computing can save your life

22 Oct 2019

The 2019 Galliova Awards Winners: Esther Malan (2019 Galliova Broiler Champion Food Writer); Nomvuselelo Mncube (2019 Galliova Egg Champion Food Writer); Margie Els-Burger (2019 Galliova Food Writer of the Year; Chiara Turilli (2019 Galliova Up & Coming Food Writer of the Year); Glynis Horning (2019 Galliova Health Writer of the Year).

Strong health message resonates at 2019 Galliova Awards

Leigh Andrews 21 Oct 2019

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AI delivers mental health services to children and youth

21 Oct 2019

Innovative efforts have been put in place to reach populations in partially and totally inaccessible parts of Borno state. Wikimedia Commons

Valuable lessons from Nigeria's marathon effort to eradicate polio

Oyewale Tomori 21 Oct 2019

Syringe and cooked heroin. TM_SALE/Shutterstock

Women using heroin in Kenya: why it's important to intervene early in life

Catherine Mwangi & John Gachohi 18 Oct 2019

Dr Paula Fujiwara

National leaders must step in to eradicate TB

18 Oct 2019

Foremost health quality and safety conference for Cape Town

Foremost health quality and safety conference for Cape Town

COHSASA 17 Oct 2019

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Cannabis Expo makes its way to JHB

Cannabis Expo makes its way to JHB

5 Nov 2019

Professor Farrel Hellig

Cardiologist demonstrates intricate procedure

4 Nov 2019

New regulations take aim at listeriosis

New regulations take aim at listeriosis

4 Nov 2019

Corporations misused evidence to manipulate health policy. Shutterstock

How business misrepresented evidence: the South African sugar tax story

Gary Fooks, Gary Sacks, Graham Box & Simon Williams 1 Nov 2019

Netcare is one of three hospital groups found to dominated the facilities market. Shutterstock

How a lack of competition in South Africa's private health sector hurts consumers

1 Nov 2019

#EntrepreneurMonth: Easy to use health records on the go

#EntrepreneurMonth: Easy to use health records on the go

Evan-Lee Courie 1 Nov 2019

Digitising Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Digitising Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

1 Nov 2019

#MTBPS2019: Price of NHI goes up by R33bn

#MTBPS2019: Price of NHI goes up by R33bn

31 Oct 2019

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Potential diagnostic tool, treatment for Parkinson's disease

30 Oct 2019

Image source: Getty/Gallo

HPCSA needs an urgent overhaul

29 Oct 2019

New TB vaccine shows promise

New TB vaccine shows promise

29 Oct 2019

Cadaver-based teaching prepares students intellectually and emotionally to deal with the challenges they will face in their health sciences careers. Dr Tobias Houlton

Health professionals and cadavers: the quest for an ethical approach

Brendon Kurt Billings & Beverley Kramer 29 Oct 2019

Medical Aid - Making the right choice

Medical Aid - Making the right choice

Bonitas 29 Oct 2019

Millions of young children get malaria. These two got it in 2010.
AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam

There's a way for modern medicine to cure diseases even when the treatments aren't profitable

James Leahy 28 Oct 2019

Workshop emphasises benefits of Nuss procedure for sunken chest deformity

Workshop emphasises benefits of Nuss procedure for sunken chest deformity

25 Oct 2019

GHA and COHSASA announce strategic partnership to enhance medical travel standards in Africa

GHA and COHSASA announce strategic partnership to enhance medical travel standards in Africa

COHSASA 25 Oct 2019

Kenya launched HPV immunisation programme

Kenya launched HPV immunisation programme

24 Oct 2019

Leigh Venter and Henri la Grange. T-Systems South Africa

Improving healthcare delivery will stop profits from bleeding

23 Oct 2019

Image: Medicines for Malaria

Climate change could increase the threat of malaria in Central Africa

23 Oct 2019

Grant to fund child-friendly TB treatments

Grant to fund child-friendly TB treatments

22 Oct 2019

Benjamin Rosman in conversation with Tilly Lockey at the SingularityU South Africa Summit 2019.

#SingularityUSouthAfrica2019: What's possible in the future

22 Oct 2019

#SingularityUSouthAfrica2019: How applied computing can save your life

#SingularityUSouthAfrica2019: How applied computing can save your life

22 Oct 2019

The 2019 Galliova Awards Winners: Esther Malan (2019 Galliova Broiler Champion Food Writer); Nomvuselelo Mncube (2019 Galliova Egg Champion Food Writer); Margie Els-Burger (2019 Galliova Food Writer of the Year; Chiara Turilli (2019 Galliova Up & Coming Food Writer of the Year); Glynis Horning (2019 Galliova Health Writer of the Year).

Strong health message resonates at 2019 Galliova Awards

Leigh Andrews 21 Oct 2019

Image source: Getty/Gallo

AI delivers mental health services to children and youth

21 Oct 2019

Innovative efforts have been put in place to reach populations in partially and totally inaccessible parts of Borno state. Wikimedia Commons

Valuable lessons from Nigeria's marathon effort to eradicate polio

Oyewale Tomori 21 Oct 2019

Syringe and cooked heroin. TM_SALE/Shutterstock

Women using heroin in Kenya: why it's important to intervene early in life

Catherine Mwangi & John Gachohi 18 Oct 2019

Dr Paula Fujiwara

National leaders must step in to eradicate TB

18 Oct 2019

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Medical schemes performance underwhelming

17 Oct 2019

Business survival guide during load shedding

Business survival guide during load shedding

17 Oct 2019

Quarter century study on ageing in South Africa offers new perspectives

Kathleen Kahn & Stephen Tollman 17 Oct 2019

Foremost health quality and safety conference for Cape Town

Foremost health quality and safety conference for Cape Town

COHSASA 17 Oct 2019

Genetic studies need to be more diverse.

Most genetic studies use only white participants - this will lead to greater health inequality

Karoline Kuchenbaecker Evangelos Vassos & Roseann Peterson 16 Oct 2019

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Study sheds new light on barriers to a cure for HIV

16 Oct 2019

World Health Organisation

More than 18-million Ugandan children to be immunised against measles, rubella and polio

15 Oct 2019

The costly business of nursing negligence

The costly business of nursing negligence

15 Oct 2019

A community health worker screening a child’s hearing in Cape Town. Ora Buerkli

We used smartphones to screen young children for vision and hearing loss

De Wet Swanepoel 14 Oct 2019

Long live... you! Healthy habits that could add years to your life

Long live... you! Healthy habits that could add years to your life

Irvine Partners 14 Oct 2019

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Managing allergies in the 21st century

14 Oct 2019

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First-line treatment for epileptic seizures ineffective - new study

11 Oct 2019

Medical skincare products are worth the investment

Medical skincare products are worth the investment

Pitsi Kewana, Skin Renewal 11 Oct 2019

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