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Adcock Ingram's strategic alliance with Medline set to transform South African healthcare

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SAHPRA extends Keytruda approval to lung and bladder cancer treatment

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How Dis-Chem customers changed their shopping behaviour during lockdown

How Dis-Chem customers changed their shopping behaviour during lockdown

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Why Africa needs more antibiotic trials involving children

Why Africa needs more antibiotic trials involving children

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How is Covid-19 boosting SA's cough, cold and flu remedies market?

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Steroid shows promise in treating serious Covid-19 cases

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Collaboration key to helping pharma supply chains weather Covid-19 storm

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The case for avoiding price controls in times of crisis: they don't work

The case for avoiding price controls in times of crisis: they don't work

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SA to breathe easier with landmark OBEL Respiclear range

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KZN pharmacy admits to excessive pricing of face masks

KZN pharmacy admits to excessive pricing of face masks

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Dis-Chem charged with inflating prices of face masks

Dis-Chem charged with inflating prices of face masks

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Mr D Food-MediRite partnership delivers medicine to your door

Mr D Food-MediRite partnership delivers medicine to your door

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More clinical trials in African countries can help ensure that any vaccines or treatments developed cater to the continent’s genetic diversity. CELLOU BINANI/AFP via Getty Images

Few clinical trials are done in Africa: Covid-19 shows why this urgently needs to change

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Gut Microbiome testing now available in South Africa

Gut Microbiome testing now available in South Africa

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Covid-19: Commission to deal with suppliers who inflate prices

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Preventing TB: a big drug price cut paves the way for global scale-up

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Mr D Food-MediRite partnership delivers medicine to your door

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More clinical trials in African countries can help ensure that any vaccines or treatments developed cater to the continent’s genetic diversity. CELLOU BINANI/AFP via Getty Images

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Gut Microbiome testing now available in South Africa

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23 Mar 2020

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Vaccines without needles - new shelf-stable film could revolutionise how medicines are distributed worldwide

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The government must harness analytical technologies developed by pharmaceutical scientists in Nigeria Sebastian Condrea/GettyImages

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The analgesic Grand-pa is among the most common pharmatrash in this study. Rebecca Hodes

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Rebecca Hodes 12 Feb 2020

Traditional medicines sold at a South African market.
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The story of the pharma giant and the African yam

William Beinart 10 Feb 2020

A history of how sedatives took hold in white South Africa

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Secret histories of drugs - legal and illegal - in southern Africa

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Bacteriophages infecting a bacterial cell.
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Preventing TB: a big drug price cut paves the way for global scale-up

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Big Pharma has failed: the antibiotic pipeline needs to be taken under public ownership

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