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Healthcare

Data centres: Vital components of critical healthcare systems

3 Jul 2024

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Healthcare

Opposition mounts against NHI Bill

15 May 2024

Healthcare

Court ruling bolsters NHI's recruitment drive ahead of pending Bill approval

1 Mar 2024

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Retail

Woolies, there's a mouse in my chicken...

Danette Breitenbach 5 May 2023

Healthcare

Fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic has been far reaching, report shows

12 Dec 2022

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Legal

Covid-19 regulations eased - but what about the workplace?

Kate Collier and Kenneth Coster 23 Jun 2022

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Amendments of Child Justice Act regulations approved

3 Jun 2022

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Extension on Covid-19 regulation public comments

5 May 2022

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HR & Management

State of Disaster: The end... but not the end for employers

7 Apr 2022

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Healthcare

South Africa must not allow Health Act amendments to replace State of Disaster regulations

Cilliers Brink 6 Apr 2022

Healthcare

SAMA welcomes lifting of National State of Disaster

6 Apr 2022

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Finance

Premier Winde celebrates end of the National State of Disaster

5 Apr 2022

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Healthcare

The National State of Disaster ends

5 Apr 2022

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Legal

Covid-19 Health Regulations published for public comment

17 Mar 2022

Healthcare

South African doctors call for law reform, fearing a harsh penalty if patients die

Henry Lerm and Ethelwynn Stellenberg 4 Mar 2022

Healthcare

World Patient Day focuses on safe and respectful childbirth

17 Sep 2021

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Healthcare

Changing organ donation perceptions

3 Sep 2021

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Healthcare

Why Covid-19 vaccines should be mandatory in South Africa

Keymanthri Moodley 11 Aug 2021

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Healthcare

Limits for human embryo research have been changed: this calls for public debate

Sheetal Soni 1 Jul 2021

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Healthcare

PoPI reinforces systems already in place in the healthcare industry

Justin Malherbe 8 Apr 2021

Judgment confirms importance of disclosure of records in litigation

Legal

Judgment confirms importance of disclosure of records in litigation

Sandra Sithole 24 Mar 2021

Any man-made changes to the human genome must be carefully regulated. Billon Photos/Shutterstock

Healthcare

Five principles that should guide future DNA 'editing' in South Africa

Bonginkosi Shozi & Marietjie Botes 16 Feb 2021

Path to regulatory approval of the Covid-19 vaccine in SA

Legal

Path to regulatory approval of the Covid-19 vaccine in SA

Zareenah Rasool, Rui Lopes and Darryl Bernstein 11 Nov 2020

A researcher performs a CRISPR/Cas9 process at the Max-Delbrueck-Centre for Molecular Medicine in Germany . Gregor Fischer/picture alliance via Getty Images

Healthcare

Covid-19 and gene editing: ethical and legal considerations

Sheetal Soni 25 May 2020

Safeguards for consumers: food labelling

Retail

Safeguards for consumers: food labelling

Issued by Pyrotec 6 Nov 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

Healthcare

Health professionals and cadavers: the quest for an ethical approach

Brendon Kurt Billings & Beverley Kramer 29 Oct 2019

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Healthcare

HMI report: Private sector characterised by high costs and no competition

1 Oct 2019

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Healthcare

South African taxpayers will bear the brunt of NHI

Lee-Ann Steenkamp 29 Aug 2019

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Healthcare

South Africa's healthcare system lacks real data

9 Jul 2019

People queue in makeshift camps following past threats of xenophobic attacks in South Africa. Today, rescinded health department memos requesting foreigners pay in full for healthcare have sparked a national debate. (Fredrik Lemeryd)

Healthcare

Are foreigners really entitled to free healthcare in South Africa?

Sasha Stevenson 13 Mar 2019

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Healthcare

What to do about South Africa's unemployed doctors

Russell Rensburg 25 Feb 2019

Many countries around the world can’t meet the demand for donor organs. Shutterstock

Healthcare

There are many complex reasons for South Africa's organ donor shortage

Harriet Etheredge 9 Jan 2019

Health department expects to be sued over proposed NHI changes

Healthcare

Health department expects to be sued over proposed NHI changes

Pontsho Pilane and Laura Lopez Gonzalez 22 Jun 2018

Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi

Healthcare

Motsoaledi outlines changes to Medical Schemes Act and NHI

22 Jun 2018

Former Gauteng health MEC, Qedani Mahlangu. Photo: Oupa Nkosi

Healthcare

#LifeEsidimeni: In six weeks we'll know if Qedani Mahlangu will be prosecuted

Mia Malan 26 Mar 2018

Neil Kirby, head of the healthcare & life sciences practice at Werksmans Attorneys

Healthcare

#HASA2017: Plotting the legislative pathway to NHI

Nicci Botha 2 Oct 2017

Dr Precious Matsoso, director general, South African National Department of Health

Healthcare

NHI starts with the children

18 Jul 2017

SA lawyers: Motsoaledi, we're not the reason gynaes won't deliver babies

Healthcare

SA lawyers: Motsoaledi, we're not the reason gynaes won't deliver babies

Neil Kirby 19 Jun 2017

Putting management back into events

Marketing & Media

Putting management back into events

Beaulah du Toit 24 Jan 2017

SA still has a way to go in healthcare legislation

Healthcare

SA still has a way to go in healthcare legislation

9 May 2016

Medical practitioners can assist complaints to medical schemes

Legal

Medical practitioners can assist complaints to medical schemes

Neil Kirby 23 Feb 2016

Legal

'By word of mouth' registration for traditional healers may clash with NHA

Neil Kirby 9 Nov 2015

Court's ruling will prevent exodus of healthcare professionals

Legal

Court's ruling will prevent exodus of healthcare professionals

26 Feb 2015

Call for free cancer drugs for all

Healthcare

Call for free cancer drugs for all

20 Nov 2013

HR & Management

Compliance with revised Act cannot ignore practical realities

17 Sep 2012

Legal

Impact of new Bill on confidentiality of medical records

31 Aug 2012

Confidentiality of medical records - know what's lawful

Healthcare

Confidentiality of medical records - know what's lawful

30 Aug 2012

Healthcare

National Assembly approves health amendment bill

15 Aug 2012