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Are topical products helping to boost South Africa’s analgesics market?

Healthcare

Are topical products helping to boost South Africa’s analgesics market?

Issued by Insight Survey 19 Jun 2024

Source: Supplied. Bada Pharasi, chief executive officer of Innovative Pharmaceutical Association of South Africa.

Healthcare

Suffering in silence - the mind-body illness connection that many keep a secret

Bada Pharasi 26 Jul 2023

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Legal

6 tips to saving your trade mark from brand genericide

Melissa Morris 25 Nov 2022

Source: Supplied.

Healthcare

First cannabis clinical trial takes off in South Africa

11 Nov 2022

The app for your back - and neck

Healthcare

The app for your back - and neck

Issued by Bonitas 23 Aug 2022

Cannabis tourism: How a new travel trend is taking off

Tourism & Travel

Cannabis tourism: How a new travel trend is taking off

Michael O'Regan 13 Jun 2022

Retail

GlaxoSmithKline rejects Unilever's £50bn bid for consumer health unit

17 Jan 2022

Is SA's cannabis industry predicted to become 'green gold' or 'fool's gold'?

Healthcare

Is SA's cannabis industry predicted to become 'green gold' or 'fool's gold'?

Issued by Insight Survey 1 Feb 2021

How to navigate CBD product purchases

Retail

How to navigate CBD product purchases

27 Jan 2020

Enhance your wellbeing with DR+SWISS

Healthcare

Enhance your wellbeing with DR+SWISS

Issued by OnPoint PR 28 Nov 2019

When you have a pain in the neck or back

Healthcare

When you have a pain in the neck or back

Issued by Bonitas 26 Nov 2019

#SingularityUSouthAfrica2019: How applied computing can save your life

Marketing & Media

#SingularityUSouthAfrica2019: How applied computing can save your life

22 Oct 2019

Many children in South Africa are in pain because they do cannot access palliative care medicines. Photo: Flickr user John Campbell (public domain)

Healthcare

Children are dying in pain because they cannot get the medicines they need

Michelle Meiring 15 Mar 2019

Grand-Pa advertising explosion

Marketing & Media

Grand-Pa advertising explosion

Issued by MegaVision Media 4 Mar 2019

There’s a significant variation in pain sensitivity and tolerance. Shutterstock

Healthcare

Unpacking pain: what causes it and why it's hard to measure

Antonia Wadley & Peter Kamerman 19 Dec 2018

An ethical dilemma for doctors: When is it OK to prescribe opioids?

Healthcare

An ethical dilemma for doctors: When is it OK to prescribe opioids?

Travis N Rieder 9 Apr 2018

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Marketing & Media

Ad firms using tools to help them read your mind

27 Dec 2017

Australia takes GSK, Novartis to court over 'misleading' claims

Legal

Australia takes GSK, Novartis to court over 'misleading' claims

7 Dec 2017

Elizabeth Elfenbein (Health & Wellness jury chairman), partner/chief creative officer of The Bloc USA.

Marketing & Media

Finalists for 2017 Global Awards announced

17 Oct 2017

Study: Minimal standards of palliative care needed

Healthcare

Study: Minimal standards of palliative care needed

13 Oct 2017

Source: allAfrica/The Monitor

Healthcare

How will Uganda drive more cancer patients to hospital?

Flavia Nassaka 28 Feb 2017

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Retail

Costco to pay $11.75m over medical prescriptions

20 Jan 2017

A hard or soft mattress - Which one is best for you

Lifestyle

A hard or soft mattress - Which one is best for you

Issued by Docs.Zone 15 Sep 2016

Publicis Machine's CEO, Adrian Hewlett, and head of group digital strategy, Andy Gilder.

Marketing & Media

Drugstore: Bringing big businesses tech-pain relief

Leigh Andrews 15 Jan 2016

Hair today, gone tomorrow

Lifestyle

Hair today, gone tomorrow

Brian Berkman 19 May 2015

Asthma-related deaths on the rise

Healthcare

Asthma-related deaths on the rise

27 Aug 2013

Colds and flu boost Reckitt Benckiser

Manufacturing

Colds and flu boost Reckitt Benckiser

23 Apr 2013

Healthcare

Foundation launches CSI programmes to support cancer facilities

11 Feb 2013

Creams, patches can ease painful knees

Healthcare

Creams, patches can ease painful knees

17 Oct 2012

Mamba venom holds promise for pain relief

Healthcare

Mamba venom holds promise for pain relief

4 Oct 2012

Research in the news: Gene therapy shows promise in neuron repair and pain relief

Healthcare

Research in the news: Gene therapy shows promise in neuron repair and pain relief

Bill Hathaway 3 Sep 2012

Lifestyle

Children with higher IQ don't eat meat

Refilwe Boikanyo 17 Jan 2012

Crowded emergency departments deliver less effective pain relief

Healthcare

Crowded emergency departments deliver less effective pain relief

29 Dec 2011

The placebo effect: expecting the best, fearing the worst

Healthcare

The placebo effect: expecting the best, fearing the worst

10 Mar 2011

Untreated endometriosis: what are the risks?

Healthcare

Untreated endometriosis: what are the risks?

15 Oct 2010

Healthcare

Top ten myths about sex

12 Feb 2010

Healthcare

Common causes for shoulder pain in adults

25 Aug 2009

Healthcare

Adding neostigmine to epidural analgesia reduces dose needed during labour

28 Jul 2009

Healthcare

Local anaesthetic reduces need for painkillers post-Caesarean section

9 Jul 2009

Healthcare

Warnings about ‘over-use' of paracetamol

6 Jul 2009

Healthcare

In-body stem cell therapy has enormous potential for bone injuries

24 Apr 2009

Healthcare

A good midwife makes giving birth at home as safe as in hospital

17 Apr 2009