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Many of the gaps where healthcare facilities are haemorrhaging profits are related to inefficiencies and pain points that result from the dissatisfaction of other stakeholders in the network, such as patients and medical staff... read
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Central Africa is fighting to maintain momentum in its battle with malaria in the face of various health challenges, climate change and other threats...read
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The minimally invasive Nuss procedure to correct more serious cases of sunken chest deformity, or pectus excavatum is still relatively unknown in South Africa...read
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While in conversation with CSIR principal researcher Benjamin Rosman at the recent SingularityU South Africa Summit 2019 in Johannesburg, Tilly Lockey looked at the possibilities of the future... Read
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Entrepreneur, inventor, researcher and physician Dr Habib Frost presented a talk on the life-saving capabilities of applied computing at the recent SingularityU South Africa 2019 Summit in Johannesburg... Read
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The Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA) Program for Medical Travel Services and The Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa NPC (COHSASA), have announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding for collaboration between the two accreditation programs to strengthen the protocols and services provided by healthcare providers to medical travel and international patients in Africa... Read
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Medical aid plans can be confusing which is why it's important to compare the various options and benefits to ensure you find a medical aid that works for you and your family's health and that is within your budget... Read
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Nutrition
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A 10% weight loss may reverse type 2 diabetes and keeping the weight off may dramatically improve health and stabilise cardiometabolic risk factors, according to new research... Read
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Oncology
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Kenya has launched a national immunisation programme (NIP) for the human-papillomavirus (HPV - the main cause of cervical cancer. Read
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Pharmaceuticals
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JAMES LEAHY
Strides in medicine have contributed to a dramatic increase in life expectancy over the last century. Diseases like HIV and cervical cancer that were essentially death sentences as recently as 30 years ago can now be managed... Read
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EMMA GLENNON & FREYA JEPHCOTT
The ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) recently surpassed 3,000 infections... Read
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A R280m grant will fund a project to develop and evaluate child-friendly treatments for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and assess regimens to prevent the onset of the disease... Read
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Carbon for Business is a digital financial services platform that provides startups, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and fintechs with the services and technology they need... Read
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The Ecommerce Forum South Africa has launched its Safe.Shop Trustmark. The EFSA provides the Trustmark badge to e-commerce platforms that have been confirmed as being compliant... Read
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MIKE MULLER
It has been a hot, dry October in much of the interior of South Africa. And the rains have started later than usual... Read
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DR. GLEB TSIPURSKY
You probably heard the advice for entrepreneurs that "failing to plan is planning to fail." That phrase is a misleading myth at best... Read
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Following four years of moderate progress, the rate of global decarbonisation has slowed to its lowest level since 2011, according to PwC UK's latest Low Carbon Economy Index (LCEI)... Read
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