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| | [Linda Ensor] Insurance companies will get a two-year transition period to phase out existing primary healthcare policies... read |
| | In a first for South Africa, a mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the parotid was successfully removed from a three-year-old boy... read |
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| New doctors have a much bigger role to play than keeping their patients healthy, Professor William Pick tells graduates... read | | |
| Uthentira Govender and Matthew Savides The pacemaker implanted into a healthy Durban man might not have been for the patient's wellbeing, but part of a plot to swindle insurance companies... read | | |
| Access to core malaria-fighting tools has expanded rapidly for the world's most vulnerable populations... read | | |
| Many consumers are bewildered by the escalating costs of medical care, and feel powerless in the face of double-digit increases from the country's largest medical schemes... read | | | GEMS has uncovered suspected fraud, waste and abuse practices amounting to several millions on the part of a number of healthcare service providers and members... read | | |
| A prototype vaccine for Ebola has proven effective in Guinea, according to the WHO. It hopes fast-track approval will emerge by 2018... read | | | The Novartis Next Generation Scientist (NGS) programme is a mentorship programme run in collaboration with various South African universities and the University of Basel, Switzerland.. read | | | Elderly people treated by female doctors while in the hospital had significantly better survival rates and fewer readmissions than those treated by their male counterparts... read | | |
| Advanced imaging technology is part of the upgrade to the cardiac catheterisation laboratory at a hospital in Johannesburg... read | | | The potential of 3D printing technology to benefit people with disabilities is particularly relevant across Africa because of the low costs and short turnaround time... read | | |
| BevSA says sugar intake is best controlled by education and product reformulation... read | | |
| Apart from cancer, new findings suggest that treating other diseases involving abnormal blood vessel formation might also benefit from the use of IDO1 inhibitors... read | | | Merck has followed up the success of its Cancer Access Program, which empowers women in the field of oncology, where they were underrepresented, with another initiative that empowers African women - this time in the field of research, to offer better health care to women... read | | | A new integrative cancer centre, Hummingbird, offers a fully integrated holistic way of tackling cancer based upon global research. read | | |
| Galgalo Bocha and Alex Njeru The Kenyan government has been challenged to take over the responsibility of paying salaries of the striking doctors from the counties... read | | | Dr Lungile Pepeta has left the public sector to become dean of health sciences at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University... read | | | A senior Buffalo City Municipality (BCM) manager was hired for a R1-million-a-year job despite allegedly not meeting all the requirements for the top position... read | | | Both Grey Health Group and Havas Health will support the Young Globals student competition & internship programme as official corporate sponsors and mentor emerging young creatives by providing internship opportunities to this year's winning teams... read | | | A new study questions whether the premise that delivering babies at local primary care facilities will reduce maternal and infant deaths is, in fact, correct... read | | |
| Leigh Andrews This week, we find out what's really going on behind the selfie with Gjermund Nesland, national team manager of the Norwegian Kickboxing Federation as well as entrepreneur... read | | | For first time in over 20 years, someone new will be in charge of the medical operations at Fifa tournaments, and he's South African to boot... read | | |
| The new hype is the ability to analyse various types of information that are not based at the same location - termed deep analytics... read | |
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