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Africa offers $40,8bn pharma opportunity
Africa offers $40,8bn pharma opportunity
The growing incidence of Western lifestyle diseases will present the pharmaceutical industry in Africa with a business opportunity of $40,8bn in 2019... read
Discovery asks for dismissal of Afrocentric claim
Discovery asks for dismissal of Afrocentric claim
[Michelle Gumede] Discovery has asked to have the Competition Tribunal throw out a complaint of collective bargaining against them... read
Schemes battle doctor group at tribunal
Schemes battle doctor group at tribunal
[Tamar Kahn] Sama and the CMS are to square off at the Competition Tribunal in their long-running row over how specialists bill patients... read
CSI
Organ Donor Foundation of SA receives R28K cheque from Profmed
Organ Donor Foundation of SA receives R28K cheque from Profmed
Profmed has presented The Organ Donor Foundation of South Africa with a cheque for R28,000. This is following the commitment it made to donate R5 for each member who participated in the third annual Profmed Stress Index Survey... read
Exhibitions & Events
Cape Town to host international conference on healthcare quality and patient safety
Cape Town to host international conference on healthcare quality and patient safety

Issued by COHSASA

In 2019 Cape Town will play host to what is regarded as the most prestigious of all conferences dealing with quality improvement and patient safety in health care... read
Medical Technology
Smartphones are revolutionising medicine
Smartphones are revolutionising medicine
Smartphones are revolutionising the diagnosis and treatment of illnesses, thanks to add-ons and apps that make their ubiquitous small screens into medical devices, researchers say... read
Nutrition
#DesignMonth: What's in your lunch box?
#DesignMonth: What's in your lunch box?

Cari Coetzee

FOODwelove aims to change how offices eat by offering desk jockeys the option to have a healthy and wholesome lunch delivered in a cleverly designed box, straight to their desk... read
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Less than 7% of health facilities nationwide offer abortions - Amnesty International
Less than 7% of health facilities nationwide offer abortions - Amnesty International

Ina Skosana

In some provinces, safe, free abortions may only be provided at about 260 public facilities... read
Oncology
Limiting lung cancer's spread and growth in the brain
Limiting lung cancer's spread and growth in the brain

Ziba Kashef

More people die of lung cancer each year than breast, colon, and prostate cancers combined. One particularly lethal form of the disease is lung adenocarcinoma... read
Pharmaceuticals
Health & Pharma added to LIA competition for 2017
Health & Pharma added to LIA competition for 2017
In response to creatives for the inclusion of a Health & Pharmaceuticals award, London International Awards (LIA) has announced the addition of two new juries to judge entries in the new categories in the 2017 awards... read
Public Health
South Africa isn't budgeting for its care economy. What can be done about it
South Africa isn't budgeting for its care economy. What can be done about it

Lisa Vetten

The South African government pays dedicated care workers less than anyone else in its employ - as little as R500 (US$39) a month... read
Business
Section 7C creates revenue stream for SARS
Section 7C creates revenue stream for SARS

Madelein Grobler

Introducing tax on interest-free or low-interest rate loan, advance or credit to a trust by a connected person may entitle the SARS to a windfall... read
Upcoming events
31st International Papillomavirus Conference (HPV)
Kenes International - 28 Feb 2017 to 4 Mar 2017, Cape Town


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