Covid-19 vaccines and other scheduled medicines have also been named as goods taken by looters in the recent unrest, which has a potential devastating impact on our already stretched health system...
Africa's Covid-19 vaccine challenges have been a bitter pill for many governments to swallow as they watch developed countries race ahead with their vaccination programmes...
Africa's Covid-19 vaccine challenges have been a bitter pill for many governments to swallow as they watch developed countries race ahead with their vaccination programmes...
The new RespiClear Decongestant range from OBEL boasts steroid-free nebs, petroleum-free vapour rub and preservative-free drops for inhalation...
ACDOCO SA 9 Jul 2021
Since the Covid-19 pandemic struck South Africa, we have set about sanitising our hands at regular intervals, and spraying down potentially contagious items and surfaces. But all anti-viral disinfectants are not made equal...
Sani-Med 6 Jul 2021
Kathy Malherbe spoke to Dr Morgan Mkhatshwa, head of operations at Bonitas Medical Fund, about generics and biosimilars and how they contribute towards reducing healthcare costs...
Bonitas 6 Jul 2021
Dis-Chem has launched a same-day on-demand delivery service, offering customers delivery within 60 minutes across a range of 7,000 items spanning health, nutrition, beauty and electrical products...
The controversial approval of a new Alzheimer's drug by the FDA apparently revolves around the fact that US regulators believe it is the only one that could treat the underlying disease, rather than just managing symptoms...
In the race between infection and injection, injection has lost...
Maria De Jesus 23 Jun 2021
The Covid-19 crisis has revived discussions on localising vaccine manufacturing to the African region to reduce the dependence on imports...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said that it is setting up a technology transfer hub for producing mRNA Covid-19 vaccines in South Africa, which could start manufacturing doses in nine to 12 months...
Side effects observed in follow-up studies of health workers vaccinated with the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) shot in the Sisonke Study are similar to those in other parts of the world, and other vaccines...
South Africa has started the second phase of its Covid-19 vaccine rollout. The aim is to vaccinate essential workers, people in congregate settings such as nursing homes, those over 60 years of age and other vulnerable groups...
Velisha Ann Perumal-Pillay 11 Jun 2021
In October 2020, South Africa and India called on World Trade Organisation members to support a proposal to suspend the WTO's agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (Trips), for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic...
Chyreene Truluck 10 Jun 2021
During these unprecedented times, our healthcare workers have shown that superheroes don't always wear capes...
Cipla 7 Jun 2021
