Interim results from clinical trials of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will be presented to the United States' Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday 26 February in an effort to obtain an emergency licence for its distribution...
From a healthcare perspective, this year's Budget Speech is significant in three key ways...
Across Africa fast food restaurants have spread at a rapid rate, driven by rising income levels, rapid urbanisation and changing eating habits and lifestyles...
James Boafo 11 Feb 2021
National medicines regulatory authorities are gatekeepers that protect the public from unnecessary harm from health products. They do so in the best tradition of the injunction to "do no harm"...
Andy Gray 11 Feb 2021
As with pregnancy, nutrition is a particular focus of postpartum care. New mothers need the support to recover from the rigours of pregnancy and childbirth so that they can cope well with the different challenges presented by infant care...
Association for Dietetics in South Africa 11 Feb 2021
Less than 30% of researchers worldwide are women and Unesco data shows that only about 30% of all female students choose science, technology, engineering and mathematics (Stem) fields at a tertiary level...
Natasha Joseph, Ogechi Ekeanyanwu & Wale Fatade 11 Feb 2021
Sibongile Mongadi and Kathryn Malherbe have broken down barriers and added tremendous value to the scientific community with healthcare innovations...
Here are just a few ways we're helping men look and feel their best at Skin Renewal...
Dr Graham Duncombe, Renewal Institute 10 Feb 2021
Phase one of vaccine rollout could commence as soon as next week with healthcare workers receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine instead of an AstraZeneca jab...
Covid-19 vaccine supplies are available in various parts of the world. But it's clear that distribution is not symmetrical...
Keymanthri Moodley & Theresa Rossouw 10 Feb 2021
Two University of Pretoria (UP) researchers are among nine researchers in South Africa who have received funding grants from the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) as part of the SHIP programme...
LONDON - Almost all people previously infected with Covid-19 have high levels of antibodies for at least six months that are likely to protect them from reinfection with the disease, results of a major UK study showed...
Kate Kelland 9 Feb 2021
Plans to rollout the AstraZeneca vaccine have been paused after trials showed it to be less effective against mild to moderate forms of the B.1.351 coronavirus variant first identified in South Africa...
There's now another dimension to the race to get people vaccinated. The coronavirus is mutating, potentially making current vaccines less effective against it...
Rob Reddick 8 Feb 2021
The recent move to charge a medical practitioner with murder rather than culpable homicide for the death of a patient after surgery is alarming, because it could deter innovation and new entrants to the profession...
Merlita Kennedy & Jared Ishmael 5 Feb 2021
News reports on mutated, more virulant, strains of the virus most likely conjures movie-like images of an invisible, indestructible enemy causing massive disruption. The reality is fortunately much less dramatic...
Felicity Burt, Dominique Goedhals & Sabeeha Vawda 4 Feb 2021
A webinar, focused on highlighting the imperative for a concerted and collaborative effort to accelerate access to palliative care during Covid-19 and beyond, took place on Sunday, 24 January 2021...
MANGO-OMC 3 Feb 2021
Protecting against counterfeiting and warning of tampering or incorrect storage is essential for pharmaceutical products. Add to this increased legislation and consumer demand for information and pharmaceutical manufacturers have many packaging challenges to contend with...
Pyrotec 3 Feb 2021
Healthcare workers can now register for their Covid-19 vaccine on the Department of Health's online portal
A number of Covid-19 restrictions under adjusted level 3 have been eased following a decline in the number of positive cases, hosipal admission and deaths, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on 1 February...
As South Africa finds itself starting to move out of the second wave of a Covid-19 outbreak, over eight million Covid tests have been carried out in the public and private sector since the start of the pandemic...
Bonitas 2 Feb 2021
JOHANNESBURG - South African nurses called on the government on Monday to ensure overstretched workers in rural clinics and hospitals get access to Covid-19 vaccines as the hard-hit country received its first batch of doses.
Kim Harrisberg 2 Feb 2021
In putting healthcare in South Africa under the microscope, Covid-19 has exposed many weaknesses inherent in the country's fractured socio-economic environment...
Paul Miller, Cipla 2 Feb 2021
To fast track the response to the Covid-19 pandemic, a broad range of candidate Covid-19 vaccines are being investigated...
Ina Skosana 2 Feb 2021
The first batch of one-million doses of the Oxford University-AstraZeneca vaccine from the Serum Institute of India (SII) arrived at OR Tambo International Airport on 1 February 2021.,
Insight Survey's latest South African Cannabis/CBD Industry Landscape Report 2021 carefully unfolds the cannabis landscape in South Africa based on the latest research and information...
Insight Survey 1 Feb 2021
Since Ivermectin took centre stage as a potential treatment for Covid-19, several questions have been raised around whether a cattle drug should be used on people...
Vinny Naidoo 29 Jan 2021
As a young medical doctor over 30 years ago, I had an experience no doctor wants to have. One of my patients, a young boy, died in my arms as we rushed him to the referral hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, to receive treatment...
Monique Wasunna 29 Jan 2021
While there is no proven direct link between diabetes being a direct causal factor of dementia, the number of type 2 diabetes and dementia is rising...
Livewell 29 Jan 2021
The word 'dementia' describes a set of symptoms that may include memory loss and difficulties with thinking, problem-solving, language and other cognitive impairments...
Livewell 29 Jan 2021
South Africans are now able to breathe easier with the new RespiClear Decongestant range from Obel...
ACDOCO SA 28 Jan 2021
The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra) has given the green light for the controlled use of Ivermectin, a veterinary parasitic drug, for Covid-19 infection management in humans...
