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Hewatele breathes easy, delivering medical oxygen across Africa

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#WorldStrokeDay: Occupational therapists' key role in rehabilitation of stroke survivors

Community health workers, supported by Nehawu, picketed outside the Labour Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday. Photo: Silver Sibiya/GroundUp

Community health workers picket outside Labour Court

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Ster-Kinekor’s Vision Mission assists eye care health across SA

Ster-Kinekor’s Vision Mission assists eye care health across SA

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Mancosa launches School of Healthcare

Mancosa launches School of Healthcare

22 Aug 2022

Pfizer to acquire Global Blood Therapeutics for $5.4bn

22 Aug 2022

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Long waiting list to receive organs in South Africa

18 Aug 2022

Ralmed doctors and hospitals the heart of South African medical healthcare

Ralmed doctors and hospitals the heart of South African medical healthcare

Ralmed 18 Aug 2022

Source: Reuters.

Zimbabwe measles outbreak blamed on sect gatherings kills 157 children

Nyasha Chingono 17 Aug 2022

Source: Supplied.

Child pregnancies reach crisis point in South Africa

17 Aug 2022

BHF launches legal action against the Council for Medical Schemes

17 Aug 2022

Source: Supplied.

UCT honours renowned women's health champion in South Africa

Niémah Davids 16 Aug 2022

Source: Supplied. Thato Mabudusha Schermer, co-founder and chief executive officer at Zoie Health.

#WomensMonth: Digital women's health and wellness clinic - created by women, for women of Africa

Katja Hamilton 16 Aug 2022

Addressing maternal mental healthcare in Africa

16 Aug 2022

Second monkeypox case detected in the Western Cape

16 Aug 2022

Society for Advanced Cell Culture Modelling for Africa Conference 2022

Society for Advanced Cell Culture Modelling for Africa Conference 2022

SACCMA 16 Aug 2022

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#NedbankIMC2022: Neurodiversity drives competitive workforce

Katja Hamilton 15 Aug 2022

Johnson & Johnson to stop sale of talcum baby powder globally

Johnson & Johnson to stop sale of talcum baby powder globally

15 Aug 2022

Source: Reuters. A worker at Aspen Pharmacare, is seen at its Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine facility in Gqeberha.

Aspen Covid vaccine lines risk going idle as J&J orders dwindle

Promit Mukherjee and Wendell Roelf 11 Aug 2022

Influencer marketing is not only about popping champagne bottles

11 Aug 2022

Medshield encourages well-being in the workplace

Medshield encourages well-being in the workplace

Alan Fritz, Stone 11 Aug 2022

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Foreign healthcare workers benefit from updated Critical Skills List

Nivaani Moodley and Bianca Rutherfoord-Jones 10 Aug 2022

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Council for Medical Schemes recommends capping 2023 medical aid increases

Paresh Prema 10 Aug 2022

Measure your blood pressure accurately, control it, live longer!

Measure your blood pressure accurately, control it, live longer!

Stone 10 Aug 2022

What consumers need to know about Prescribed Minimum Benefits (PMBs) cover

What consumers need to know about Prescribed Minimum Benefits (PMBs) cover

Alan Fritz, Stone 10 Aug 2022

Source: Supplied. Karen Nebe.

#WomensMonth: We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are

Katja Hamilton 9 Aug 2022

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Telemedicine: Modern marvel or indemnity headache?

Dr Elizabeth Meyer 8 Aug 2022

How do healthcare managers lead to succeed?

Dr. Nivisha Parag 8 Aug 2022

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UCT opens cervical cancer screening site

5 Aug 2022

Source: Supplied. A woman walks past the entrance of Mediclinic in Sandton, South Africa.

Consortium to buy Mediclinic for $4.49bn

Promit Mukherjee and Sinchita Mitra 5 Aug 2022

Source: Supplied. Reuters. A healthcare worker administers the Pfizer coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccine to a man, amidst the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 variant Omicron, in Johannesburg, South Africa.

SA reports first death causally linked to Covid vaccine

Alexander Winning and Mark Potter 5 Aug 2022

Source: Supplied. Debbie Gebhardt, chief executive officer at CheckKnowPrevent.

#WomensMonth: When it comes to breast cancer, ignorance is not bliss

Katja Hamilton 4 Aug 2022

Source: Supplied. Damian McHugh executive at Momentum Health Solutions.

Predicting South Africa's healthcare of tomorrow against the backdrop of the NHI

Damian McHugh 2 Aug 2022

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Sierra Leone doctors strike over pay, fuel allowances

Umaru Fofana, Nellie Peyton and Grant McCool 2 Aug 2022

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Biden signs historic inflation act

Nandita Bose and Steve Holland 19 Aug 2022

Johnson & Johnson to stop sale of talcum baby powder globally

Johnson & Johnson to stop sale of talcum baby powder globally

15 Aug 2022

Source: iStock.

Sierra Leone doctors strike over pay, fuel allowances

Umaru Fofana, Nellie Peyton and Grant McCool 2 Aug 2022

Source: Reuters. A nurse administers the malaria vaccine to an infant at the Lumumba sub-county hospital in Kisumu, Kenya.

Vaccine group invites African states to apply for malaria shot support

Jennifer Rigby and Mark Heinrich 21 Jul 2022

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Long waiting list to receive organs in South Africa

18 Aug 2022

Ralmed doctors and hospitals the heart of South African medical healthcare

Ralmed doctors and hospitals the heart of South African medical healthcare

Ralmed 18 Aug 2022

Source: Reuters.

Zimbabwe measles outbreak blamed on sect gatherings kills 157 children

Nyasha Chingono 17 Aug 2022

Source: Supplied.

Child pregnancies reach crisis point in South Africa

17 Aug 2022

BHF launches legal action against the Council for Medical Schemes

17 Aug 2022

Source: Supplied.

UCT honours renowned women's health champion in South Africa

Niémah Davids 16 Aug 2022

Source: Supplied. Thato Mabudusha Schermer, co-founder and chief executive officer at Zoie Health.

#WomensMonth: Digital women's health and wellness clinic - created by women, for women of Africa

Katja Hamilton 16 Aug 2022

Addressing maternal mental healthcare in Africa

16 Aug 2022

Second monkeypox case detected in the Western Cape

16 Aug 2022

Society for Advanced Cell Culture Modelling for Africa Conference 2022

Society for Advanced Cell Culture Modelling for Africa Conference 2022

SACCMA 16 Aug 2022

Source: iStock.

#NedbankIMC2022: Neurodiversity drives competitive workforce

Katja Hamilton 15 Aug 2022

Source: Reuters. A worker at Aspen Pharmacare, is seen at its Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine facility in Gqeberha.

Aspen Covid vaccine lines risk going idle as J&J orders dwindle

Promit Mukherjee and Wendell Roelf 11 Aug 2022

Influencer marketing is not only about popping champagne bottles

11 Aug 2022

Medshield encourages well-being in the workplace

Medshield encourages well-being in the workplace

Alan Fritz, Stone 11 Aug 2022

Image source: Edward Jenner from

Foreign healthcare workers benefit from updated Critical Skills List

Nivaani Moodley and Bianca Rutherfoord-Jones 10 Aug 2022

Source: FreePik.

Council for Medical Schemes recommends capping 2023 medical aid increases

Paresh Prema 10 Aug 2022

Measure your blood pressure accurately, control it, live longer!

Measure your blood pressure accurately, control it, live longer!

Stone 10 Aug 2022

What consumers need to know about Prescribed Minimum Benefits (PMBs) cover

What consumers need to know about Prescribed Minimum Benefits (PMBs) cover

Alan Fritz, Stone 10 Aug 2022

Source: Supplied. Karen Nebe.

#WomensMonth: We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are

Katja Hamilton 9 Aug 2022

Image source: Tima Miroshnichenko from

Telemedicine: Modern marvel or indemnity headache?

Dr Elizabeth Meyer 8 Aug 2022

How do healthcare managers lead to succeed?

Dr. Nivisha Parag 8 Aug 2022

Source: Freepik.

UCT opens cervical cancer screening site

5 Aug 2022

Source: Supplied. A woman walks past the entrance of Mediclinic in Sandton, South Africa.

Consortium to buy Mediclinic for $4.49bn

Promit Mukherjee and Sinchita Mitra 5 Aug 2022

Source: Supplied. Reuters. A healthcare worker administers the Pfizer coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccine to a man, amidst the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 variant Omicron, in Johannesburg, South Africa.

SA reports first death causally linked to Covid vaccine

Alexander Winning and Mark Potter 5 Aug 2022

Source: Supplied. Debbie Gebhardt, chief executive officer at CheckKnowPrevent.

#WomensMonth: When it comes to breast cancer, ignorance is not bliss

Katja Hamilton 4 Aug 2022

Source: Supplied. Damian McHugh executive at Momentum Health Solutions.

Predicting South Africa's healthcare of tomorrow against the backdrop of the NHI

Damian McHugh 2 Aug 2022

Towards a pro-breastfeeding culture in South Africa

Towards a pro-breastfeeding culture in South Africa

Association for Dietetics in South Africa 2 Aug 2022

Biz Most Read Award winners July 2022

Biz Most Read Award winners July 2022

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Health issues affecting women

Health issues affecting women

Intercare 1 Aug 2022

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Ramaphosa puts national and provincial health departments under SIU investigation

29 Jul 2022

Source: Supplied. Dr Peter Hsu, a nephrologist who practises at Netcare Milpark Hospital, was awarded his PhD following his completion of the largest known study on cardiovascular risk in chronic renal patients to date in South Africa.

Local study advances global understanding of CVD risk in renal patients

27 Jul 2022

The importance of heart health in cancer care

26 Jul 2022

Supplied. Dr Aamir Hameed, lecturer in the department of anatomy and regenerative medicine at RCSI.

New heart model to help treat patients with heart failure

26 Jul 2022

World Bank funds Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention $100m

Alexander Winning, Joe Bavier and Andrew Cawthorne. 25 Jul 2022

Source: Twitter.

CapeBio Technologies scoops prestigious award

Katja Hamilton 22 Jul 2022

Source: Reuters. South African surgeons Dr Tim Forgan and Dr Imraan Mia use a robot called DaVinci to perform delicate operations at the Tygerberg hospital in Cape Town.

Cape Town hospital uses robot at forefront of surgery in Africa

Wendell Roelf and Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo 22 Jul 2022

Corporate wellness: Eating well in hybrid work times

Corporate wellness: Eating well in hybrid work times

Association for Dietetics in South Africa 21 Jul 2022

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