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Public Health

Global health at risk: AHF warns against unfair WHO Pandemic Agreement

24 May 2024

Big pharma called out on sky-high cost of blood-pressure drugs

Healthcare

Big pharma called out on sky-high cost of blood-pressure drugs

17 May 2022

Swapping probiotics for antibiotics: How it could be a game changer for chickens, and us

Agro-processing

Swapping probiotics for antibiotics: How it could be a game changer for chickens, and us

3 Dec 2021

Source: ©Leigh Prather

Covid-19

South Africa's vaccine quagmire, and what needs to be done now

Alex van den Heever, Imraan Valodia, Shabir A Madhi & Willem Venter 5 Jul 2021

#WomensMonth: Sandra Orta helps provide healthtech innovations across Africa

Technology

#WomensMonth: Sandra Orta helps provide healthtech innovations across Africa

Evan-Lee Courie 13 Aug 2020

A victim of the Aids pandemic is buried in Cape Town in 2004. Kim Ludbrook/EPA.

Media

Coronavirus media coverage must avoid the mistakes of the Aids pandemic in Africa

Ludek Stavinoha 13 Jul 2020

Giant advantages. Bloomicon

Taxation & Regulation

Biggest companies pay the least tax, leaving society more vulnerable to pandemic - new research

Sandy Brian Hager & Joseph Baines 6 Apr 2020

Pharmaceuticals

Secret histories of drugs - legal and illegal - in southern Africa

Thembisa Waetjen, Julie Parle & Rebecca Hodes 30 Jan 2020

A.G. Sanders with penicillin extraction equipment. Image reproduced with permission of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Author provided

Pharmaceuticals

Big Pharma has failed: the antibiotic pipeline needs to be taken under public ownership

Claas Kirchhelle, Adam Roberts & Andrew Singer 20 Nov 2019

Millions of young children get malaria. These two got it in 2010.
AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam

Pharmaceuticals

There's a way for modern medicine to cure diseases even when the treatments aren't profitable

James Leahy 28 Oct 2019

Big Pharma emits more greenhouse gases than the automotive industry

Climate Change

Big Pharma emits more greenhouse gases than the automotive industry

Lotfi Belkhir 28 May 2019

How to kick-start an FMCG product in the pharmaceutical space

FMCG

How to kick-start an FMCG product in the pharmaceutical space

Eben Esterhuizen 23 May 2019

5 things to know before entering the pharmaceutical market

Health & Beauty

5 things to know before entering the pharmaceutical market

Eben Esterhuizen 15 May 2019

Andrii Vodolazhskyi/Shutterstock

Oncology

Cancer growth in the body could originate from a single cell - target it to revolutionise treatment

Michael P Lisanti 21 Feb 2019

Photo credit: Roy Potterill

Pharmaceuticals

Patents and access to medicine

Nicci Botha 2 Feb 2017

#BestofBiz 2016: Healthcare

Healthcare

#BestofBiz 2016: Healthcare

12 Dec 2016

Compounding: removing the one-size-fits-all dosage approach of Big Pharma

Pharmaceuticals

Compounding: removing the one-size-fits-all dosage approach of Big Pharma

3 Nov 2016

Is big pharma trying to muscle out the natural medicine industry?

Pharmaceuticals

Is big pharma trying to muscle out the natural medicine industry?

Daleen Totten 25 Jul 2016

Cape Health Technology Park could add R10 billion to economy

Hospital Groups

Cape Health Technology Park could add R10 billion to economy

3 Dec 2015

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Branding

The extent of Volkswagen's brand damage is debatable

Chris Moerdyk 29 Sep 2015

Generic Medicines

Generic market set for rapid growth in 2012

6 Feb 2012

Gilead licence expands access, but several countries left out

Pharmaceuticals

Gilead licence expands access, but several countries left out

22 Jul 2011

Medical Research

Antwerp ITM calls for change in WHO guidelines on Buruli ulcer

18 Jun 2010

Design & Manufacturing

Eskom hike has big pharma on the run

21 Jan 2010

Banking & Finance

Opportunity knocks for big pharma in credit crunch

Dr. Chris Phelps 9 Oct 2008

Oncology

Bone metastases: can you teach an old drug new tricks?

14 May 2008

Pharmaceuticals

Pharma must adapt to changing market dynamics in 2008

11 Apr 2008

Noncommunicable diseases

HD could attract ‘big pharma' investment

11 Jan 2008