Doctors can now prescribe ivermectin to Covid-19 patients, thanks to an order handed down by the Pretoria High Court...
Being a new virus, Covid-19 has evoked a great deal of uncertainty around which treatments will be beneficial to patients...
The South African Police Service (SAPS) this week seized unregistered medicines worth a market value of R126 million at the OR Tambo International Airport...
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
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
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...
There is a clamour by some people for ivermectin to be approved by the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra) to treat Covid-19...
Rufaro Samanga 15 Jan 2021
A new triple drug therapy with the potential to reduce the time to treat and break transmission of lymphatic filariasis (LF) from at least five years down to two years is being piloted in Kenya...
New biotechnologies that allow scientists to quickly and accurately distinguish species based on a DNA analysis are being deployed against the major global disease, elephantiasis.
A recently-published, three-year, multi-country study demonstrates how community delivery of underutilized health interventions in an integrated manner can dramatically improve access to vital drugs and preventive treatments, particularly for malaria, in remote African communities.