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| The Commission last week published the final Statement of Issues and Guidelines for Participation in the Market Inquiry into the Private Healthcare Sector. read more>>
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 | The Frost & Sullivan healthcare program manager, Dr Etienne van Wyk, in commenting about the current outbreak of Ebola, states that the current strain of the virus is the Zaire strain, which is the most dangerous and usually associated with 90% mortality rate. However, this outbreak only has a mortality rate of less than 60% percent. Reports are that 1600 have been infected and only 900 have died. read more>> | |
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 | The Parlotones fundraising performance at Pappas restaurant on the Nelson Mandela Square in Sandton, scheduled for 27 August 2014, has been postponed, as the lead singer Kahn Morbee needs emergency... read more>> | | |
 | A Lagos-based startup, Big Cabal Media, has curated and launched an educational Ebola-awareness website aimed at the West African market. In one week the website reportedly saw more than 500,000... read more>> | | |
 | As the costs of thermal imaging cameras comes down, their usage extends to other applications than security, such as detecting fevers at border crossings and providing a safer method for screening patients for breast cancer, instead of less comfortable methods that expose patients to radiation such as mammography. read more>> | | |
 | Seductive Nutrition is a succesful initiative from Unilever Food Solutions, following a study in 10 countries where 5,000 respondents were presented with the same healthy dish described on two menus, one neutrally and the other seductively. The overwhelming preference was for the seductive description. read more>> | | |
 | Ascendis Health has acquired six leading products from Arctic Healthcare, in a deal valued at R151 million. These are Chela-Fer, Menacal7, Chela-Preg, Chela-Mag, Osteoflex and Supa Chewz. read more>> | | |
 | As employee absenteeism costs the South African economy between R12- to 16-billion annually, businesses need to understand, monitor and actively intervene on some of the causes of this, as there is a clear link between employee health, productivity and absenteeism. read more>> | |  | Issued by AHP - Africa Health Placements For the sixth year Africa Health Placements (AHP) will conduct a national survey, in partnership with the Department of Health, asking doctors and dentists to give feedback about their community service year. read more>> | | |  | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Google has agreed in a court settlement to spend at least $250m over the next five years to help fight illegal online pharmacies selling medicines to US customers. read more>> | |  | WASHINGTON, USA: Researchers unveiled a powerful new postage-stamp size chip delivering super-computer performance using a process that mimics the human brain. read more>> | |  | PARIS, FRANCE: Brain-boosting computer games may be as effective as drugs or perhaps even better, in treating severe depression in some elderly people, according to trial results published on Tuesday (5 May) read more>> | | | More International | |
|  | Ships arriving from West Africa pose a bigger threat of importing Ebola cases than flights into Cape Town International Airport from those countries according to SA's health authorities. read more>> | |  | Commuters boarding trains and taxis at the Pretoria Station will now have free access to breast cancer screening, thanks to the opening of Hello Clinic at the station. read more>> | |  | Health Ministers from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) will hold an extraordinary meeting to discuss the state of readiness and develop a common approach in response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. read more>> | |  | When Human Settlements Deputy Minister Zou Kota-Fredericks arrived at Nyanga East township in Cape Town to hand over a house to 74-year-old Egnas Dyidi, a pensioner who is bedridden by illness, started sobbing uncontrollably. read more>> | | | More Government news | |
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