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|  | WHO launched a global campaign, 'Antibiotics: Handle with care', during the first World Antibiotic Awareness Week, 16-22 November 2015. Its new multi-country survey reveals widespread public misunderstanding about antibiotic resistance... read
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 | Gauteng MEC for Health, Qedani Mahlangu, has decided to terminate the services of Life Healthcare Esidimeni, one of the largest public/private hospital partnerships in South Africa... read | | |
 | Approximately 95% of adults are at risk of developing the 'big brother' of chickenpox, which is shingles or its painful companion, post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN)... read | | |
 | According to a new study conducted by HIMSS Analytics on behalf of Qlik, organisations are leveraging healthcare data to drive efficiencies in care delivery... read | | |
 | The South African Breastmilk Reserve has launched a Festive Season initiative: Project Breastmilk Santa, which encourages mothers to get into the spirit of giving by donating surplus breastmilk to premature babies in neonatal intensive care units at hospitals around the country... read | | |
 | Ascendis Health has expanded its operation into the manufacture and distribution of branded generic prescription, over-the-counter and complementary medicines, with the purchase of Akacia Healthcare for R345 million. read | | |
 | Global Pharma Health Fund (GPHF), a charitable initiative funded by Merck, which fights counterfeit medicines, has donated a mobile compact laboratory to the Botswana Health Ministry in Gaborone to help detect counterfeit medicines... read | |  | Budding entrepreneur, Lebohang Selloane has been named the winner of the 2015 Business Partners /SME Toolkit Global Entrepreneurship Week's Business Plan Competition for Aspiring Young Entrepreneurs... read | |  | Martijn van Dam visited the Garden of the Future, marking the largest Dutch trade... read | | |
 | A new wound care product, 1 Primary Wound Dressing (1PWD), reduces the time spent on wound care and the costs associated with these procedures... read | | |
 | Douglas Kruger Innovation, and the art of capturing ideas on the fly... read | |
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