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Global surgical robotics market expected to reach $28.8 billion
Allied Market Research has released a report, 'World Surgical Robotics Market - Opportunities and Forecasts, 2014 - 2020', which indicates that the global sales of surgical robotic systems are projected to reach $6.4 billion by 2020... read



Design Month
[Design Indaba 2016] Building for social change

Ann Nurock

Most of the speakers at this year's Design Indaba were inspirational, but there were some who just consumed one with emotion in their quest to do good for society... read
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CSI
Discovery commits R1m to SADAG
Discovery this week announced its commitment of R1m to the South African Depression and Anxiety Group (SADAG) Suicide Helpline... read
Casual Day 2015 raises R21m for disability organisations
The top performers of the 2015 Casual Day campaign were announced at an awards breakfast at the Elangeni Hotel in Durban last week... read
Medical Aid
Medical practitioners can assist complaints to medical schemes

Neil Kirby

Lodging a complaint with a medical scheme can be a traumatic process for a member, especially where benefits may have been denied on technical grounds by a medical scheme and the benefits are desperately needed by the member in order to deal with a severe chronic condition, such as any one of many cancers... read
Public Health
Major legal changes in health care
There are four key legislative areas, which will be significant in the industry this year... read
Center for Disease Control and Prevention issues warning on travel to South America

Amanda Bourlier

The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a travel alert for 22 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, encouraging travellers to affected areas to take extra precautions to avoid exposure to the Zika virus. This follows the outbreak of the mosquito-borne virus in much of Latin America... read



International
Harness the power of data for successful business intelligence

Chirag Shivalker

Industrial domains, across globe are struggling hard to get optimum value out of their data; healthcare/life science industry is no exception... read
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