News
Telehealth + COVID-19 adding new dimension to practice management*
Telehealth is a focus at present, given the surge of COVID-19 – a focus that has served to update and expand regulations around telehealth...
Allergy
More volunteers needed for COVID-19 Doctors on Call Programme
The Covid-19 Doctors on Call oversight committee is appealing to all South African registered doctors to consider voluntary participation in the Covid-19 Doctors on...
Cardiology
More volunteers needed for COVID-19 Doctors on Call Programme
The Covid-19 Doctors on Call oversight committee is appealing to all South African registered doctors to consider voluntary participation in the Covid-19 Doctors on...
Critical Care
More volunteers needed for COVID-19 Doctors on Call Programme
The Covid-19 Doctors on Call oversight committee is appealing to all South African registered doctors to consider voluntary participation in the Covid-19 Doctors on...
Dermatology
More volunteers needed for COVID-19 Doctors on Call Programme
The Covid-19 Doctors on Call oversight committee is appealing to all South African registered doctors to consider voluntary participation in the Covid-19 Doctors on...
Diabetes
Alternative treatment guide issued for osteoporosis during COVID-19
In a joint guidance document issued by the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, Endocrine Society, European Calcified...
Dietetics
Telehealth + COVID-19 adding new dimension to practice management*
Telehealth is a focus at present, given the surge of COVID-19 – a focus that has served to update and expand regulations around telehealth...
Emergency Medicine
More volunteers needed for COVID-19 Doctors on Call Programme
The Covid-19 Doctors on Call oversight committee is appealing to all South African registered doctors to consider voluntary participation in the Covid-19 Doctors on...
Gastroenterology
Telemedicine benefitting doctors and patients*
Telemedicine – the practice of caring for patients remotely when the provider and patient are not physically in the same room – has been...
General Practice
Telemedicine benefitting doctors and patients*
Telemedicine – the practice of caring for patients remotely when the provider and patient are not physically in the same room – has been...
Gynaecology
Telemedicine benefitting doctors and patients*
Telemedicine – the practice of caring for patients remotely when the provider and patient are not physically in the same room – has been...
HIV
Telehealth + COVID-19 adding new dimension to practice management*
Telehealth is a focus at present, given the surge of COVID-19 – a focus that has served to update and expand regulations around telehealth...
Hospital
Pandemic brings out interesting hospital admission trends
There has been a proliferation of models which predict hospital admission rates when the Covid-19 infection rate accelerates, but there has been very little...
Imaging
Neuroimaging features of COVID-19 variable
Neuroimaging features of COVID-19, the authors of a research letter published online in Radiology have noted, are variable among patients with acute neurological symptoms but...
Nephrology
Telemedicine benefitting doctors and patients*
Telemedicine – the practice of caring for patients remotely when the provider and patient are not physically in the same room – has been...
Neurology
Neuroimaging features of COVID-19 variable
Neuroimaging features of COVID-19, the authors of a research letter published online in Radiology have noted, are variable among patients with acute neurological symptoms but...
Nurses
Alternative treatment guide issued for osteoporosis during COVID-19
In a joint guidance document issued by the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, Endocrine Society, European Calcified...
Oncology
More volunteers needed for COVID-19 Doctors on Call Programme
The Covid-19 Doctors on Call oversight committee is appealing to all South African registered doctors to consider voluntary participation in the Covid-19 Doctors on...
Ophthalmology
Occupational health ‘high risk’ for contracting virus
The occupational health environment during this COVID-19 challenge is most certainly stressful and high risk for contracting the disease, according to Far East Rand...
Optometry
Occupational health ‘high risk’ for contracting virus
The occupational health environment during this COVID-19 challenge is most certainly stressful and high risk for contracting the disease, according to Far East Rand...
Paediatrics
OPINION: Nationalising healthcare to save lives in SA, a disastrous consideration
In her article, “Spain did it, so why can’t South Africa nationalise healthcare to save lives?”*published in Mail & Guardian on 12 April, Nimi...
Pain and Anaesthesia
Alternative treatment guide issued for osteoporosis during COVID-19
In a joint guidance document issued by the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, Endocrine Society, European Calcified...
Pharmacy
October SA Heart Congress cancelled
The SA Heart
& PCR Congress 2020, scheduled to have taken place from 22 to 25 October at
the Sandton Convention Centre, has been cancelled.
“This
unfortunate decision...
Psychiatry
Telehealth + COVID-19 adding new dimension to practice management*
Telehealth is a focus at present, given the surge of COVID-19 – a focus that has served to update and expand regulations around telehealth...
Surgery
October SA Heart Congress cancelled
The SA Heart
& PCR Congress 2020, scheduled to have taken place from 22 to 25 October at
the Sandton Convention Centre, has been cancelled.
“This
unfortunate decision...
Urology
Telehealth + COVID-19 adding new dimension to practice management*
Telehealth is a focus at present, given the surge of COVID-19 – a focus that has served to update and expand regulations around telehealth...