Health Market Inquiry report postponed again!
The eagerly-awaited release of the Competition Commission’s
Health Market Inquiry’s Provisional Findings and Recommendations Report has
been postponed again. The release of the report was initially...
Health Market Inquiry report postponed again!
The eagerly-awaited release of the Competition Commission’s
Health Market Inquiry’s Provisional Findings and Recommendations Report has
been postponed again. The release of the report was initially...
Seminar to unpack recently approved Medical Schemes Amendment Bill
The Medical Schemes Amendment Bill, the subject of
considerable debate mainly in terms of its proposed alignment to National
Health Insurance (NHI) and the associated role,...
SASCRO Census: relative shortage of practising oncologists countrywide
Among the more significant challenges facing the country’s oncology services at present is the “progressive decrease” in specialist radiation oncologists in the academic/state sector,...
Are the proposed medical schemes amendments likely to benefit members?
In the wake of reports about Health
Minister Aaron Motsoaledi’s proposals for ushering in a new set of rules for
how medical schemes operate, how are...
Blood type determines severity of E.coli diarrhoea
A new study shows that a kind of E. coli most associated with "travellers' diarrhoea" as well as children in underdeveloped areas of the world, causes...
Ultrasound reveals thickened bowel walls in ulcerative colitis flares
The vast majority of patients with ulcerative colitis who experience clinical flares show thickening of the bowel wall on ultrasound, researchers in Germany have...
Guideline recommends exercise for cancer patients
Exercise should now be a part of the standard of care in treating all patients with cancer, according to a new position statement from...
Managed safely, digital recordings of doctors’ visits could transform healthcare
While data privacy has been a much-talked about topic lately
- with questions still lingering about how giants like Facebook and Google are
sharing our personal...
Ginger could prevent vomiting in children and save lives
In a new study, ginger was found to reduce the severity and
duration of vomiting in children with acute gastroenteritis. The results could
have numerous health...
Malnourished HF patients face significant mortality risk
It may be important to consider the potential prognostic value of malnutrition in heart failure, researchers have suggested.
Heart failure patients at a community heart...
July 2018: 39th Annual Medical Congress
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HES-containing products
Dear Healthcare Professional,BackgroundThe European Medical Agency’s (EMA) Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) has recommended the suspension of the marketing authorisations for hydroxyethyl-starch (HES) solutions...
Watch your language in medical reports: it may impact on the...
Researchers at Johns Hopkins has found that physicians who
use stigmatising language in their patients’ medical records may affect the
care those patients get for years...
Study supports ICU care for patients with liver failure
Patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure admitted to the ICU had clinical outcomes comparable to patients in the ICU without chronic liver disease and similar...
‘Value fee contracts’ – a solution to address global fee concerns?
There is some controversy about alternative
reimbursement models in the commercial healthcare industry. Global fees
contracts - where a single payment is made to a healthcare...
Gut microbiome found to play an important role in atherosclerosis
Researchers at Western University and Lawson
Health Research Institute have shown a novel relationship between the
intestinal microbiome and atherosclerosis, one of the major causes of heart
attack and stroke. This...