Hospital manager Billa assumes HPCSA registrar role
Bara, Helen Joseph among management positions
Link found between deep forehead wrinkles and higher risk for CVD...
Assessing brow wrinkles could be an easy, low-cost way to identify people in a high-risk category for CVD, according to research presented at the 2018 European Society for Cardiology Congress
SASA publishes revised 2018 practice guidelines
The South African Society of Anaesthesiologists has
published an extensive review of its practice guidelines in response to
changing demands of the healthcare system and anaesthesia...
Breastfeeding rates increase when newborn baths are delayed
While it has been standard practice for decades to whisk
newborns off to a bath within the first few hours of their birth, a new
Cleveland...
AIDS 2018: Undetectable viral load equals zero transmission, PARTNER 2...
The chance of any HIV-positive person with an undetectable
viral load transmitting the virus to a sexual partner is scientifically
equivalent to zero, researchers confirmed at...
Should patients call doctors by their first names?*
For some this is OK but for others, a problem…
CPD points now available on online medical CME platform
South African health professionals will now be able to earn
their CPD points by watching medical lectures online. Medtalkz, SA’s new open
access library of medical...
GP stalwart Dr de Meulenaere wins inaugural ASAIPA National Medical Award...
Prominent Pretoria GP recognised for five decades of significant service to medical practice and industry
Prof Ken Boffard awarded Netcare’s highest honour
World-renowned South African trauma surgeon
Prof Ken Boffard whose contributions to life-saving surgical practice and
academia are acknowledged the world over, has been awarded Netcare’s highest
honour,...
Netcare starts with hospital staff retrenchment process
Netcare has confirmed that the company has issued a Section
189 notice relating to the possible retrenchment of staff members and that it
will be embarking...
Eight pharma companies to share state’s R18.3bn ARV tender
Government has awarded its R18.3bn tender for the provision
of antiretroviral (ARVs) drugs to eight pharmaceutical companies with varying
degrees of local manufacturing capacity. According to...
Transforming private practice in SA with a multidisciplinary healthcare model
In response to a worsening affordability
crisis in medical aid in South Africa, a clinician-owned company in Alberton,
Gauteng, has been transforming the way private medical...
Immunotherapy doubles survival rates for patients with melanoma brain metastases
Checkpoint blockage immunotherapies significantly improve
the survival of patients with melanoma brain metastases, according to a new
study. Data from > 1500 cancer programmes across the...
KZN’s Dr Zweli Mkhize new Minister of Health
State
President Cyril Ramaphosa has just announced that Dr Zweli Mkhize, former Minister of Cooperative Governance and
Traditional Affairs, succeeds Dr Aaron Motsoaledi as South Africa’s...
SAHPRA warns about quinolone/fluoroquinolone antibiotics
The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority
(SAHPRA) has issued new safety information on the use of the oral, injectable
and inhalation quinolone/fluoroquinolone antibiotics following a...
Corneal infection from sleeping in contacts detailed
Six patients reported sleeping in lenses on regular basis; most had vision loss, permanent damage
Boehringer’s diabetes drug declared 2018’s Best International Product
Boehringer Ingelheim’s sodium-glucose co-transporter 2
(SGLT-2) inhibitor, JardianceÒ (empagliflozin),
has been announced winner of the 2018 Prix Galien International Award in the
category “Best Pharmaceutical Product”.
The Prix Galien...
SA neurosurgeon offers new alternative to open spinal surgery
Life Fourways Hospital is pioneering a
minimally invasive/percutaneous surgical procedure that offers a welcome
alternative to sufferers of herniated (slipped) discs who would otherwise be
facing potential...