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...
COVID-19: special guidelines reminder for medical practice
The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) has recognised the severity of the COVID-19 outbreak and has provided special guidelines that apply during...
PPE plus infection control training lowers COVID-19 risk among healthcare workers
Healthcare workers carry a significant burden of coronavirus infections worldwide, but a new evidence review by researchers at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)...
GPs’ expertise, contacts critical to COVID-19 response
General
practitioners have an incredibly important role to play in meeting many of the health
care requirements now demanded by the coronavirus pandemic, not least in...
DA submit PAIA applications to compel provinces to release detailed COVID-19...
The Democratic Alliance (DA) provincial spokespersons on the health portfolio will be submitting Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) applications to the provincial...
Virtual seminar: Impact of COVID-19 on Medical Schemes and Private Hospitals
The Institute of Health Risk Managers (IHRM) will be presenting a free virtual seminar on the impact of COVID-19 on private hospitals and medical...
Rheumatoid arthritis patients remain unaware of CV risk
Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have low awareness about associated cardiovascular (CV) risk, the authors of a study report published online in ACR Open Rheumatology...
All encouraged to complete WHO COVID-19 survey*
African Health Business (AHB) has given notice that deadline for response to the World Health Organisation (WHO) survey in response to COVID-19 is now...
All encouraged to complete WHO COVID-19 survey*
African Health Business (AHB), in a call for all health professionals and groups on the African continent to participate, has given notice that deadline...
Face mask distributor to pay R11m for inflating prices
Face mask distributor MATUS has agreed to pay a penalty of R5.9m and R5m to the COVID-19 Solidarity Fund after an investigation by the...
Surgeons help create new process for disinfecting and reusing N95 masks
Journal of the American College of Surgeons study authors report a framework to address supply limitations and enhance safety of healthcare workers by returning...
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...
Wits publishes first clinical data on COVID-19 in SA
The University of the Witwatersrand has published a special journal containing the first clinical data on COVID-19 published in South Africa.
Compiled by the Editor-in-chief...
Titanium Awards deadline extended, reduced to two categories
Convenors of the 6th Annual Titanium Awards have announced that the deadline has been extended to 31 July 2020 and instead of the original...
Adcock Ingram shuts down manufacturing plant after employee tested positive for...
Adcock Ingram Critical Care has confirmed that an employee at its Aeroton manufacturing facility in Johannesburg has tested positive for COVID-19 and that the...
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...
OPINION: A call for strengthened private and public healthcare systems in...
Never let a good crisis go to waste. That's what we are seeing in a time of the coronavirus crisis. Governments the world over...