TV watching linked with potentially fatal VTE
A study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology has found hat watching TV for four hours a day or more is associated with...
SAHPRA and USP sign MOU to improve regulatory oversight for health...
The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) to help expand the...
Protective gene variant against COVID-19 identified
An international metastudy led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet has identified a specific gene variant that protects against severe COVID-19 infection. The researchers managed...
Covid deaths in SA halved in fourth wave
The Covid-19 infection rate during the fourth wave was as high as previous waves, however there were significantly fewer deaths and a smaller proportion...
Historic first successful transplant of pig heart into human with terminal...
In a first-of-its-kind surgery, a 57-year-old patient with terminal heart disease received a successful transplant of a genetically modified pig heart and is still...
Big Pharma ‘unsung contributor’ to country’s prosperity
The year 2021 was a seminal year for the pharmaceutical industry. Its responses to one of the greatest challenges of our times, the COVID-19...
Easy vehicle procurement for HCP’s in 2022 with MediWheels
Welcome to MediWheels! Best wishes for a sterling 2022!It is with humbleness and gratitude that we launch MediWheels, our brand-new vehicle procurement platform dedicated...
Breakthrough infections plus vaccination generate ‘super immunity’ to COVID-19
Breakthrough infections greatly enhance immune response to variants of the virus that causes COVID-19, according to a newly published study from Oregon Health &...
JnJ booster shown to be 85% effective against Covid-19 hospitalisation in...
Preliminary results from the Phase 3b Sisonke study in South African healthcare workers show that a homologous booster shot of the Johnson & Johnson...
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Pple Healthcare: Supplementing scarce healthcare skills*
The South African healthcare industry has been suffering from an acute healthcare skills shortage for far too long. Healthcare practitioners have made it their...
Journal slams ‘incompetent’ Facebook fact-checking over vaccine article
Editors at The BMJ have released an urgent request to Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and parent company Meta regarding a recent "fact-check" on the medical trade journal's...
COVID-19 vaccination more likely with provider recommendation
Adults who receive a provider recommendation for COVID-19 vaccination are more likely to have received one or more doses of COVID-19 vaccine, research published...
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British PM’s take on Omicron ‘alarmist’: SAMA chair
British prime minister Boris Johnston’s take on the Omicron variant is ‘alarmist’, SA Medical Association chair, Dr Angelique Coetzee, told British TV Sky News...
Risk of infection higher, hospitalisation lower for those vaccinated: Omicron insights...
The two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination, it was confirmed in a Discovery-led media briefing today when releasing collaborative insights into the Omicron variant, provides 70% protection...
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Early hospital trends indicate that Covid-19’s 4th wave is less severe
Netcare CEO, Dr Richard Friedland says that
after more than three weeks following the discovery of the new Omicron variant
in South Africa, data across its...