3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (578+ words) Kamohelo Chauke asks why Section27 has represented Tlaleng Mofokeng, an accomplished doctor and, until July, UN special rapporteur on health, in her defence against a complaint made to the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) (“Section27’s troubling choice in representing…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (604+ words) Health & Science Correspondent Stats SA has defended the integrity of its population estimates, which the health department said earlier this week may have skewed its estimates of childhood vaccination coverage. Public health experts in multiple provinces have questioned the crisis…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (845+ words) Health & Science Correspondent The health department has conceded that the precipitous decline in childhood vaccination rates it recently published may have been skewed by potentially inaccurate population figures provided by Stats SA. The issue goes to the heart of concerns…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (358+ words) Health & Science Correspondent Portuguese pharmaceutical group FHC will use its recent acquisition of Activo Health from JSE-listed Afrocentric to strengthen its presence in Africa, starting with a push into sterile injectables, senior executives said on Monday. FHC is a privately…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (464+ words) Would switching to diet foods and drinks help me get over the weight loss line ahead of December? I’ve been doing my exercise but I feel there’s not enough change. This question opens little portals to memories dotting my life....

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (594+ words) Health & Science Correspondent South Africa’s biggest pharmaceutical manufacturer, Aspen Pharmacare, has pulled out of government plans for local production of Gilead Sciences’ HIV prevention shot lenacapavir, citing a lack of guaranteed demand, and is instead targeting Merck’s experimental pill, alimatravir....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (484+ words) Schools reopened this week in parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) hardest hit by Ebola after authorities decided the risk of transmission was outweighed by the risk of pupils struggling with remote learning, an official told Reuters…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (911+ words) In May I argued in these pages that the National Health Insurance (NHI) Act’s real weakness is not its ambitions and intentions but its architecture. That its financing had been deferred rather than designed. Nearly four months on, I want…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (661+ words) Health & Science Correspondent Lindiwe Mqatazana is not taking any chances with her health, or with that of her unborn child. “There’s a lot of guys who won’t tell you they are HIV positive. So I have to protect myself,” says…...