The consulting giant was helping Purdue Pharma and Johnson & Johnson fend off FDA regulations even as it helped shape FDA drug policy.
South Africa opts to voluntarily suspend its vaccination programme following advice from US health authorities after a rare blood clot development.
Despite the long history of medical racism, any potential Covid-19 vaccines must be tested in Africa — but not only on the continent
What’s left unspoken: If you expect your healthcare provider to lay out your birth control options, you may be in for a long wait
Tropical diseases such as malaria could be wiped out as scientists figure out how to render mosquitoes sterile.
The US Food and Drug Administration approved the use of ultraviolet light for the liquid purification of fruit juice — a South African invention.
Parents have been warned not to give toddlers over-the-counter cough and cold remedies unless advised to do so by a healthcare professional.
This week Switzerland will become ground zero for the future of health policy in Africa. The World Health Organisation’s intergovernmental working group is meeting in Geneva to discuss public health, medical innovation and intellectual property. Many participants are expected to express their support for efforts to undermine patent protections for drugs.
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/ 22 January 2008
Researchers from the University of Cape Town have developed two test HIV vaccines — the first wholly South African-developed products to enter the human clinical-trials phase, the Herald Online reported on Tuesday. The vaccines are just months away from being assessed in human clinical trials, the report said.
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/ 14 November 2007
Nanotechnology has been hailed as the science of the future, with micro-particles already powering innovations that remove lines from faces, strengthen beer bottles and clean clothing without water. Yet early studies also indicate some of these particles, enabled by the latest in engineering science, can cause cancer.
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/ 6 November 2007
Physician-scientist Wilhelm Reich, best known for his claims of a cosmic life force associated with sexual orgasm, died in federal prison, and the United States government burned many of his books and other publications and destroyed his equipment. But now scientists and other believers are working to advance the psychiatrist’s work.