South Africa spends too much money on medical malpractice lawsuits and wants to pursue new ways to settle cases out of court
Mauritius has an array of sponge species, offering the opportunity to discover bioactive agents
WHO red list fails to prevent rich countries from poaching healthcare workers from countries where those workers are in short supply
Artificial intelligence can predict disease before it emerges, and the rich and poor should have access to such medical advances
Drug trials to test a new HIV prevention method was trialled in South Africa but now the country won’t be able to afford to buy it for the people who need it most. Here’s how to…
Jane Kubai ran away from home to avoid FGM. She then worked day and night to obtain a qualification. Now, her father advises other families against child marriage
Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya among 27 countries yet to sign the treaty for the establishment of the African Medicines Agency.
Dr Zolelwa Sifumba went from being a frontline healthcare worker to stepping back from clinical work. She speaks to Elna Schütz about her shift into more open spaces
Only 18 countries are using dexamethasone, while tocilizumab and sarilumab can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars a dose
You can start palliative care at any stage of a serious illness, even as soon as you receive a diagnosis or start treatment, says Dr Linda Holding
Twenty pharmacies in KZN have been looted and damaged, while one was burned down and several others closed their doors as a precaution
Selling medication without a license to prescribe or dispense it is illegal, and can lead to a hefty fine or imprisonment
Professor Salim Abdool Karim talks to Nicolene de Wee about his responsibility as head of the ministerial advisory committee tasked with guiding the government’s response to the…
Medical science has developed hugely powerful technologies that can be used for social purposes. But to achieve this, it needs to be clearly on the side of the people
We dedicate a lot more time and money to military defence than we do on health responses to deadly pathogens
An outbreak of a new coronavirus that began in the Chinese city of Wuhan has already infected over 4000 people – mostly in China, but also in several other countries, from…
The university is launching four transdisciplinary initiatives to harness knowledge in the 4IR era
The aim is to improve access to quality, safe and efficacious medical products
Most biobanks, whether small or large, have high quality assurance and control measures in place
Provincial medicine shortages may be just the beginning.
