The last scuffle over the Medicines and Related Substances Act saw the health department announce a Âcomplex four-tier dispensing fee for pharmacists. This was intended to…
In the soap opera of the new transparent medicine pricing system, the latest unforeseen twist is the Pharmacy Council’s list of extra items for which pharmacists can charge over…
The health care industry is increasingly coming under the beady eye of the Competition Commission and Competition Tribunal. The Council for Medical Schemes recently referred a…
In the dying days of apartheid, FW de Klerk called his health minister, Rina Venter, and proposed the abolition of apartheid in state hospitals. During her subsequent…
A question put to me by a radio talk-show host last week suggested that the government’s publication of regulations to keep down medicine prices was an election ploy intended to…
Afrox Healthcare CEO Michael Flemming minced no words in telling shareholders how the company derived its growing profits in the year to end-September. Medical inflation, he told…
One of the biggest problems facing SA is the never-ending spiral of health-care costs. Despite measures, prices continue to rise. The latest intervention sees price-setting…
Employers do not fully understand the minefield of employee health-care benefits — and have even less of a grasp when it comes to HIV/Aids.
According to the TED, there are three high schools and nine primary schools in the Transvaal which still bar access by race.
The South African Catholic Bishops Conference believes priests don’t belong in politics but Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa is ready to defy this order.
Local production of the life-saving polio vaccine has been stopped following a WHO report criticising the Institute for Virology’s facilities.
This week a large group of Afrikaans rightwingers forced ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela to abandon his address to a student meeting at Tukkies.
?Helene Passtoors flew into Brussels yesterday hours after her release from Pretoria Central.
A fact-finding delegation of Liberal International Parliamentarians has asked permission for a second time to visit imprisoned ANC leader Mandela.
South African tampon manufacturers say they do not use the fibre believed to cause toxic shock syndrome.
So why did the Government dump the farmers?
