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The plan to force some South African scientists to register with a professional body could protect people and the environment, but the current version lacks clarity, notes an editorial in the journal ...

The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health says that despite global supply-chain pressures having a huge impact on local essential medication stock, and resulting in shortages, every effort was being made ...

Documents from a case that was settled out of court, with a non-disclosure agreement, have revealed the toxic situation that developed at a practice at Medicross Randburg, where a doctor was thrown ...

With medical school places for South Africans notoriously being at a premium, an academic affiliation agreement clinched recently will create new pathways for local students wanting to study medicine, ...

Despite the chronic shortage of emergency services vehicles countrywide, 41 ambulances bought by the City of Johannesburg – for a total of R16m – have been sitting idle for six years, because of red ...

A multi-departmental parliamentary meeting is expected to be held over the precautionary suspension last week of Dr Stan Moloabi, principal officer of the Government Employees Medical Scheme (GEMS), ...

A warning has been issued to both staff and the public by the Gauteng Department of Health that anyone asking for money to help patients bypass scheduling processes will face strict action under ...

The Department of Health says continually plummeting vaccination rates have contributed to the rise in measles infections countrywide, with 3 462 laboratory-confirmed cases recorded since January this ...

Three patients died in Novartis trials of its CD19-directed CAR T treatment after a dangerous immune system response, and a similar therapy from Bristol Myers Squibb has also been put on hold to ...

The response to the Congo’s fast-spreading Ebola epidemic has been hampered by a severe lack of funding and pervasive misinformation, according to people on the front lines, with the outbreak on track ...