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January 2015 News Archive


Invitation to bid > 

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GEMS member-centric call centre >

To enhance your interaction with GEMS, the GEMS Call Centre framework has been simplified by clustering services to help you reach your enquiry destination quicker and easier. Read more>

Fulfilling a need >

Shares in recently listed day hospitals specialist Advanced Healthcare have enjoyed a robust recovery after it detailed expansion plans locally and abroad. The shares, listed at 100c in April this year, have surged over 30 percent to 197c in the past two weeks as the market reassessed its prospects for establishing a footprint in the affordable healthcare niche. Read more>

Clinical drug trials: Tests of progress >

Walk into the gloomy lobby of Groote Schuur Hospital's "old main" building and you could be forgiven for thinking you were entering a municipal bureaucracy, rather than the home of a cutting-edge research facility for experimental medicines. Read more>

Obesity, South Africa's emerging health crisis >

At lunchtime outside South Africa's biggest shopping mall, hungry workmen in hard hats pour out of a building site to buy cheap loaves of bread and jumbo bottles of fizzy drinks. They are joined by middle-class office workers, forming long queues at fast-food restaurants to stack trays with fried chicken, pizza or local delicacies such as bunny chow. Read more>

By the numbers: National Health Insurance in Mpumalanga >

It has been two years since Mpumalanga started its National Health Insurance (NHI) pilot site. Now the provincial department of health lays out progress in the pilot district. In August, Health-e News reported that Mpumalanga's National Health Insurance (NHI) pilot district showed signs of collapse. Read more>

Green light for Alpha Pharm merger >

The Competition Commission has approved the merger of the Alpha Pharm group of regional pharmaceutical distributors into a single national company, Alpha Pharm. Read more>

Halving of malaria deaths 'tremendous achievement' >

Global efforts have halved the number of people dying from malaria - a tremendous achievement, the World Health Organization says. Read more>

SA healthcare workers to join Ebola fight >

South African doctors and nurses are being recruited to work in Sierra Leone as part of the government's response to the Ebola outbreak there, according to the non-profit organisation Right to Care. Read more>

Overweight South Africans at higher risk of cancer >

Emerging evidence indicates that being overweight increases the risk of cancer and decreases the chance of surviving it. Read more>

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