The Gauteng health department its breaking its ties with the largest and oldest hospital public/private partnership because it can no longer afford the cost of treatment. Read more >
The number of doctors working in public health in the Free State has plunged from 716 in 2014 to just 539 this year - an unprecedented loss of 177. The province has also lost 28 medical specialists over the past year. Read more >
An AIDS vaccine trial that will infuse people with antibodies known to neutralise 85 percent of HIV strains will begin in southern Africa, the US and South America within months. Read more >
The Competition Commission has extended the timetable for its private healthcare market inquiry, and now plans to start public hearings on February 1, almost a year after they were originally slated to get underway. Read more >
Despite London-listed healthcare group Al Noor's board recommendation to shareholders to accept Mediclinic international's merger offer there is a potentially new bidder for the Dubai-based hospital operator. Read more >
The annual Health Systems Trust publication focuses heavily on changes in primary healthcare as part of the country's move towards National Health Insurance and the revitalisation of primary healthcare. Read more >
Nursing in crisis, with huge shortages, declining interest in the profession, lack of a caring ethos and an apparent disjuncture between nurses' needs and those of the communities they serve. Read more >
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has urged US regulators to determine how to bring lower-cost drugs to market more swiftly and combat anti-competitive practices in the pharmaceutical industry. Read more >
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