Treating mental health helps economy
World Health Organisation study adds weight to calls for increased funding for mental health programmesTax a sweet start to fighting diabetes
Price and tax measures are a central part of comprehensive policies that create environments that make it easy for people to make healthy choices, writes Sarah Barber
Foundation to fund study of a new way to detect TB
In the two-year study, researchers will test swabs of the mouths of 245 adults and 100 children, instead of samples of their phlegm
Scientists warn that Zika is ‘scarier than previously thought’
US health officials have urged Congress to unblock funding to fight the mosquito-borne virus linked to birth defects
Compensation system ‘needs overhaul’
Health minister calls for urgent reform of dysfunctional compensation system that makes injured workers wait years for financial aid
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- Finance commission seeks clarity on NHI fiscal effects across government levels
- Radiologists sue over Compensation Fund delays
- Medical schemes’ funding for mental health is hugely inadequate
- De Aar makes headway in prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
- A good dose of healthcare reality
- Scientists make important breakthrough in Zika research
- WHO seeks tighter controls for China’s scandal-hit private vaccines industry
- Biosimilars offer the world massive cost-saving healthcare possibilities
- NEWS ANALYSIS: Inquiry hears of huge gaps in healthcare regulation
- Global health activists lobby UN panel in SA on medicine access
- Makers of insect spray in the US target Zika virus
- Mbeki’s poor judgment left more than just a death legacy
- How to explain former president’s denialism
- Hospital watchdog lacks power to enforce standards
- Mbeki queries money spent treating HIV/AIDS
- Adult psychiatric patients could be moved to home for disabled children
- In the ancient war between humans and mosquitoes, the pests are winning
- Hospitals pressed on quality of care
- Inquiry quizzes licensing of private hospitals
- Mbeki is correct about HIV/Aids, say two local Aids dissidents
- Mbeki rekindles AIDS denialism debacle in letter
- Pharma firms scramble to develop Zika virus vaccine
- Discovery scheme quizzed on fees paid to its administrator
- Health inquiry puts Discovery on the spot
- SA faces a severe lack of anaesthesiologists as training stalls
- Benefits decision a boon for medical scheme members
- Admin jobs surge in public healthcare
- Inquiry grills BHF at hearings over conflicts of interest
- ‘Elite workers’ myth needs tidying
- Weaker rand takes its toll on cost of Mandela’s hospital
- WHO says Ebola international health emergency is over
- SUGAR TAX: Deterrent likely to be met by bitter opposition
- NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE: Details on NHI expected shortly
- Cardiologist takes aim at vested interests over patient health
- Promising new HIV prevention tool gives women greater control
- Prescribed minimum benefits first on agenda at private health inquiry
- Hostile medical schemes mean doctors must fight for patients, cardiologist says
- Expensive private healthcare highlighted at inquiry
- Medical schemes ‘pick and choose diseases to cover’
- Why take advice on obesity from the fattest nation in the world, asks Noakes
- Motsoaledi does not want NHI to limit choices
- Health professionals council snubs doctors
- Department aims to launch new health products watchdog next year
- Currency dip set to afflict price of state medicines
- Extra price hike on cards for medicine
- Motsoaledi’s prescription for health is incoherent
- State has plan to trim obesity by 10%
- DA says reported shortage of HIV/Aids drug in Gauteng ‘inexcusable’
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