TB revaccination plan on the cards for SA’s teenagers
Scientists consider revaccinating teenagers with BCG shot to see if they can get more mileage out of the jabMatsoso defends results of health facilities audit
Health director-general Precious Matsoso defends surprising findings of health facility audit commissioned by her department
State extends deadline for salt content compliance
Department of Health softens targets for sodium in processed food and gives industry time to comply with regulations
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UAE court finds Karabus not guilty
But Professor Cyril Karabus may not be immediately free to return to South Africa
Motsoaledi defends strict regulations
Health minister says preventative measures are essential to ensure department not burdened by the ramifications of society’s health and diet choices
New therapy offers hope to patients with high blood pressure
Therapy introduced in South Africa, known as renal denervation, is ‘very targeted intervention’
Sadc has less than 1,000 days to meet millennium goal on TB and HIV
Southern African Development Community health ministers, NGOs to meet in Swaziland ahead of Brics summit to discuss concerted action to fight epidemic
Karabus expected to be absolved
It is believed that a medical review committee’s report to an Abu Dhabi court will lead to the release of Prof Cyril Karabus
DA cries foul over Health Facility Audit
Party describes as nonsensical health director-general Precious Matsoso’s assertion to MPs that Gauteng’s hospitals and clinics got the best score for quality and infrastructures
- Department awards first health PhD scholarships
- Institute plans to ‘clean up’ healthcare waste sector
- Doubts in Soweto over NHI plans
- Government to tighten smoking laws further
- Food groups ‘can do more on nutrition’
- Minister mulls Russia training for SA doctors
- Women ‘not keen on HIV prevention methods’
- US research offers hope for babies with HIV
- Virgin Active not resting on its laurels in South Africa
- Section27 criticises Gauteng health turnaround plan
- NHI affordability depends on rate of future growth
- Money for HIV and TB, but NHI finance document still delayed
- Health to get extra to spend on TB diagnosis and HIV
- MPs question handling of National Health Insurance project
- South African medical students in Cuba may be deported
- Gauteng health department to ask SARS to probe overtime
- Government’s ARV programme ‘increasing life expectancy’
- Study bolsters case for efficacy, cost-effectiveness of antiretrovirals
- Baby’s HIV cure opens potential new treatment window
- Financing plans for NHI unlikely to be in Gordhan’s budget
- Department of Health seeks to standardise nursing training
- Workers’ sick fund ‘faces total collapse’
- Noninvasive cosmetic procedures ‘take off in South Africa’
- Value-for-money drug guide raises industry doubts
- Babies not protected by new TB vaccine, trials show
- Surgery may offer new hope to diabetics
- Durban’s hospital dilemma gains urgency
- Spending on social services will rise by 7.8%
- State has soured our relationship with communities, say doctors and nurses
- New academy ‘must set benchmark for healthcare management in SA’
- MP’s mediation in medical-aid case was ‘naive’
- Plans for public hospitals raising eyebrows
- MPs respond to plea on mental-patient workload
- Doctors frustrated by water shortages in Nelspruit hospital
- NHI project to focus on healthcare for pupils
- Cape health boss warns on hospital takeovers
- Province health vacancies for doctors, nurses ‘shocking’
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