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- 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
- 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’
- Health scheme implies ruinous tax rise
- Microbes fox lax drug regimes
- SA rises two places in Human Development Index
- EDITORIAL: No remedy in NHI white paper
- Health costs dismissed as a thumbsuck
- NEWS ANALYSIS: A sketchy grand public health vision
- NHI could require additional tax revenue of R71.9bn
- NHI funding proposals keenly watched
- Health bills propose reforms to laboratory service
- Minister urged to offset medicine industry’s bitter pill
- SA follows US in giving green light for HIV drug
- Hopes for Chinese health deal
- New three-in-one pill launched for TB patients
- TB medication for children available, at last
- Health department has plan to prevent Zika virus from entering SA
- Anti-TB fight has big return on investment, says health minister
- Almost 16-million on HIV treatment as AIDS pandemic tide turns
- Expect surge in waterborne diseases‚ says Sama
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