 | SOUTH AFRICA  [Boris Dzhingarov] Doctors don't make house calls anymore; these days, the expectation is that if you need to see the doctor, you will travel to them...
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[Frank Graewe] Fat grafting has become a popular and versatile procedure in plastic surgery. Historically it is not entirely new, we find anecdotal reports and descriptions of fat transplantation as far back as the early 1900s... |
 | SOUTH AFRICA  [Jessica Tennant] On the opening day of Start JLM 2018, Saul Singer, co-author of Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle provided context into the local startup ecosystem, focusing on healthcare, the associated challenges and what he believes is the solution...
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| SOUTH AFRICA  [Jessica Tennant] The Embassy of Israel in South Africa recently announced Johannesburg-based entrepreneur Josh Lasker, founding partner of robotic nurse 'Abby' (formerly known as Healthinator) as the winner of the local Start Jerusalem Competition 2018...
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[Nicci Botha] Until now, African scientists working on genomics haven't had access to a local storage platform for the immense amount of data their research generates... |
 | SOUTH AFRICA  [Tom Jackson] Amref Health Africa has selected six African healthcare startups to join its Innovate for Life Fund Accelerator programme, which supports post-revenue entrepreneurs with innovative products tailored to improve primary healthcare...
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| SOUTH AFRICA  Health Minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi. Photo: South Africa Today |
[Nicci Botha] Despite the Life Esidimeni tragedy, non-existent oncology services, striking healthcare workers and a damning quality report... |
| SOUTH AFRICA  Wilma Liebenberg, CEO: Knowledge Objects Healthcare |
[Nicci Botha] Wilma Liebenberg, chief executive officer of Knowledge Objects Healthcare, says an initiative as immense as NHI needs appropriate technology and real-time risk management capabilities in order to succeed... |
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[Nicci Botha] An international study has confirmed that drinking alcohol and smoking during pregnancy is detrimental to the unborn baby. In fact, even more so than previously thought... |
| EGYPT  [Tom Jackson] Egyptian startup ElBalto has launched a mobile application that provides users with easy, reliable, timely and affordable online video consultations via a network of customer-rated and licensed doctors...
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| SOUTH AFRICA  [Nicci Botha] Although often neglected, the important role of recovery in an athletic training regimen is becoming increasingly recognised...
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[Nicci Botha] The OT profession needs to apply critical thinking to challenge taken-for-granted assumptions and advocate culturally relevant and inclusive occupational therapy theories... |
| SOUTH AFRICA  Sheraan Amod, founder of RecoMed |
[Nicci Botha] A health services online booking system developed by a local tech entrepreneur has got the thumbs up from Discovery for its inhouse wellness programme... |
| SOUTH AFRICA  [Nicci Botha] The quality and outcomes of the health service often boils down to getting the basics right, such as employing best practices in clinical procedures...
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[Frank Graewe] If we talk about trends in plastic surgery we have to talk about social media... |
| SOUTH AFRICA  Professor Kaymanthri Moodley, director, Centre for Medical Ethics & Law, Stellenbosch University. Photo: YouTube |
[Nicci Botha] At the turn of the century, and influenced by his distrust of Western medicine, then-president Thabo Mbeki lost the plot. amid much media coverage, he proclaimed that HIV didn't cause Aids... |
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[Nicci Botha] Here's an interesting factoid for you - 10:23 is the saturation point at which the original substance is so diluted that can no longer be detected in a solution.... |
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[Nicci Botha] We've all seen them. Those product ads promising hope in a bottle for guaranteed weight loss or some other miracle cure... |
| SOUTH AFRICA  [Frank Graewe] A team of pioneering surgeons from Stellenbosch University (SU) and Tygerberg Hospital in Belville performed the first successful penile transplant in the world in a marathon nine-hour operation...
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| SOUTH AFRICA  [Frank Graewe] Professor Frank Graewe teamed up with the World Craniofacial Foundation and Smile Foundation SA to help give normal lives to two African girls who suffered from serious skull defects...
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