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Healthcare

Why is it so difficult to make a new antibiotic?

Alistair Farley and Helen Smith 22 Apr 2025

Pharmaceuticals

Pharma giants push back against Trump's planned tariff rollout

2 Apr 2025

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Trends

#BizTrends2025: What does IP law look like in 2025 and beyond?

Alicia van der Walt, Tshireletso Tlholoe, and Marcelle Samons 28 Jan 2025

Pharma’s opportunities to improve access to medicines in LMICs highlight key areas for action

Pharmaceuticals

Pharma’s opportunities to improve access to medicines in LMICs highlight key areas for action

Issued by Access to Medicine Foundation 20 Nov 2024

Pharmaceuticals

African drug supply chain gets smarter with IBM-powered AI platform

14 Nov 2024

Public Health

Rwanda to start vaccine trials for Marburg disease in a few weeks

Philbert Girinema 4 Oct 2024

Legal and regulatory insights into South Africa’s growing medical cannabis market

Ethics & Medicolegal

Legal and regulatory insights into South Africa’s growing medical cannabis market

Issued by Bassani Medical 2 Oct 2024

Source: Supplied.

Pharmaceuticals

Tahaluf launches CPHI Middle East as region’s premier pharma event

25 Sep 2024

Pharma’s reach for underserved patients

Public Health

Pharma’s reach for underserved patients

Issued by Access to Medicine Foundation 16 Sep 2024

Introducing Pharma TV: Revolutionising retail media in independent pharmacies

OOH

Introducing Pharma TV: Revolutionising retail media in independent pharmacies

Issued by Provantage 3 Sep 2024

Partner with Enterprises UP for success in clinical trials

Specialties

Partner with Enterprises UP for success in clinical trials

Issued by Enterprises University of Pretoria 27 Aug 2024

Source: Supplied. Wendy Cupido, vice president at the Innovative Pharmaceutical Association of South Africa (Ipasa) and general manager at Roche South Africa.

Healthcare

Unlocking potential: Why women leaders are essential for advancing global health

8 Aug 2024

Source: Supplied.

Healthcare

4 ways Medic East Africa is turning the tide on regional health challenges

12 Jul 2024

Polymer innovator helps to transform world of medicine

Medical Research

Polymer innovator helps to transform world of medicine

Issued by Stellenbosch University 21 May 2024

Source: Supplied.

Healthcare

To tackle poverty, Africa needs welfarist policies and people-centred development - Adesina

4 Apr 2024

Source: Supplied. Sheraan Amod, founder and chief executive officer of RecoMed.

Medtech

Japanese pharma Eisai invests in RecoMed

6 Mar 2024

Source: © 123rf Ahmed El Hofy, general manager SA, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, examines how we navigate our work and personal spaces

Employee Wellness

#MentalHealth: How to navigate work and personal spaces

Ahmed El Hofy 24 Oct 2023

Source: Nobel Prize/Youtube

Covid-19

Nobel Prize for mRNA pioneers amid jab controversy

Katja Hamilton 6 Oct 2023

Covid-19

Pharma giants set SA vaccine price tag at $734m, confidential contracts reveal

Katja Hamilton 5 Sep 2023

Covid-19

SA Health Ministry hands over confidential Covid-19 vaccine contracts

Katja Hamilton 1 Sep 2023

Source: Reuters.

Pharmaceuticals

Aspen signs drug making deals to utilise idle capacity

Promit Mukherjee 31 Aug 2023

Covid-19

South African High Court orders release of secret vaccine contracts

Katja Hamilton 21 Aug 2023

Medtech

Sanofi fully embraces AI and data science for patient breakthroughs

20 Jun 2023

Source: Supplied. Andrew Miller, is the national treasurer at the Muscular Dystrophy Foundation of South Africa.

Medical Research

Genetic medicine divide: Why SA lags behind the rest of the world

Andrew Miller 30 May 2023

HIV/AIDS

#HIVToday: Licensing of anti-HIV jab ignites hope for millions in Africa

Katja Hamilton 26 May 2023

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

Indian labs to give 'top priority' to tests on cough syrup exports - regulator

25 May 2023

Twitter blue ticks: 5 ways to spot misinformation without verified accounts

Technology

Twitter blue ticks: 5 ways to spot misinformation without verified accounts

Mikey Biddlestone, Jon Roozenbeek, Sander van der Linden 26 Apr 2023

Marketers, we love what you're doing... now you can #DoMore on Biz

Marketing

Marketers, we love what you're doing... now you can #DoMore on Biz

Issued by Bizcommunity.com 21 Feb 2023

Source: Supplied.

Pharmaceuticals

Carbogen Amcis scales its production by opening facility in France

14 Feb 2023

Source: Pixabay.

Covid-19

African Development Bank unveils the African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation

23 Dec 2022

HIV/AIDS

HIV prevention: new injection could boost the fight, but some hurdles remain

Jessica Haberer 28 Nov 2022

Source: Shutterstock.

Medtech

Digital platforms can reduce critical medical errors

Dr Yaseen Khan 31 Oct 2022

Pharmaceuticals

Advocating for medication safety

Bada Pharasi 16 Sep 2022

#WomensMonth: Distell's Kushilla Thomas feeds her passions for Africa, brands and people

Retail Marketing

#WomensMonth: Distell's Kushilla Thomas feeds her passions for Africa, brands and people

Lauren Hartzenberg 31 Aug 2022

Nursing

Nursing shortage - government holds the trump card!

Teresa Basson 27 Sep 2022

Source: Supplied. Reuters. A healthcare worker administers the Pfizer coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccine to a man, amidst the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 variant Omicron, in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Covid-19

SA reports first death causally linked to Covid vaccine

Alexander Winning and Mark Potter 5 Aug 2022

Retail's role in advancing PMI's smoke-free strategy

Retailers

Retail's role in advancing PMI's smoke-free strategy

Lauren Hartzenberg 6 Jul 2022

Source: Supplied: Petro Terblanche, managing director of Afrigen,

Medical Research

#AfricaMonth: Injecting the continent - and the world - with hope

Katja Hamilton 20 May 2022

Russia-Ukraine war: Gift Of the Givers helps Ukrainians with food and medical supplies

CSI & Philanthropy

Russia-Ukraine war: Gift Of the Givers helps Ukrainians with food and medical supplies

15 Mar 2022

Covid-19

The HJI launches litigation for disclosure of SA's Covid-19 vaccine contracts

10 Mar 2022

Covid-19

Who's liable if the Covid vaccine goes wrong?

Katherine Graham 2 Feb 2022

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Labour Law

CCMA deems dismissal for refusing to be vaccinated 'fair'

Daniel van der Merwe 26 Jan 2022

Source: © HONGQI ZHANG

Advertising

How the pharmaceutical industry can win audience mindshare

Jennifer Perry & Stephen Troncos 24 Jan 2022

Source: Premier Alan Winde. The interior of the new NantSA vaccine plant opened in Cape Town at the same time as the launch of the AAAH coalition .

Healthcare

Cape Town unveils Africa's Access to Advanced Healthcare coalition

24 Jan 2022

Covid-19

Africa: the face of vaccine inequity

Katja Hamilton 19 Jan 2022

Source: Supplied. Basa Pharasi, CEO of IPASA

Trends

#BizTrends2022: Pharma - innovating in medicine and boosting the economy

Bada Pharasi 5 Jan 2022