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Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline LLC (GSK) agreed to plead guilty and to pay $3 billion to resolve its criminal and civil liability arising from the company’s unlawful promotion of certain prescription drugs, its failure to report certain safety data, and its civil liability for alleged false price reporting practices, the US Justice Department announced. Read the full US Justice Department statement here
SEATTLE – This week 65 international innovators are competing for significant funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
CAPE TOWN – The world needs more doctors, nurses and other health care workers – 3.5 million of them, to be exact.
CAPE TOWN – It is not how much money countries spend on health, but how they spend it, which improves people’s lives.
CAPE TOWN – Health and education budgets are cut in times of financial crises despite the fact that the opposite should be happening, according to South African health department Director-General Precious Matsoso.
Most medical problems can be controlled through early detection and treatment. Looking after your health means going for regular screening tests, even when you feel fine.
The evidence that voluntary medical male circumcision reduces the risk of a heterosexual man contracting HIV in high prevalence areas is beyond reasonable doubt.
Scientists have pinpointed an invaluable indicator of men’s health: the penis.
CAPE TOWN ‘ Health minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi is gearing up for several court battles as he aims to regulate certain aspects of the food and other private sector industries driving poor health.
CAPE TOWN – There is going to be a ‘serious fight to get what we want in our health system’ and while the National Health Insurance (NHI) Green Paper was steering matters in the right direction health care delivery can’t go from ‘horrible to wonderful’ overnight, health economist Professor Di McIntyre cautioned.
CAPE TOWN – South Africa needs to urgently look to countries such as Rwanda, Thailand and Brazil, where they have employed community health workers (CHWs) to deliver a range of primary health care services that dramatically reduced mortality, public health expert Professor David Sanders told the National Health Assembly (NHA).
CAPE TOWN ‘ Health and social justice activists as well as health ministers and key policy makers from across the world will meet in Cape Town this week to address the drivers of inequity which fundamentally impact on the health of the poor.