Gold mines face class action case
Lawyers acting for gold miners with silicosis will today (12 October) present their case in the South Gauteng High Court for why a class action case against gold mining companies should be allowed.
Kerry Cullinan
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Legacy of poisoned air and earth
As mineworkers with silicosis resort to court this week (12 Oct) for permission to launch a class action case against the gold mines that ruined their health, communities countrywide are also struggling with the effects of mining.
Bloated bureaucracy at HPCSA needs emergency surgery
The HPCSA is notorious for its inefficiency, but the Health Minister finally has an opportunity to reform this Byzantine monster
HPCSA shake-up imminent as inquiry report handed to Minister
A shake-up at the Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) is imminent, following a high-level inquiry into the troubled body.
Cape factory is a boost for malnourished kids
Cape Town factory - a joint venture between Norway and South Africa - is the first in the country to get Unicef-accreditation for the food it makes for malnourished children
Complexity of change slows NHI White Paper
‘Soon, soon’ – the complexity of radically transforming the health system underlies the snail’s pace of the National Health Insurance (NHI) White Paper’s development, but a lot is happening to improve the quality of public health in preparation for one universal health system. Kerry Cullinan reports for Health-e News.
Doctors condemn assisted suicide
The Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) is appealing against a recent court decision giving a terminally ill man the right to get a doctor to help him to die.
PMB change: ‘Specialists over-charging medical schemes’
Health specialists routinely charge more for treatments that medical schemes are compelled by law to provide to members – called prescribed minimum benefits (PMB).
Private healthcare is ‘wasteful’
Private healthcare is wasteful and over-dependent on hospitals, which makes it too expensive for a large group of working people to join medical schemes.
Paying people to prevent HIV?
Public interventions that pay people to adopt healthy habits have become increasingly popular over the past decade. Apparently, us humans are so slack that we need to be paid to do simple things that are good for us.
‘AIDS changed everything’
The global goal of getting 15 million people on life-saving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment has been met nine months early, the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) announced today.
Climate change to wipe out health gains
Climate change could wipe out all the health gains made in the last 50 years and urgent steps need to be taken to prevent further increases in global temperature.