New medicine authority announces plans to clear inherited backlog

Regulatory body was confident of clearing applications of new medicines licensing within two years.
Regulatory body was confident of clearing applications of new medicines licensing within two years.
Unbearable working conditions for abortion service providers at clinics have led to many leaving - will new guidelines on termination of pregnancy services change this?
Women bear the brunt of inadequate policies, which are great on paper but lacklustre in terms of implementation in public clinics and hospitals.
Activists want a multinational pharmaceutical company to lower the overinflated price of ground-breaking TB drug.
People with a higher risk of contracting HIV still lag behind in staying on treatment and in the system.
Inspirational keynote speaker at the 2019 SA AIDS Conference sheds light on her journey to self-discovery growing up in a village in KZN.
Thirteen-year-old Ruan Malan was born a healthy boy in 2006 - or so his parents thought. His mother, Julia, remembers the family’s joy when they took their baby boy home from the hospital after three days; he was just like any normal newborn.
Nicolyn Mohale (45) was called to a home in a Limpopo village to attend to an emergency in the middle of the night.
Nurses’ failure to follow guidelines and poor monitoring of patients is an increasing liability at private hospitals.
The tobacco industry is spending vast sums of money to fight government’s attempts to tighten smoking laws and regulate electronic cigarettes – and it has managed to recruit some unlikely allies.
Tobacco and electronic cigarette manufacturers have launched an aggressive campaign against government’s proposed legislation to clamp down on their products.
Ignorant and not based on scientific evidence. This is how vaping activists describe the latest bill on tobacco, which they say is based on fear of the unknown.