Mon 28 November 2022: The Department of Health is working with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to conduct a feasibility study on the rollout of solar panels in critical areas in health facilities. According to a statement released by the department on Monday, the move is part of the energy mix to […]
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Mon 28 November 2022: France is facing a pharmacist shortage and is urgently seeking 15,000 new recruits, according to the head of the country’s pharmacy federation on Sunday. The alarm was sounded by Philippe Besset, president of the Fédération des Syndicats Pharmaceutiques de France (FSPF), France’s pharmacist union, who took to French radio Franceinfo to […]
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Sat 26 November 2022: The Control of the Tobacco and Electronic Delivery Systems Bill is a crucial cog in the journey to ensuring that health is indeed one’s wealth. Inherently each person is responsible for their health – however, the math it is not always that simple and the draft bill that is currently before […]
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Fri 25 November 2022: Measles vaccination coverage has steadily declined since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the new World Health Organisation (WHO) and United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports revealed. According to the joint publication, a record high of nearly 40 million children missed a measles vaccine dose, of which […]
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Thu 24 November 2022: According to a warning issued by UNICEF on Wednesday, cholera and malnutrition are killing youngsters in Haiti at an alarming rate, Anadolu Agency reported. Children make about 40% of confirmed cases of cholera in Haiti, or two out of every five patients. According to the UN agency, nine out of ten […]
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Fri 18 November 2022: After recent allegations of misuse and use by children, prominent members of Thailand’s civil society and political class seek more controls on access to and use of marijuana. Southeast Asia’s first nation to decriminalize the selling and use of marijuana was Thailand. Anutin Charnvirakul, the health minister who oversaw the law, […]
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Wed 16 November 2022: Amazon Clinic, a message-based virtual healthcare service that offers treatments in the United States for over 20 “common health conditions” such as allergies, dandruff, hair loss, birth control, erectile dysfunction, and acne, was launched on Tuesday. Customers will be able to access affordable virtual care alternatives when and where they need […]
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Mon 14 November 2022: SaliStick is a new pregnancy test kit created by an Israeli start-up that uses saliva to detect pregnancy. The kit was introduced in Israel and will be offered on international markets starting in 2023. Without the need for a blood or urine sample, the diagnostics breakthrough SaliStick test offers precise results […]
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Fri 11 November 2022: Limpopo has recorded 14 new laboratory-confirmed measles cases in the province’s two sub-districts between 8 and 9 November 2022, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) reported on Thursday. This brings the number of laboratory-confirmed measles outbreak to 35 infections. This comes after the NICD declared a measles outbreak after three […]
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Thu 10 November 2022: According to the most recent statistics provided Thursday by the National Health Service, a record 7.07 million patients in England were awaiting the start of treatment in September (NHS). The number of referral-to-treatment (RTI) patients awaiting treatment has reached its peak since records began in 2007. It reflects a huge backlog […]
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