Posts Tagged ‘Ethics’

Earlier this week, a woman with severe aortic valve stenosis was operated on successfully at Groote Schuur Hospital by Jacques Scherman, […]

Earlier this year the Cancer Research Initiative (CRI) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) celebrated its fifth anniversary. The aim of […]

The Africa Health Exhibition took place at Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand, half way between Johannesburg and Pretoria over the past three […]

The title for this week’s blog – courage and innovation – was the theme for a conference held at Groote Schuur Hospital […]

After much discussion and debate, the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year for 2016 was post-truth, an adjective defined as “relating to […]

For the past three days, the Africa Health Exhibition and Congress took place at the Gallagher Convention Centre at Midrand, half way […]

Last month we reported that Swiss pharmaceutical manufacturer Roche, which owns the patent for the breast cancer drug Herceptin, had set the […]

Much of the news emanating from South Korea recently has been decidedly negative. The country’s parliament voted to impeach President […]

New Zealand and the United States are the only two countries in the world that permit the advertising of prescription […]

Susan Bewley There is currently a debate raging in the United Kingdom, highlighted in the correspondence section of this week’s British Medical […]