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Finance

Old Mutual issues R14bn in long-term insurance payouts

12 Jul 2024

Corporate wellness – A win-win for all

Healthcare

Corporate wellness – A win-win for all

Issued by Bonitas 10 Jul 2024

Tackling women’s health holistically

Healthcare

Tackling women’s health holistically

Issued by Bonitas 7 Jun 2024

Source: Supplied. The Ministry of Health of Ghana signing an MoU with AstraZeneca. Franklin Asiedu Bekoe, director public health, Ghana Health Service; Winfred Ofosu, Ghana Health Service; Deepak Arora, country president, African Cluster, AstraZeneca, and Ruud Dobber, executive vice president, BioPharmaceuticals Business Unit, AstraZeneca.

Healthcare

Growth of AstraZeneca’s flagship health equity programme

3 Jun 2024

Healthcare

SA's consumers get as-you-go private healthcare app to fit their busy lifestyles

17 Apr 2024

Healthcare

Africa Health 2024 relocates to Cape Town, spotlighting healthcare financing

15 Apr 2024

Healthcare

#BudgetSpeech2024: Heala condemns Finance Minister's failure to increase Health Promotion Levy

22 Feb 2024

10 ways to manage your medical expenses

Healthcare

10 ways to manage your medical expenses

Issued by Bonitas 9 Feb 2024

Stay on track with your healthy habits

Lifestyle

Stay on track with your healthy habits

16 Jan 2024

Healthcare

Diabetes is South Africa's second biggest killer disease: hiking the sugar tax would help

6 Nov 2023

How to feel good with food

Healthcare

How to feel good with food

Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 5 Oct 2023

Source: Elmar Gubisch [www.[123rf.com 123rf]] The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) cancer research arm, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), will declare Aspartame, an artificial sweetener, as a “possible carcinogenic to humans” this month

Retail

Aspartame under the spotlight as WHO declares it a "possible carcinogenic to humans"

Danette Breitenbach 3 Jul 2023

Is your crazy lifestyle making you sick? - Medshield

Healthcare

Is your crazy lifestyle making you sick? - Medshield

Issued by Stone 26 May 2023

Healthcare

SA gears up for World Hypertension Day

16 May 2023

Healthcare

Cracking down on obesity in South Africa

Katja Hamilton 19 Apr 2023

Source: Supplied. Phatho Zondi, chief operating officer and clinical lead at Unu Health.

Healthcare

Standard Bank, Unu Health commit to bridging the gap in primary healthcare

28 Feb 2023

Healthcare

Hypertension, diabetes, stroke: they kill more people than infectious diseases and should get a Global Fund

Kaushik Ramaiya 30 Dec 2022

2022 L'Oréal-Unesco For Women in Science National Awards winners revealed

ESG & Sustainability

2022 L'Oréal-Unesco For Women in Science National Awards winners revealed

16 Nov 2022

How to make healthy eating choices easier

Healthcare

How to make healthy eating choices easier

Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 5 Oct 2022

Healthcare

SA's Tobacco Control Bill reaches major milestone on its path to law

3 Oct 2022

Source: Supplied. Dr Allan Pamba, the Africa network lead of the EMEA-LATAM countries at Roche Diagnostics.

Healthcare

Co-designing the future of African healthcare

Dr Allan Pamba 8 Sep 2022

The killer quintet

Healthcare

The killer quintet

Issued by Bonitas 20 May 2022

Retail

How big companies are targeting middle-income countries to boost ultra-processed food sales

Edwin Kwong, Joanna Williams, Phillip Baker, Rob Moodie and Thiago M Santos 22 Oct 2021

Why every South African needs to eat more vegetables and fruit every day

Healthcare

Why every South African needs to eat more vegetables and fruit every day

Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 7 Oct 2021

Redefining healthcare in 2022

Healthcare

Redefining healthcare in 2022

Issued by Bonitas 21 Sep 2021

More than a six pack

Healthcare

More than a six pack

Issued by Intercare 1 Jun 2021

Patients waiting at Connaught Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone (credit - Steven Rubin)

Healthcare

Inadequate healthcare measurement puts patients at risk in Global South

18 Nov 2020

Can mobile technology 'vaccinate' SA's private healthcare industry against Covid-19?

Healthcare

Can mobile technology 'vaccinate' SA's private healthcare industry against Covid-19?

Issued by Insight Survey 16 Nov 2020

Reprioritising existing occupational health threats in a time of Covid-19

Energy & Mining

Reprioritising existing occupational health threats in a time of Covid-19

12 Oct 2020

Older people in urban informal settlements live in poor socioeconomic conditions. Donwilson Odhiambo/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Healthcare

Combating lifestyle diseases can make a big difference in the lives of older people

Razak M Gyasi 12 Oct 2020

Good nutrition for good immunity

Healthcare

Good nutrition for good immunity

Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 8 Oct 2020

Bonitas preserves financial stability and reserves in a weak economy

Finance

Bonitas preserves financial stability and reserves in a weak economy

Issued by Bonitas 7 Aug 2020

People exercising in Ellis Park in Johannesburg, South Africa. Dino Lloyd/Gallo Images via Getty Images

Healthcare

South Africans must be healthier for universal healthcare to succeed

Jane Simmonds & Charles Parry 8 Jul 2020

Call for action to address malnutrition in all its forms

Healthcare

Call for action to address malnutrition in all its forms

Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 17 Jun 2020

David Gibbons, general manager, Roche Products

Healthcare

#BizTrends2020:Technology and public-private partnerships on pharma's agenda

David Gibbons, 13 Jan 2020

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Healthcare

#BizTrends2020: Where tech will take healthcare

Nicci Botha 8 Jan 2020

Namibia, WHO partner in strengthening clinical care of NCDs

Healthcare

Namibia, WHO partner in strengthening clinical care of NCDs

30 Dec 2019

From fitness to finance - Building a smarter, stronger South Africa

Finance

From fitness to finance - Building a smarter, stronger South Africa

Leigh Andrews, Issued by SAICA 13 Aug 2019

Healthcare

#bhf2019conference: UHC - what's working, what's not?

Nicci Botha 24 Jul 2019

There’s a lack of research that deals specifically with conditions in African countries. Shutterstock

Healthcare

Africa needs to up its research game to fight non-communicable diseases

Andre Pascal Kengne, Elvis Banboye Kidzeru & Muki Shey 19 Jun 2019

South Africa should learn from Brazil about how to tackle 'hidden hunger'

ESG & Sustainability

South Africa should learn from Brazil about how to tackle 'hidden hunger'

Brittany Kesselman 19 Jun 2019

Is sugar tax really a health measure or a tax income stream?

Finance

Is sugar tax really a health measure or a tax income stream?

18 Feb 2019

Photo: Western Cape Government

Healthcare

Thousands of us die from these illnesses each day. Will it ever end?

Yogan Pillay 11 Oct 2018

Piron Giullaume/Unsplash

Healthcare

Tackle Africa's chronic diseases with effective actions

Sam Otieno 18 Sep 2018

Professor Annalise Zemlin. Photo: Damien Schumann

Healthcare

Getting the balance right in detecting diabetes

Jorisna Bonthuys 10 Sep 2018

NCDs are the biggest killer in poorer countries

Healthcare

NCDs are the biggest killer in poorer countries

27 Jul 2018