by Chandré Blignaut | Sep 21, 2020 | Featured, News
Drones boost healthcare supply chains Health workers serving remote communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) must often undertake a six-day return journey to collect vaccines, traversing dense tropical forests and often the raging Congo River and its...
by Chandré Blignaut | Sep 21, 2020 | Featured, News
Healthier lifestyles can prevent or delay dementia – Get off the couch and delay dementia in old age More than 50-million people globally live with dementia, a figure expected to treble in the next 30 years,1 but up to 40% of cases could be prevented or delayed by...
by Chandré Blignaut | Sep 7, 2020 | Featured, News, SAJCN
South Africans should prioritise gut health as a focus area for intervention to achieve their nutrition and health goals The One Health Summit themed Your Gut’s Instinct took place on the 27th of August 2020. The event, hosted in webinar format given the current...
by Chandré Blignaut | Sep 7, 2020 | Featured, News, SAPA
COVID-19 places supply chain management under spotlight warns Ikhaya As the pharmaceutical industry eagerly anticipates the creation and distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine and the pandemic itself shines a spotlight on health and safety issues, companies will need to...
by Chandré Blignaut | Sep 3, 2020 | Featured, News, SAGP
Raising a red flag about angina – an under-recognised and under-treated disorder Johannesburg, 3 September 2020: The burden of cardiovascular disease continues to grow in South Africa.1 The age-standardised death rates for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in South...
by Chandré Blignaut | Aug 31, 2020 | News
Imperial makes strategic investment in South African based healthcare manufacturing business Effective August 2020, Imperial acquired a 49% shareholding in Pharmafrique (Pty) Ltd (trading as Kiara Health). Kiara Health is an African pharmaceutical manufacturing and...
