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Aspen Pharmacare announced it will sell the European commercialisation rights and related intellectual property for its women’s health product, Ovestin, to Ennogen Healthcare International for $220m (approximately R3.66bn at the current exchange rate of R16.62 per US Dollar).
According to a 2024 situational analysis prepared for the National Planning Commission, only around one in four South Africans who need mental healthcare, receive it. In July 2025, Deputy Health Minister, Dr Joe Phaahla also highlighted the limited resources allocated to mental healthcare…
The call is directed at public service teams whose implemented projects address healthcare challenges and demonstrate measurable improvements for patients or staff.
Medical schemes, gap cover policies and primary healthcare plans each offer valuable protection against healthcare costs, but costs are being shifted between these products – undermining attempts to contain rising healthcare expenses, actuaries warn.
Biomedical and biotechnology company Boston Scientific has recalled its Direxion and Direxion HI-FLO Torqueable Microcatheters. The recall affects 199 units distributed nationwide to healthcare facilities, including Diagnostic Radiological Services, Groote Schuur Hospital, Netcare facilities, Life…
For decades, public perception of healthcare funding has centred on a safety net for the unexpected, covering an emergency appendix removal, a sudden broken bone, or a bout of acute pneumonia.