The aim is to improve access to quality, safe and efficacious medical products
Growing marijuana for medical use is due to be greenlit, but the informal market is already booming
Pharmaceutical experts differ over how to limit dependency on a common painkiller.
Litha Healthcare Group, the worst performer on South Africa’s small-cap index this year, will not pay dividends for 2013.
Immune boosters should not be substituted for real medication. Yet the claims on their packaging may seduce and persuade consumers
Adcock Ingram’s battle with the MCC over Synap Forte and similar drugs has cast doubt on the state attorney’s capacity to handle legal challenges.
The Medicines Control Council has obtained an urgent court order to stop the continued sale of potentially deadly medicines.
A clinical trial which could benefit Aids patients is about to lose its funding because the Medicines Control Council won’t answer its phones.
Government will face a barrage of litigation if amendments to the Medicines Act currently before Parliament were not revised, MPs heard on Tuesday.
Parents have been warned not to give toddlers over-the-counter cough and cold remedies unless advised to do so by a healthcare professional.
Legislation is in the pipeline to have pseudoephedrine — a key ingredient in the manufacturing of the drug tik, or methamphetamine — reclassified, the Democratic Alliance said on…
Giving away free medicines, as Matthias Rath did with his vitamin products, is a well-known way of creating a market, the Treatment Action Campaign’s (TAC) counsel told the Cape…
The National Assembly on Thursday adopted a motion of full confidence in Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, thereby rejecting the original motion by the Democratic…
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) says it stands by its statement on South African Broadcasting Corporation board deputy chairperson Christine Qunta and on Thursday laid…
South African Broadcasting Corporation board deputy chairperson Christine Qunta has demanded the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) stop publishing defamatory material about her.…
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has laid a charge against South African Broadcasting Corporation board deputy chairperson Christine Qunta of contravening provisions of the Medicines…
