Tag: drug
The battle against Big Pharma for cheap drugs
Drug makers are fighting attempts to change the patent laws in South Africa that would allow cheaper generics on to the market – life-saving medication to treat life-threatening diseases. There is precedent for the country, however, in a ruling by the Indian Supreme Court over the patent for cancer drug Gleevec.
SA scientists helping to develop ‘game-changing’ TB drug
South African police in record drug bust
Doctors on the forefront of innovation
Medical advances are making history, and people – and babies – are surviving extraordinary odds. Many of these ground-breaking medical techniques are mastered by doctors in South Africa. In some instances, they are showing the world the way.
Drug abuse ‘enemy of freedom’: Zuma
Clinical trials for SA anti-malaria drug
South African police in R36m drug bust
Drug delivery gets sophisticated
Wits University researchers are developing advanced drug delivery technologies that will change the way people take medication, improve the efficacy of drugs and reduce the cost of medicine.
• SA triage system to go global
Germs produce novel HIV drug
South African researchers have genetically engineered a strain of bacteria to produce large and affordable quantities of a novel and highly effective treatment for HIV.
African farms grow malaria drug
Small-scale farmers in East Africa have become the world’s third-largest producers of a key ingredient in the most effective malaria drug available, producing a crop of the highest quality.
