🔒 FT: Pricy new cancer drugs offer patients hope but pile pressure on health budgetsÂ
Medical breakthroughs come with spiralling price tag, leaving policymakers with tough decisions
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The “Mandatory Cover” healthcare scheme that the ANC should adopt over NHI
Netcare CEO Richard Friedland proposed a “Mandatory Cover for the Formally Employed” scheme
Class, cuisine, and catastrophe: The food divide fuelling a global health crisis – Andrew Kenny
Andrew Kenny explores the stark class divide in food preferences
🔒 FT – From Covid to cancer: BioNTech and Moderna’s bet on personal vaccines
Pandemic winners face hurdles as they seek to bring their groundbreaking technology to oncology
🔒 FT: Cracking cancer: A $1tn race for treatments is excluding some forms of the disease (Part 1)
The first in an FT series looking at the new energy behind the fight for cancer cures
Climate change boosts tick populations and disease risks: Lara Williams
As climate change intensifies, ticks are expanding their reach and spreading diseases
Everything you need to know about Mpox: WHO issues emergency after disease mutates and spreads in Africa
Recently, a mutated strain of mpox has emerged across six African countries
🔒 Brain tech breakthrough restores ALS patient’s voice
Casey Harrell, diagnosed with ALS in 2019, experienced a breakthrough
🔒 FT: Rising rates of cancer in young people prompts hunt for the environmental culprit
That many of the cancers are gastrointestinal offers clues and could point to microplastics
🔒 The Economist: How to reduce the risk of developing dementia
A healthy lifestyle can prevent or delay almost half of cases