Kalapeng Denneboom Pharmacy

06/10/2021

DURBAN – The National Department of Health says the matter on whether pharmacists would be allowed to dispense first line anti-retroviral drugs is closed. The Unity Forum of Family Practitioners (UFFP), the African Viral Society (AVCS) and the Independent Practitioner Association Foundation (Ipaf)...

23/07/2021

Independent pharmacies can influence how well plans and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) score on their performance metrics. In turn, PBMs evaluate their pharmacy partners using clinical and operational metrics that directly affect payer reimbursement. One of the biggest challenges for independent p...

23/07/2021

Although the benefits of a regular workout are endless, sometimes it takes more than the knowingness that something is good for us to keep us motivated. That’s where gamification and incentives come into play, writes Callan Sexton, Exercise Director at Virgin Active South Africa. Twenty-five per c...

29/06/2021

The week marks World Allergy Week, an annual event that aims to raise awareness around allergies and their often-serious impact on people. This year’s campaign is focused on educating people about anaphylaxis. Professor Mike Levin, CEO of the Allergy Foundation of South Africa (AFSA) – the organ...

29/06/2021

KEY POINTS The “delta variant” has come to dominate headlines, having been discovered in India where it provoked an extreme surge in Covid cases before spreading around the world, with cases now rapidly rising in the U.S. But now a mutation of that variant has emerged, called “delta plus,” w...

21/06/2021

Limiting close face-to-face contact with others is the best way to reduce the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). What is social distancing? Social distancing, also called “physical distancing,” means keeping a safe space between yourself and other people who are not from your househo...

17/06/2021

08/06/2021

Most people have heard of the thyroid gland, but if you haven’t got a clue what your parathyroid is for, you are not alone. These tiny glands, the size of a grain of rice, are neighbours to the thyroid gland and have a distinct function. And, when things go wrong, the symptoms are also quite diffe...

23/05/2021

People with lupus are at higher risk of depression and anxiety because of all the stressors a chronic condition can bring on. Here’s how to cope. The licensed clinical psychologist Monica Blied, PhD, was a 27-year-old graduate student and single mother when she discovered that the debilitating fat...

23/05/2021

What kills most people who die from cancer is not the initial tumor. It’s the intolerable disease burden on the body that arises when tumor cells continually expand their numbers after spreading to different organs. In comparison to what is already known about specific mutations that drive early-s...