Effective Alzheimer drug too expensive for UK health service

Lecanemab’s high cost and need for intensive monitoring for side effects ‘means it cannot be considered good value for the taxpayer’

Winter flu lifts Adcock’s OTC drugs

Pharmaceutical manufacturer says increased demand for its winter products boosted turnover

Sizwe Hosmed runs into trouble three years after bullish debut

Regulator and trustees to co-manage after the medical scheme runs into trouble with reserves

Mark Bower to retire as Netcare chair

Bower joined the board as an independent nonexecutive director in 2015 and was appointed chairperson in January 2023

GSK settles another lawsuit over cancer relating to heartburn drug

Zantac became the world’s best-selling medicine in 1988 and one of the first to top $1bn in annual sales

Novo Nordisk and Indonesia’s Bio Farma sign deal to produce insulin

Novo Nordisk will provide ‘expertise in insulin production’ and Bio Farma will provide  manufacturing facilities

Small private hospital groups get competition lifeline

Government comes to the rescue with some competition exemptions

Life Healthcare seals deal to sub-license cancer-screening tool

Life says it has retained R1bn to provide for funding requirements of LMI as part of the Alliance Medical Group disposal

WATCH: Behind Aspen’s push for vaccine autonomy in Africa

Business Day TV spoke to Stavros Nicolaou, senior executive for strategic trade at Aspen

BioNTech gets $145m funding boost for African vaccine plants

Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations and vaccine maker expand partnership

WATCH: Growth in Southern Africa lifts Life Healthcare

Business Day TV spoke to Life Healthcare's CEO Peter Wharton-Hood

Litigating against NHI is a last resort, says Life Healthcare CEO

Peter Wharton-Hood advocates for ‘constructive engagement’ and closer collaboration

China approves Eli Lilly diabetes drug

Tirzepatide cleared for use, intensifying competition with Novo Nordisk in the biggest  Asian market

WATCH: Netcare weathers tough economic conditions

Business Day TV speaks to Richard Friedland, CEO of Netcare

AstraZeneca to build facility in Singapore for cancer drugs

CEO Pascal Soriot laudes Singapore as a top global venue for investment