Medical indemnity regulations: MPS maintains commitment to South Africa

Medical genetics in South Africa.

Medical practice in South Africa is firmly grounded in the British tradition. The country's first medical faculty was established at the South African College (soon to become the University of Cape Town) in 1917 and, although the second followed in Johannesburg three years later, another 23 years. were to elapse before another came into being. Today there are seven medical schools (eight if one...

Medical electives in South Africa.

vaccines, it is anticipated that they will have similar safety profiles, with serious adverse events after vaccination being uncommon. However, ongoing monitoring and further data are needed. Influenza vaccine uptake 7 in the northern hemisphere has been poor even in the face of the pandemic. 8 The incorporation of the pandemic strain into the regular seasonal vaccine for the southern hemispher...

Medical Malpractice and Compensation in South Africa

On Temporal Regulations and Commitment Protocols

The proposal of Elisa Marengo’s thesis is to extend commitment protocols in order to (i) allow for expressing commitments to temporal regulations, and (ii) to supply a tool for expressing laws, conventions and the like, in order to specify legal interactions. These two aspects will be deeply investigated in the proposal of a unified framework. This proposal is part of ongoing work that will be ...

Child research in South Africa: How do the new regulations help?

Child research is governed by legal norms in the National Health Act (2003) and the Regulations. There is increasing harmony between the two on many issues, including the conditions under which children should be enrolled in research. The most striking disjuncture in the ethical-legal framework remains the allowable consent strategy for child research, where the law requires mandatory parental ...