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Healthcare

Award-winning kidney specialist leads the fight against youth dialysis rates

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Stay informed about vaccine safety for the well-being of your child, by Medshield

Public Health

Stay informed about vaccine safety for the well-being of your child, by Medshield

Issued by Stone 17 Dec 2024

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Healthcare

HIV: there’s hope for a cure – where we stand now

3 Dec 2024

Source: Roche Diagnostics Group site in South Africa.

Healthcare

Roche champions equitable healthcare across Africa

Katja Hamilton 27 Aug 2024

Infectious Diseases

WHO: Governments urged to prioritise hepatitis testing, treatment

30 Jul 2024

Liver health matters, by Medshield

Public Health

Liver health matters, by Medshield

Issued by Stone 28 Jun 2024

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Public Health

Urgent call to action: Combatting chronic kidney disease crisis in Africa

18 Mar 2024

What you need to know about child vaccinations - Medshield

Paediatrics

What you need to know about child vaccinations - Medshield

Issued by Stone 22 May 2023

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HIV/AIDS

New deputy president to launch national strategic plan for HIV, TB and STIs

7 Mar 2023

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Public Health

Condoms ineffective against preventing STDs, research shows

21 Feb 2023

Reduce your risk of cancer - small changes for a big difference

Oncology

Reduce your risk of cancer - small changes for a big difference

Issued by Intercare 1 Feb 2023

Abbott seeks new treatment standards for Africa's silent killer disease

Healthcare

Abbott seeks new treatment standards for Africa's silent killer disease

29 Apr 2022

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Covid-19

What's next in the Covid-19 pandemic?

28 Sep 2021

A childhood vaccine given at birth is effective. BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Infectious Diseases

This is no time to neglect hepatitis - 70-million Africans are infected

Pauline Bakibinga 27 Jul 2021

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Medtech

What machine learning can offer Nigeria's healthcare system

Busayo Ajuwon, Alice Richardson & Brett Lidbury 21 Jul 2021

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Ethics & Medicolegal

Equity and access need to be at the forefront of innovation in human genome editing

Jantina de Vries & Françoise Baylis 14 Jul 2021

Could a simple pill beat Covid-19? Pfizer is giving it a go

Covid-19

Could a simple pill beat Covid-19? Pfizer is giving it a go

Peter Wark 1 Jun 2021

New drugs work against the many strains of hepatitis C found in African countries

Infectious Diseases

New drugs work against the many strains of hepatitis C found in African countries

John McLauchlan 27 May 2021

South African healthcare workers are at high risk of contracting hepatitis B

Medical Research

South African healthcare workers are at high risk of contracting hepatitis B

13 Apr 2021

Ebola virus virion. CDC/Cynthia Goldsmith

Infectious Diseases

Ebola might be a chronic infection - but here's why we shouldn't panic

Connor Bamford 1 Apr 2021

Study: SA variant could have emerged in E Cape after first wave

Covid-19

Study: SA variant could have emerged in E Cape after first wave

18 Mar 2021

Environmental surveillance could provide an earlier and clearer picture for public health interventions

Environment & Natural Resources

Environmental surveillance could provide an earlier and clearer picture for public health interventions

Dr Eunice Ubomba-Jaswa and Dr Nonhlanhla Kalebaila 23 Sep 2020

Investment health-related research is not adequate. GettyImages

Medical Research

African health research needs support: here's one programme that's working

Jude Igumbor 1 Sep 2020

A man undergoes testing for Covid-19 at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital isolation centre, Nigeria. Audu Marte/AFP via Getty Images

Covid-19

African countries need cheaper Covid-19 tests: here's how to get them

Timothy Amukele & Mustafa Barbhuiya 16 Jul 2020

A vaccine must go through six crucial steps. PhotobyTawat/ Shutterstock

Covid-19

Coronavirus vaccine: Here are the steps it will need to go through during development

Samantha Vanderslott, Andrew Pollard & Tonia Thomas 1 Apr 2020

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Covid-19

Covid-19 testing: the answers to six simple questions

Glenda Mary Davison 27 Mar 2020

Bill Chen at San Francisco International Airport after arriving on a flight from Shanghai. Chen said his temperature was screened at the Shanghai airport before he departed.
AP Photo/Terry Chea

Public Health

Airplanes spread diseases quickly - so maybe unvaccinated people shouldn't be allowed to fly

Christopher Robertson & Keith Joiner 4 Mar 2020

Lessons from keeping the country free of Ebola have informed steps taken since the coronavirus scare first broke. Shutterstock

Public Health

Nigeria and disease outbreaks. Better prepared, but still weak spots

Folasade Ogunsola 4 Feb 2020

HIV-infected and exposed children are vulnerable to vaccine-preventable diseases. Shutterstock

HIV/AIDS

Children and HIV: what we found about vaccine-preventable diseases

Olatunji Adetokunboh 9 Dec 2019

Dr Duncan MacFadyen, head of conservation research at Oppenheimer Generations

Environment & Natural Resources

Why we need African science for African sustainability

Duncan MacFadyen 6 Sep 2019

Hepatitis is a major public health burden. Shutterstock

Infectious Diseases

The WHO wants to rid the world of hepatitis by 2030: why it's a tough ask

Pauline Bakibinga 31 Jul 2019

Why food safety in Africa's informal markets must be driven by consumers

Food Security

Why food safety in Africa's informal markets must be driven by consumers

Arie Havelaar and Ashagrie Zewdu Woldegiorgis 10 Jun 2019

Stronger health systems will boost the fight against infectious diseases

Public Health

Stronger health systems will boost the fight against infectious diseases

13 May 2019

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Medical Research

The cost of smoking your socks

Dr Helen Weber 6 May 2019

Human milk banks collect, pasteurise, test, store, and distribute donated breastmilk. NataBU/Shutterstock

Public Health

Kenyan hospital opens human milk bank - a rarity in sub-Saharan Africa

Elizabeth Kimani-Murage 23 Apr 2019

A woman receiving an oral cholera vaccine in Beira, Mozambique. Celeste Mac-Arthur

Public Health

Cyclone Idai is over - but its health effects will be felt for a long time

Kerrigan McCarthy & Lucille Blumberg 15 Apr 2019

There is currently no established cure for Ebola – could antibody treatments be the answer? AHMED JALLANZO/EPA

Infectious Diseases

Guinea pigs cured of Ebola with antibodies, raising hopes for treatment in humans

Pramila Rajil & Alain Townsend 4 Apr 2019

Banking your breastmilk saves lives

Paediatrics

Banking your breastmilk saves lives

Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 12 Mar 2019

Child ready to receive measles vaccine, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. Christine Stabell Benn, Author provided

Infectious Diseases

Vaccines have health effects beyond protecting against target diseases

Christine Stabell Benn 15 Jan 2019

Study: More black South Africans are donating blood

Medical Research

Study: More black South Africans are donating blood

31 Oct 2018

Professot Ian Sanne, Right to Care CEO

Infectious Diseases

Call for hepatitis C elimination programme

8 Oct 2018

Top 10 nominees for Innovation Prize for Africa 2018 announced

Infrastructure, Innovation & Technology

Top 10 nominees for Innovation Prize for Africa 2018 announced

14 Sep 2018

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Medtech

Cracking the cold chain challenge is key to making vaccines ubiquitous

16 Jul 2018

Why manufacturing a key vaccine in South Africa is so important

Infectious Diseases

Why manufacturing a key vaccine in South Africa is so important

David Walwyn 19 Apr 2018

New clinical skills training centre aims to improve quality and safety

Surgical Procedures

New clinical skills training centre aims to improve quality and safety

Nicci Botha 27 Mar 2018

Photo: MGH Institute of Health Professions

Public Health

Lives at risk as Murchison Hospital in KwaZulu-Natal continues to operate

Neels Blom 20 Mar 2018

Photo: Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health

Medical Research

Study: Vaccines prevent death and alleviate poverty

19 Feb 2018

How Cape Town's water crisis could make people sick

Health & Welfare

How Cape Town's water crisis could make people sick

Bob Mash, Hassan Mahomed and Shrikant Peters 15 Feb 2018

#DayZero: Tips to keep healthy if the taps run dry

Public Health

#DayZero: Tips to keep healthy if the taps run dry

9 Feb 2018