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How reliable exactly are food-intolerance blood tests?

6 Jun 2024

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AFSA highlights growing food allergy epidemic

5 Jun 2024

Avoid 'fexting' to promote healthy communication

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Avoid 'fexting' to promote healthy communication

4 Jun 2024

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TB vaccine: WHO expert explains why it's taken 100 years for a scientific breakthrough, and why it's such a big deal

Charles Shey Wiysonge 8 Nov 2023

Source: City of Hope.

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Breakthroughs in medicine: top virologist on the two most important developments for Africa

Oyewale Tomori 2 Nov 2023

Understanding the impact of nutrition on autoimmunity

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Understanding the impact of nutrition on autoimmunity

Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 30 May 2023

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#HIVToday: Abbott's top scientist speaks to staying one step ahead of a constantly mutating virus

Katja Hamilton 28 Apr 2023

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BioNTech starts human trial to test malaria vaccine

28 Dec 2022

Remembering the 'me' in merry: Self-care strategies for the holiday season

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Remembering the 'me' in merry: Self-care strategies for the holiday season

Issued by Intercare 2 Dec 2022

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Serum Institute to produce Ebola vaccine for use in Uganda outbreak

Aaron Ross 17 Oct 2022

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Moderna sues Pfizer

30 Aug 2022

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Moderna to seek emergency authorisation for Covid shot for children younger than six

23 Mar 2022

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Pfizer and BioNTech pressed to release vaccine for under 5s, despite mixed trial results

2 Feb 2022

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Report adverse effects from Covid jabs, Department of Health urges

Katja Hamilton 13 Jan 2022

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SAMRC sponsors landmark Covid-19 vaccine trial in collaborative bid to combat HIV

13 Jan 2022

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Probe into Covid-19 booster jabs for SA babies and toddlers

Katja Hamilton 13 Dec 2021

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New vaccine tailored to Omicron can be ready in 100 days

28 Nov 2021

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Breakthrough malaria vaccine offers to reinvigorate the fight against the disease

Eunice Anyango Owino 11 Oct 2021

Professor Felicity Burt

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New variants of Covid-19 may prolong the duration of the virus

13 Aug 2021

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Study: Lower antibody activity against delta variant at single dose - but vaccines still work

Zania Stamataki 28 Jul 2021

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TB prevention has relied on the same vaccine for 100 years. It's time for innovation

Bavesh Kana 22 Jul 2021

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Study: HIV and TB co-infection skews Covid-19 T cell response

24 Jun 2021

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Studies show good response to J&J jab

18 Jun 2021

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

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

Peter Wark 1 Jun 2021

15 facts about the Covid vaccine

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15 facts about the Covid vaccine

Issued by Bonitas 11 May 2021

The world spends billions on treated mosquito nets each year. Irene Abdou / Alamy Stock Photo

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New malaria vaccine proves highly effective - and Covid shows how quickly it could be deployed

Adrian Hill 26 Apr 2021

Ebola virus virion. CDC/Cynthia Goldsmith

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

Connor Bamford 1 Apr 2021

Antiretroviral treatment found to reduce risk of developing active TB - study

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Antiretroviral treatment found to reduce risk of developing active TB - study

11 Mar 2021

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Viruses can hijack cellular process in order to block immune response

22 Feb 2021

How an optimised vaccination programme can help improve farmer outputs

Agriculture

How an optimised vaccination programme can help improve farmer outputs

18 Feb 2021

Variants, vaccines, and virology - are we protected?

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Variants, vaccines, and virology - are we protected?

Felicity Burt, Dominique Goedhals & Sabeeha Vawda 4 Feb 2021

Health care workers and patients in the temporary outside area Steve Biko Academic Hospital created to screen and treat suspected Covid-19 cases in Pretoria. Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images via Getty Images

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South African scientists who discovered new Covid-19 variant share what they know

Willem Hanekom & Tulio de Oliveira 25 Jan 2021

Leading scientists speculate that vaccines will help us get to a point where SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, will be just another common cold. Illustration: Lisa Nelson

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Will vaccines eradicate SARS-CoV-2?

James Stent 18 Jan 2021

Severe Covid may be caused by 'autoantibodies' - here is what that means

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Severe Covid may be caused by 'autoantibodies' - here is what that means

Rebecca Aicheler 17 Dec 2020

Covid-19 shows gender bias: men more likely to need critical care

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Covid-19 shows gender bias: men more likely to need critical care

10 Dec 2020

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Covid-19 vaccine trials in Africa: what's promising, and what's problematic

Benjamin Kagina 2 Dec 2020

To suppress the Covid-19 pandemic, tens of millions of South Africans would have to be vaccinated. Nothing at that scale has been done here before. Photo: Armin Kübelbeck (CC-BY-SA via Wikimedia Commons)

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Vaccinating tens of millions of people will be very difficult

James Stent & Nathan Geffen 27 Nov 2020

Why the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine is now a global game changer

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Why the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine is now a global game changer

Michael Head 24 Nov 2020

Research to shed light on immune system response to Covid-19

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Research to shed light on immune system response to Covid-19

27 Oct 2020

In autoimmune diseases, circulating antibodies destroy an individual’s own tissues.
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Covid-19 causes some patients' immune systems to attack their own bodies, which may contribute to severe illness

Matthew Woodruff 26 Oct 2020

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How changing vaccine schedules can save costs and lives: findings from South Africa

Jeffrey Dorfman 29 Sep 2020

Nigerian scientists are working to better understand coronavirus. African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Disease

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Nigerian scientists have identified seven lineages of SARS-CoV-2: why it matters

Christian Happi 7 Sep 2020

Experts are confident that there will be a vaccine next year. PenWin /iStock / Getty Images Plus

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9 reasons you can be optimistic that a vaccine for Covid-19 will be widely available in 2021

William Petri 24 Aug 2020

Census enumerators in Nairobi, Kenya. Countries need to collect comparable statistics about populations. SIMON MAINA/AFP via Getty Images

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Flaws in the collection of African population statistics block Covid-19 insights

Emmanuel Olamijuwon, Fidelia A. A. Dake & Oluwaseyi Dolapo Somefun 13 Aug 2020

It is unclear how well masks work.
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3 major scientific controversies about coronavirus

Manal Mohammed 11 Aug 2020