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Mandela Day: Gauteng's health initiative clears surgery backlog

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Africa Health Congress: SA's new NHI - path to UHC or empty promise?

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Mandela Day: Gauteng's health initiative clears surgery backlog

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Filling the holes

Filling the holes

Andile Makholwa 19 Jul 2013

Pravin Gordhan (Image: GCIS)

Extensive tax review underway

Linda Ensor 19 Jul 2013

Men's hearts break more easily than women's

Men's hearts break more easily than women's

Patience Bambalele 19 Jul 2013

A Yale physician has begun using the 3D printers at Yale's Center for Engineering and Innovation Design to make 3D organs — precise replicas of actual patients' organs. Here, a knee with tumor. (Image by Yale CEID)

Dr Mark Michalski is ready to print a 3-D brain (maybe yours)

18 Jul 2013

New research to revolutionise understanding of lung cancer

New research to revolutionise understanding of lung cancer

18 Jul 2013

Govt clinches deal for smallholder farmers

18 Jul 2013

HIV-positive people get life assurance

HIV-positive people get life assurance

18 Jul 2013

Sizwe's Gobinca downplays CMS findings

Sizwe's Gobinca downplays CMS findings

Mpho Sibanyoni 18 Jul 2013

inacea, left, fish oil, centre, and glucosamine pills are shown in San Francisco. Eating a lot of oily fish or taking potent fish oil supplements may increase a man's risk of developing prostate cancer, new research suggests.

Too much fish oil might boost prostate cancer risk, study says

Steven Reinberg 17 Jul 2013

Balveen Kaur, PhD.

New drug targets brain-tumour cells

17 Jul 2013

Bizcommunity, Recruitgroup launch BizCareers Column

Bizcommunity, Recruitgroup launch BizCareers Column

Bizcommunity.com 17 Jul 2013

Ohio State cancer expert separates facts of sun safety from fiction

16 Jul 2013

Yale researchers uncover typhoid's lethal secret

Yale researchers uncover typhoid's lethal secret

Bill Hathaway 16 Jul 2013

UK study to examine antibiotic effectiveness in treating eczema in children

UK study to examine antibiotic effectiveness in treating eczema in children

16 Jul 2013

Stand up...for your health

Howard Rybko 16 Jul 2013

Male medical circumcisions on the rise in Gauteng

16 Jul 2013

Molewa to launch Bloemendal bulk water project

16 Jul 2013

Ascendis Health adds two acquisitions bringing investment to R1bn

Ascendis Health adds two acquisitions bringing investment to R1bn

15 Jul 2013

The Myriad decision: A mixed bag for the biotech industry

Joanne van Harmelen 15 Jul 2013

Bhekisisa Mncube

Rotavirus crisis, what crisis?

Bhekisisa Mncube 12 Jul 2013

High governance risk at JSE-listed telecommunications, technology, health industries

12 Jul 2013

Mandela responding to treatment

11 Jul 2013

Redi Tlhabi finds out why Africa is still the world’s most dangerous place to have a baby.

Africa: The most dangerous place to have a baby?

11 Jul 2013

Medical expenditure drops marginally

Medical expenditure drops marginally

11 Jul 2013

Aaron Motsoaledi (Image: GCIS)

Medunsa to move to new university

11 Jul 2013

SA private medical aids not really all that different in customer satisfaction

SA private medical aids not really all that different in customer satisfaction

10 Jul 2013

UCT medical historian awarded global AIDS research grant

UCT medical historian awarded global AIDS research grant

8 Jul 2013

Liberty Medical Scheme combats the scourge of non-communicable diseases (NCDs)

8 Jul 2013

Medics make easy prey for gangsters

Medics make easy prey for gangsters

8 Jul 2013

CPR saves teenager's life

5 Jul 2013

Africa news

Efforts to tackle malnutrition recieve boost

David Njaaga 15 Jul 2013

Nigeria cuts phone services

Nigeria cuts phone services

28 May 2013

Doctors strike over poor pay

Doctors strike over poor pay

21 May 2013

Rwanda's remarkable health recovery

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Men's hearts break more easily than women's

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Patience Bambalele 19 Jul 2013

A Yale physician has begun using the 3D printers at Yale's Center for Engineering and Innovation Design to make 3D organs — precise replicas of actual patients' organs. Here, a knee with tumor. (Image by Yale CEID)

Dr Mark Michalski is ready to print a 3-D brain (maybe yours)

18 Jul 2013

New research to revolutionise understanding of lung cancer

New research to revolutionise understanding of lung cancer

18 Jul 2013

Govt clinches deal for smallholder farmers

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HIV-positive people get life assurance

HIV-positive people get life assurance

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Sizwe's Gobinca downplays CMS findings

Sizwe's Gobinca downplays CMS findings

Mpho Sibanyoni 18 Jul 2013

inacea, left, fish oil, centre, and glucosamine pills are shown in San Francisco. Eating a lot of oily fish or taking potent fish oil supplements may increase a man's risk of developing prostate cancer, new research suggests.

Too much fish oil might boost prostate cancer risk, study says

Steven Reinberg 17 Jul 2013

Balveen Kaur, PhD.

New drug targets brain-tumour cells

17 Jul 2013

Bizcommunity, Recruitgroup launch BizCareers Column

Bizcommunity, Recruitgroup launch BizCareers Column

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Ohio State cancer expert separates facts of sun safety from fiction

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Yale researchers uncover typhoid's lethal secret

Yale researchers uncover typhoid's lethal secret

Bill Hathaway 16 Jul 2013

UK study to examine antibiotic effectiveness in treating eczema in children

UK study to examine antibiotic effectiveness in treating eczema in children

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Stand up...for your health

Howard Rybko 16 Jul 2013

Male medical circumcisions on the rise in Gauteng

16 Jul 2013

Molewa to launch Bloemendal bulk water project

16 Jul 2013

Ascendis Health adds two acquisitions bringing investment to R1bn

Ascendis Health adds two acquisitions bringing investment to R1bn

15 Jul 2013

The Myriad decision: A mixed bag for the biotech industry

Joanne van Harmelen 15 Jul 2013

Bhekisisa Mncube

Rotavirus crisis, what crisis?

Bhekisisa Mncube 12 Jul 2013

High governance risk at JSE-listed telecommunications, technology, health industries

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Mandela responding to treatment

11 Jul 2013

Redi Tlhabi finds out why Africa is still the world’s most dangerous place to have a baby.

Africa: The most dangerous place to have a baby?

11 Jul 2013

Medical expenditure drops marginally

Medical expenditure drops marginally

11 Jul 2013

Aaron Motsoaledi (Image: GCIS)

Medunsa to move to new university

11 Jul 2013

SA private medical aids not really all that different in customer satisfaction

SA private medical aids not really all that different in customer satisfaction

10 Jul 2013

UCT medical historian awarded global AIDS research grant

UCT medical historian awarded global AIDS research grant

8 Jul 2013

Liberty Medical Scheme combats the scourge of non-communicable diseases (NCDs)

8 Jul 2013

Medics make easy prey for gangsters

Medics make easy prey for gangsters

8 Jul 2013

CPR saves teenager's life

5 Jul 2013

Metabolic molecule drives growth of aggressive brain cancer

5 Jul 2013

Shared brain disruption illustrates similarities between mental illnesses

Shared brain disruption illustrates similarities between mental illnesses

4 Jul 2013

South Africans are 'bleeding' medical aids

South Africans are 'bleeding' medical aids

4 Jul 2013

Development of hands and feet may help unlock evolution's toolkit

Bill Hathaway 3 Jul 2013

First national Forensic Services conference opens

3 Jul 2013

Nicotinic alpha7 receptors (indicated by red arrowheads) are next to a synapse between two brain cells in the prefrontal cortex. Stimulation of the nicotinic alpha7 receptors allows the cells to communicate and thus generate higher cognition. (Image from Dr. C. Paspalas, Yale University)

Yale team finds nicotinic receptor essential for cognition - and mental health

2 Jul 2013

Vaginal delivery ups risk of pelvic organ prolapse

Karen N. Peart 2 Jul 2013

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Brain-penetrating particle attacks deadly tumors

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Gene discoveries may aid fight against wheat disease

1 Jul 2013

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Madiba's condition improves

28 Jun 2013

Aspen buys MSD factory for R10,6bn

Aspen buys MSD factory for R10,6bn

28 Jun 2013

Comments on healthcare funding probe

Comments on healthcare funding probe

28 Jun 2013