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Europe: Covid-19 contract-transparency ruling fails to cloud Von der Leyen's future

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Mandela Day: Gauteng's health initiative clears surgery backlog

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Potential diagnostic tool, treatment for Parkinson's disease

30 Oct 2019

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HPCSA needs an urgent overhaul

29 Oct 2019

New TB vaccine shows promise

New TB vaccine shows promise

29 Oct 2019

Cadaver-based teaching prepares students intellectually and emotionally to deal with the challenges they will face in their health sciences careers. Dr Tobias Houlton

Health professionals and cadavers: the quest for an ethical approach

Brendon Kurt Billings & Beverley Kramer 29 Oct 2019

Medical Aid - Making the right choice

Medical Aid - Making the right choice

Bonitas 29 Oct 2019

Millions of young children get malaria. These two got it in 2010.
AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam

There's a way for modern medicine to cure diseases even when the treatments aren't profitable

James Leahy 28 Oct 2019

Workshop emphasises benefits of Nuss procedure for sunken chest deformity

Workshop emphasises benefits of Nuss procedure for sunken chest deformity

25 Oct 2019

GHA and COHSASA announce strategic partnership to enhance medical travel standards in Africa

GHA and COHSASA announce strategic partnership to enhance medical travel standards in Africa

COHSASA 25 Oct 2019

Kenya launched HPV immunisation programme

Kenya launched HPV immunisation programme

24 Oct 2019

Leigh Venter and Henri la Grange. T-Systems South Africa

Improving healthcare delivery will stop profits from bleeding

23 Oct 2019

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Climate change could increase the threat of malaria in Central Africa

23 Oct 2019

Grant to fund child-friendly TB treatments

Grant to fund child-friendly TB treatments

22 Oct 2019

Benjamin Rosman in conversation with Tilly Lockey at the SingularityU South Africa Summit 2019.

#SingularityUSouthAfrica2019: What's possible in the future

22 Oct 2019

#SingularityUSouthAfrica2019: How applied computing can save your life

#SingularityUSouthAfrica2019: How applied computing can save your life

22 Oct 2019

The 2019 Galliova Awards Winners: Esther Malan (2019 Galliova Broiler Champion Food Writer); Nomvuselelo Mncube (2019 Galliova Egg Champion Food Writer); Margie Els-Burger (2019 Galliova Food Writer of the Year; Chiara Turilli (2019 Galliova Up & Coming Food Writer of the Year); Glynis Horning (2019 Galliova Health Writer of the Year).

Strong health message resonates at 2019 Galliova Awards

Leigh Andrews 21 Oct 2019

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AI delivers mental health services to children and youth

21 Oct 2019

Innovative efforts have been put in place to reach populations in partially and totally inaccessible parts of Borno state. Wikimedia Commons

Valuable lessons from Nigeria's marathon effort to eradicate polio

Oyewale Tomori 21 Oct 2019

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Women using heroin in Kenya: why it's important to intervene early in life

Catherine Mwangi & John Gachohi 18 Oct 2019

Dr Paula Fujiwara

National leaders must step in to eradicate TB

18 Oct 2019

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Medical schemes performance underwhelming

17 Oct 2019

Business survival guide during load shedding

Business survival guide during load shedding

17 Oct 2019

Quarter century study on ageing in South Africa offers new perspectives

Kathleen Kahn & Stephen Tollman 17 Oct 2019

Foremost health quality and safety conference for Cape Town

Foremost health quality and safety conference for Cape Town

COHSASA 17 Oct 2019

Genetic studies need to be more diverse.

Most genetic studies use only white participants - this will lead to greater health inequality

Karoline Kuchenbaecker Evangelos Vassos & Roseann Peterson 16 Oct 2019

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Study sheds new light on barriers to a cure for HIV

16 Oct 2019

World Health Organisation

More than 18-million Ugandan children to be immunised against measles, rubella and polio

15 Oct 2019

The costly business of nursing negligence

The costly business of nursing negligence

15 Oct 2019

A community health worker screening a child’s hearing in Cape Town. Ora Buerkli

We used smartphones to screen young children for vision and hearing loss

De Wet Swanepoel 14 Oct 2019

Long live... you! Healthy habits that could add years to your life

Long live... you! Healthy habits that could add years to your life

Irvine Partners 14 Oct 2019

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Managing allergies in the 21st century

14 Oct 2019

Africa news

Kenya launched HPV immunisation programme

Kenya launched HPV immunisation programme

24 Oct 2019

Image: Medicines for Malaria

Climate change could increase the threat of malaria in Central Africa

23 Oct 2019

Unicef carers at a creche for children whose parents are being treated for Ebola. Building health infrastructure is crucial to stopping the next outbreak. Epa/ Hugh Kinsella Cunningham

Investing in health systems is the only way to stop the next Ebola outbreak

Emma Glennon & Freya Jephcott 22 Oct 2019

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AI delivers mental health services to children and youth

21 Oct 2019

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HPCSA needs an urgent overhaul

29 Oct 2019

New TB vaccine shows promise

New TB vaccine shows promise

29 Oct 2019

Cadaver-based teaching prepares students intellectually and emotionally to deal with the challenges they will face in their health sciences careers. Dr Tobias Houlton

Health professionals and cadavers: the quest for an ethical approach

Brendon Kurt Billings & Beverley Kramer 29 Oct 2019

Medical Aid - Making the right choice

Medical Aid - Making the right choice

Bonitas 29 Oct 2019

Millions of young children get malaria. These two got it in 2010.
AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam

There's a way for modern medicine to cure diseases even when the treatments aren't profitable

James Leahy 28 Oct 2019

Workshop emphasises benefits of Nuss procedure for sunken chest deformity

Workshop emphasises benefits of Nuss procedure for sunken chest deformity

25 Oct 2019

GHA and COHSASA announce strategic partnership to enhance medical travel standards in Africa

GHA and COHSASA announce strategic partnership to enhance medical travel standards in Africa

COHSASA 25 Oct 2019

Leigh Venter and Henri la Grange. T-Systems South Africa

Improving healthcare delivery will stop profits from bleeding

23 Oct 2019

Grant to fund child-friendly TB treatments

Grant to fund child-friendly TB treatments

22 Oct 2019

Benjamin Rosman in conversation with Tilly Lockey at the SingularityU South Africa Summit 2019.

#SingularityUSouthAfrica2019: What's possible in the future

22 Oct 2019

#SingularityUSouthAfrica2019: How applied computing can save your life

#SingularityUSouthAfrica2019: How applied computing can save your life

22 Oct 2019

The 2019 Galliova Awards Winners: Esther Malan (2019 Galliova Broiler Champion Food Writer); Nomvuselelo Mncube (2019 Galliova Egg Champion Food Writer); Margie Els-Burger (2019 Galliova Food Writer of the Year; Chiara Turilli (2019 Galliova Up & Coming Food Writer of the Year); Glynis Horning (2019 Galliova Health Writer of the Year).

Strong health message resonates at 2019 Galliova Awards

Leigh Andrews 21 Oct 2019

Innovative efforts have been put in place to reach populations in partially and totally inaccessible parts of Borno state. Wikimedia Commons

Valuable lessons from Nigeria's marathon effort to eradicate polio

Oyewale Tomori 21 Oct 2019

Syringe and cooked heroin. TM_SALE/Shutterstock

Women using heroin in Kenya: why it's important to intervene early in life

Catherine Mwangi & John Gachohi 18 Oct 2019

Dr Paula Fujiwara

National leaders must step in to eradicate TB

18 Oct 2019

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Medical schemes performance underwhelming

17 Oct 2019

Business survival guide during load shedding

Business survival guide during load shedding

17 Oct 2019

Quarter century study on ageing in South Africa offers new perspectives

Kathleen Kahn & Stephen Tollman 17 Oct 2019

Foremost health quality and safety conference for Cape Town

Foremost health quality and safety conference for Cape Town

COHSASA 17 Oct 2019

Genetic studies need to be more diverse.

Most genetic studies use only white participants - this will lead to greater health inequality

Karoline Kuchenbaecker Evangelos Vassos & Roseann Peterson 16 Oct 2019

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Study sheds new light on barriers to a cure for HIV

16 Oct 2019

World Health Organisation

More than 18-million Ugandan children to be immunised against measles, rubella and polio

15 Oct 2019

The costly business of nursing negligence

The costly business of nursing negligence

15 Oct 2019

A community health worker screening a child’s hearing in Cape Town. Ora Buerkli

We used smartphones to screen young children for vision and hearing loss

De Wet Swanepoel 14 Oct 2019

Long live... you! Healthy habits that could add years to your life

Long live... you! Healthy habits that could add years to your life

Irvine Partners 14 Oct 2019

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Managing allergies in the 21st century

14 Oct 2019

Image source: Getty/Gallo

First-line treatment for epileptic seizures ineffective - new study

11 Oct 2019

160 patients receive gift of sight as part of Unclouding Cataracts campaign

160 patients receive gift of sight as part of Unclouding Cataracts campaign

11 Oct 2019

Medical skincare products are worth the investment

Medical skincare products are worth the investment

Pitsi Kewana, Skin Renewal 11 Oct 2019

Lerato Mosiah, CEO of the Health Funders Association

HMI recommendations will contribute to universal coverage

10 Oct 2019

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#WorldMentalHealthDay: I am not 'always on'... for the sake of my sanity

Khuthalani Khumalo 10 Oct 2019

Let's talk therapy. Together we can break the stigma around mental health

Let's talk therapy. Together we can break the stigma around mental health

Michael Hathorn, Ginkgo Agency 10 Oct 2019

We did the sums on South Africa's mental health spend. They're not pretty

Sumaiyah Docrat & Crick Lund 9 Oct 2019

Many families in the DRC can’t routinely access preventive services. Shutterstock

Outbreaks of measles: compounding challenges in the DRC

Matthew Ferrari 8 Oct 2019

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, World Health Organisation director-general, speaking on Ebola at the UN’s Geneva headquarters. EPA/Martial Trezzinni

Why it's dangerous for Tanzania to withhold information about Ebola fears

Abdhalah Ziraba 7 Oct 2019

The lack diagnostic laboratory systems exacerbates antibiotic resistance in Africa. Shutterstock

Antibiotic resistance: why tests are key to arresting the trend

Cédric Yansouni, Matthew P Cheng 4 Oct 2019

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NHI written submissions deadline extended

4 Oct 2019