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South African healthcare earns global recognition

Source: Supplied. Bada Pharasi, chief executive officer of the Innovative Pharmaceutical Association of South Africa (Ipasa).

Research and innovation key to safeguarding SA’s health resiliency

27 Jun 2024

How environmental toxins and pollution affect our health, by Medshield

How environmental toxins and pollution affect our health, by Medshield

25 Jun 2024

Tools like the WHO checklist can lead to better surgical outcomes in countries with limited resources. Shutterstock

What African countries can do about ensuring safer surgery

Isabella Epiu 27 Mar 2019

South African doctors are giving antibiotics to healthy patients, a new study revealed. Image source: Gallo/Getty

Undercover researchers went into doctors' rooms. You won't believe what they found.

Joan van Dyk 25 Mar 2019

Chronic kidney disease needs to be redefined

Chronic kidney disease needs to be redefined

18 Mar 2019

Strand ahoy! Image Wizard

Human Genome Project: new alcohol abuse study could help us finally unlock secrets to beating genetic diseases

Alasdair Mackenzie 18 Mar 2019

Reducing salt intake can save lives. Shutterstock

Salt is bad for you: but how it affects your body is still frontier science

Alta Schutte & Michél Strauss 15 Mar 2019

Professor Steve Kerrigan

New drug shows promise for treating sepsis

11 Mar 2019

Dedicated cannabis expo set for Cape Town in April

Dedicated cannabis expo set for Cape Town in April

11 Mar 2019

Health workers in Liberia at the height of the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak. Ahmed Jallanzo/EPA

Ebola in the DRC: the race is on between research and the virus

Yap Boum, Jean-Jacques Muyembe & Sabue Mulangu 8 Mar 2019

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), shown here as tiny purple spheres, causes the disease known as AIDS. Mark Ellisman and Tom Deerinck, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research

A cure for HIV? Feasible but not yet realised

Allison Webel 8 Mar 2019

Anti-rejection drugs increase skin cancer risk in multiple kidney transplant patients

6 Mar 2019

Photo: Kim Cloete

Community-wide HIV prevention strategy can reduce new infections

Kim Cloete 5 Mar 2019

Andrii Vodolazhskyi/Shutterstock

Cancer growth in the body could originate from a single cell - target it to revolutionise treatment

Michael P Lisanti 21 Feb 2019

Will innovative trends help to further boost SA's vitamins industry?

Will innovative trends help to further boost SA's vitamins industry?

Insight Survey 18 Feb 2019

Antibody could increase cure rate for blood, immune disorders

Antibody could increase cure rate for blood, immune disorders

14 Feb 2019

Professor Bernardo Rapoport

Breakthroughs in immuno-oncology provide new treatment options

13 Feb 2019

Post-surgical death stats higher than TB, malaria & HiV combined

Post-surgical death stats higher than TB, malaria & HiV combined

7 Feb 2019

Set of genes predicts severity of dengue

Set of genes predicts severity of dengue

4 Feb 2019

Is medicine cure? Treatment? Healing? Understanding? Or a bit of all those things. Kenishiroti/Shutterstock

What is medicine? Why it's so important to answer this question

1 Feb 2019

New osteomyelitis treatment without antibiotics

New osteomyelitis treatment without antibiotics

31 Jan 2019

Global evidence suggests that alcohol advertisements increase adolescents’ favourable attitudes towards drinking. Shutterstock

How easy access to alcohol, and adverts, affect women in South Africa

Leslie London & Neo Morojele 30 Jan 2019

Personalised medicine aims to tailor treatment according to each person’s genetic makeup. Shutterstock

Why African countries need to give genomic research a major boost

Lamech Mwapagha 30 Jan 2019

Construction starts on SU's Biomedical Research Institute

28 Jan 2019

Are genetics a factor in individual injury risk profiles?

Are genetics a factor in individual injury risk profiles?

24 Jan 2019

Risk of suicide - as well as depression - found in the genome

Risk of suicide - as well as depression - found in the genome

24 Jan 2019

Yale scientists examine how an immune system protein helps suppress HIV

Yale scientists examine how an immune system protein helps suppress HIV

Ziba Kashef 23 Jan 2019

Gregory Scherrer and his collaborators have identified in mice an ensemble of cells that seems to specifically function as an on-off switch for pain aversion.
Paul Sakuma

Researchers discover the brain cells that make pain unpleasant

18 Jan 2019

New sensor monitors blood flow after vascular surgery

17 Jan 2019

Why does malaria recur? How pieces of the puzzle are slowly being filled in

Miles B Markus 17 Jan 2019

Around 18% of previously treated TB cases are drug resistant. Shutterstock

How we used computers to figure out drugs that can beat drug-resistant TB

Ruben Cloete 16 Jan 2019

Professor Sally-Ann Cryan

Breakthrough in TB treatment

8 Jan 2019

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Tools like the WHO checklist can lead to better surgical outcomes in countries with limited resources. Shutterstock

What African countries can do about ensuring safer surgery

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Joan van Dyk 25 Mar 2019

Chronic kidney disease needs to be redefined

Chronic kidney disease needs to be redefined

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Human Genome Project: new alcohol abuse study could help us finally unlock secrets to beating genetic diseases

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Dedicated cannabis expo set for Cape Town in April

Dedicated cannabis expo set for Cape Town in April

11 Mar 2019

Health workers in Liberia at the height of the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak. Ahmed Jallanzo/EPA

Ebola in the DRC: the race is on between research and the virus

Yap Boum, Jean-Jacques Muyembe & Sabue Mulangu 8 Mar 2019

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), shown here as tiny purple spheres, causes the disease known as AIDS. Mark Ellisman and Tom Deerinck, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research

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Allison Webel 8 Mar 2019

Anti-rejection drugs increase skin cancer risk in multiple kidney transplant patients

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Photo: Kim Cloete

Community-wide HIV prevention strategy can reduce new infections

Kim Cloete 5 Mar 2019

Andrii Vodolazhskyi/Shutterstock

Cancer growth in the body could originate from a single cell - target it to revolutionise treatment

Michael P Lisanti 21 Feb 2019

Will innovative trends help to further boost SA's vitamins industry?

Will innovative trends help to further boost SA's vitamins industry?

Insight Survey 18 Feb 2019

Antibody could increase cure rate for blood, immune disorders

Antibody could increase cure rate for blood, immune disorders

14 Feb 2019

Professor Bernardo Rapoport

Breakthroughs in immuno-oncology provide new treatment options

13 Feb 2019

Post-surgical death stats higher than TB, malaria & HiV combined

Post-surgical death stats higher than TB, malaria & HiV combined

7 Feb 2019

Set of genes predicts severity of dengue

Set of genes predicts severity of dengue

4 Feb 2019

Is medicine cure? Treatment? Healing? Understanding? Or a bit of all those things. Kenishiroti/Shutterstock

What is medicine? Why it's so important to answer this question

1 Feb 2019

New osteomyelitis treatment without antibiotics

New osteomyelitis treatment without antibiotics

31 Jan 2019

Global evidence suggests that alcohol advertisements increase adolescents’ favourable attitudes towards drinking. Shutterstock

How easy access to alcohol, and adverts, affect women in South Africa

Leslie London & Neo Morojele 30 Jan 2019

Personalised medicine aims to tailor treatment according to each person’s genetic makeup. Shutterstock

Why African countries need to give genomic research a major boost

Lamech Mwapagha 30 Jan 2019

Construction starts on SU's Biomedical Research Institute

28 Jan 2019

Are genetics a factor in individual injury risk profiles?

Are genetics a factor in individual injury risk profiles?

24 Jan 2019

Risk of suicide - as well as depression - found in the genome

Risk of suicide - as well as depression - found in the genome

24 Jan 2019

Yale scientists examine how an immune system protein helps suppress HIV

Yale scientists examine how an immune system protein helps suppress HIV

Ziba Kashef 23 Jan 2019

Gregory Scherrer and his collaborators have identified in mice an ensemble of cells that seems to specifically function as an on-off switch for pain aversion.
Paul Sakuma

Researchers discover the brain cells that make pain unpleasant

18 Jan 2019

New sensor monitors blood flow after vascular surgery

17 Jan 2019

Why does malaria recur? How pieces of the puzzle are slowly being filled in

Miles B Markus 17 Jan 2019

Around 18% of previously treated TB cases are drug resistant. Shutterstock

How we used computers to figure out drugs that can beat drug-resistant TB

Ruben Cloete 16 Jan 2019

Professor Sally-Ann Cryan

Breakthrough in TB treatment

8 Jan 2019

#BizTrends2019: How AI is reshaping pharmaceutical R&D

#BizTrends2019: How AI is reshaping pharmaceutical R&D

7 Jan 2019

An image of a string adhesion between the liver and the intestine. The cell nuclei are stained white.
Jonathan Tsai

Surgical adhesions can be treated, prevented in mice

Krista Conger 4 Jan 2019

Michelle Monje and her colleagues found that the chemotherapy drug methotrexate can affect three major types of brain cells, resulting in a phenomenon known as "chemo brain."
Steve Fisch

Study: Understanding chemo brain

Erin Digitale 2 Jan 2019

Widespread, occasional use of antibiotics in US linked with resistance

Widespread, occasional use of antibiotics in US linked with resistance

19 Dec 2018

There’s a significant variation in pain sensitivity and tolerance. Shutterstock

Unpacking pain: what causes it and why it's hard to measure

Antonia Wadley & Peter Kamerman 19 Dec 2018

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#BestofBiz 2018: Healthcare

18 Dec 2018

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Those designer babies everyone is freaking out about - it's not likely to happen

A Cecile JW Janssens 14 Dec 2018

Professor Musa Mhlanga

Unravelling how immune genes work

13 Dec 2018

Necsa board replaced

10 Dec 2018

Genetics may be the key to new epilepsy therapies

Genetics may be the key to new epilepsy therapies

10 Dec 2018