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#OrchidsandOnions: Spar reminds us why we're special with Christmas ad

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Data breach alert: Over 100,000 fake accounts linked to SA grant-fraud claim

Inflationary pressures see alcohol and fast food purchases decline

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Mattel scrambles after Wicked doll packaging links to explicit site

SAB triumphs with 9 Effie Awards, cementing its position as SA's Most Effective Marketer

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SA watchdog stresses reporting side effects to make medicines safer

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The key role of pharmacy clinics in South Africa's evolving healthcare system

Basic Education works to develop school safety guidelines

Basic Education works to develop school safety guidelines

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SAA suspends regional flights

23 Mar 2020

Commuters outside Nairobi Railway Station wash their hands before entering the train station as a preventive measure against COVID-19. Photo by Dennis Sigwe/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Covid-19: a guide to good practice on keeping people well informed

Orkan Okan, Kristine Sørensen & Melanie Messer 23 Mar 2020

New regulations to curb stockpiling, price hikes released

New regulations to curb stockpiling, price hikes released

20 Mar 2020

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More than 600 cases of #Covid-19 in Africa

20 Mar 2020

Blood groups - and their antibodies - are being explored in immunity to SARS-CoV2

Glenda Mary Davison 19 Mar 2020

CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time Reverse Transcriptase (RT)-PCR Diagnostic Panel. Photo: United States Centers for Disease Control via Wikimedia (public domain)

Covid-19: Why "test, test, test" is easier said than done

James Stent & Nathan Geffen 18 Mar 2020

Covid-19 in Africa: fewer cases so far, and more preparation needed

Akebe Luther King Abia 18 Mar 2020

What mattered most to mothers using Nigeria’s free maternal health services was that their babies were healthy. Adekunle Ajayi/Getty Images

What mothers told me about Nigeria's free maternal health services

Anthony Idowu Ajayi 17 Mar 2020

A vendor distributes newspapers wearing a face mask as a preventive measure against the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus in Nairobi, Kenya. Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images

Society's most vulnerable will be hit as Covid-19 cases rise in poorer economies

David Evans & Mead Over 17 Mar 2020

President Cyril Ramaphosa

Covid-19 declared national disaster

16 Mar 2020

The St Louis Red Cross Motor Corps on duty with mask-wearing women holding stretchers at the backs of ambulances during the global flu epidemic, St Louis, Missouri, October 1918.
Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images

South Africa bungled the Spanish flu in 1918. History mustn't repeat itself for Covid-19

Howard Phillips 13 Mar 2020

The symptoms are non-specific and very similar to other viral infections. Shutterstock

#Coronavirus: How big, how bad, and what to look out for

12 Mar 2020

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Six new cases of coronavirus confirmed in SA

11 Mar 2020

Anxiety is part of life, but should not take over your life.
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7 science-based strategies to cope with coronavirus anxiety

Jelena Kecmanovic 11 Mar 2020

#Covid-19, HIV and TB

9 Mar 2020

#Coronavirus: WHO switches to response mode in fighting Covid-19 in Africa

#Coronavirus: WHO switches to response mode in fighting Covid-19 in Africa

6 Mar 2020

Health Minister, Zweli Mkhize

#BREAKINGNEWS: First case of #Covid-19 in South Africa

5 Mar 2020

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom at an Ebola treatment centre in Itipo. Getty images/ Junior D. Kannah

The DRC is on the road to being Ebola free: how it got here

5 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

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

Christopher Robertson & Keith Joiner 4 Mar 2020

A nurse in a hospital checks an IV. Wikimedia Commons

Ghana needs a better policy to guide care for cancer patients

Yakubu Salifu 3 Mar 2020

Health Minister Zweli Mkhize.

Plans to evacuate South Africans from Wuhan City

2 Mar 2020

New report presses for radical rethink on child health

New report presses for radical rethink on child health

20 Feb 2020

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Health facilities on high alert to deal with coronavirus

18 Feb 2020

Alarmed by a rapid spread of Lassa fever, the Nigerian Academy of Science is calling on government to declare a health emergency. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

Lassa fever: why there's a call to declare a health emergency in Nigeria

13 Feb 2020

The spread of false information can have a devastating impact on affected communities. Woohae Cho/Getty Images

False information fuels fear during disease outbreaks: there is an antidote

Marina Joubert 10 Feb 2020

Image source: Getty Images

Joint hearing into Life Esidimeni to be conducted

6 Feb 2020

Many countries regulate e-cigarettes. South Africa should too

Laura Rossouw 6 Feb 2020

IHI 2020 Africa Forum

IHI 2020 Africa Forum

COHSASA 6 Feb 2020

Testing times for China’s healthcare system. Alex Plavevski/EPA

Coronavirus: how health and politics have always been inextricably linked in China

Xun Zhou 5 Feb 2020

Camp beds set up for travelers returning to Germany from China, who will be isolated for two weeks to make sure they don’t have coronavirus.
YANN SCHREIBER/AFP via Getty Images

Quarantines have tried to keep out disease for thousands of years

Leslie S. Leighton 5 Feb 2020

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New regulations to curb stockpiling, price hikes released

New regulations to curb stockpiling, price hikes released

20 Mar 2020

Image source: Getty/Gallo

More than 600 cases of #Covid-19 in Africa

20 Mar 2020

Blood groups - and their antibodies - are being explored in immunity to SARS-CoV2

Glenda Mary Davison 19 Mar 2020

CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time Reverse Transcriptase (RT)-PCR Diagnostic Panel. Photo: United States Centers for Disease Control via Wikimedia (public domain)

Covid-19: Why "test, test, test" is easier said than done

James Stent & Nathan Geffen 18 Mar 2020

Covid-19 in Africa: fewer cases so far, and more preparation needed

Akebe Luther King Abia 18 Mar 2020

What mattered most to mothers using Nigeria’s free maternal health services was that their babies were healthy. Adekunle Ajayi/Getty Images

What mothers told me about Nigeria's free maternal health services

Anthony Idowu Ajayi 17 Mar 2020

A vendor distributes newspapers wearing a face mask as a preventive measure against the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus in Nairobi, Kenya. Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images

Society's most vulnerable will be hit as Covid-19 cases rise in poorer economies

David Evans & Mead Over 17 Mar 2020

President Cyril Ramaphosa

Covid-19 declared national disaster

16 Mar 2020

The St Louis Red Cross Motor Corps on duty with mask-wearing women holding stretchers at the backs of ambulances during the global flu epidemic, St Louis, Missouri, October 1918.
Photo by Underwood Archives/Getty Images

South Africa bungled the Spanish flu in 1918. History mustn't repeat itself for Covid-19

Howard Phillips 13 Mar 2020

The symptoms are non-specific and very similar to other viral infections. Shutterstock

#Coronavirus: How big, how bad, and what to look out for

12 Mar 2020

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Six new cases of coronavirus confirmed in SA

11 Mar 2020

Anxiety is part of life, but should not take over your life.
fizkes/Shutterstock.com

7 science-based strategies to cope with coronavirus anxiety

Jelena Kecmanovic 11 Mar 2020

#Covid-19, HIV and TB

9 Mar 2020

#Coronavirus: WHO switches to response mode in fighting Covid-19 in Africa

#Coronavirus: WHO switches to response mode in fighting Covid-19 in Africa

6 Mar 2020

Health Minister, Zweli Mkhize

#BREAKINGNEWS: First case of #Covid-19 in South Africa

5 Mar 2020

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom at an Ebola treatment centre in Itipo. Getty images/ Junior D. Kannah

The DRC is on the road to being Ebola free: how it got here

5 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

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

Christopher Robertson & Keith Joiner 4 Mar 2020

A nurse in a hospital checks an IV. Wikimedia Commons

Ghana needs a better policy to guide care for cancer patients

Yakubu Salifu 3 Mar 2020

Health Minister Zweli Mkhize.

Plans to evacuate South Africans from Wuhan City

2 Mar 2020

New report presses for radical rethink on child health

New report presses for radical rethink on child health

20 Feb 2020

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Health facilities on high alert to deal with coronavirus

18 Feb 2020

Alarmed by a rapid spread of Lassa fever, the Nigerian Academy of Science is calling on government to declare a health emergency. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images

Lassa fever: why there's a call to declare a health emergency in Nigeria

13 Feb 2020

The spread of false information can have a devastating impact on affected communities. Woohae Cho/Getty Images

False information fuels fear during disease outbreaks: there is an antidote

Marina Joubert 10 Feb 2020

Image source: Getty Images

Joint hearing into Life Esidimeni to be conducted

6 Feb 2020

Many countries regulate e-cigarettes. South Africa should too

Laura Rossouw 6 Feb 2020

IHI 2020 Africa Forum

IHI 2020 Africa Forum

COHSASA 6 Feb 2020

Testing times for China’s healthcare system. Alex Plavevski/EPA

Coronavirus: how health and politics have always been inextricably linked in China

Xun Zhou 5 Feb 2020

Camp beds set up for travelers returning to Germany from China, who will be isolated for two weeks to make sure they don’t have coronavirus.
YANN SCHREIBER/AFP via Getty Images

Quarantines have tried to keep out disease for thousands of years

Leslie S. Leighton 5 Feb 2020

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

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

Folasade Ogunsola 4 Feb 2020

China-bound travellers urged to reconsider plans

31 Jan 2020

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Fear spreads easily. That's what gives the Wuhan coronavirus economic impact

Ilan Noy 30 Jan 2020

Secret histories of drugs - legal and illegal - in southern Africa

Thembisa Waetjen, Julie Parle & Rebecca Hodes 30 Jan 2020

Kenyan health workers from port health services screen inbound travellers for temperatures at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. EPA/Daniel Irungu

Perspectives from Kenya and Ghana on coronavirus preparations

29 Jan 2020

Messages about male circumcision aren't clear: why this is dangerous

Gwinyai Masukume & Witness Mapanga 29 Jan 2020

Over R2m worth of LifeStyles Condoms donated to Dis-Chem Foundation

Over R2m worth of LifeStyles Condoms donated to Dis-Chem Foundation

ACDOCO SA 29 Jan 2020

Wuhan, China, the epicentre of the Novel coronavirus. Image source: Getty/Gallo

SA beefs up surveillance amid coronavirus outbreak

28 Jan 2020

Successful vaccination against measles in childhood should provide lifetime protection. Paul Hennessy/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Explainer: a history of the measles virus and why it's so tenacious

Matthew Ferrari 28 Jan 2020

China in lockdown. EPA

Coronavirus does not look like a 'black swan' event - here are some reasons to be cautiously optimistic

Zheng Wang 27 Jan 2020

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Health implements plan to contain CRE outbreak

23 Jan 2020

Mosquito eggs can remain viable for years even in dry conditions and hatch after heavy persistent rains. Shutterstock

Heavy rains put Kenya at risk of mosquito-borne diseases

Eunice Anyango Owino 23 Jan 2020