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Healthcare

Blood types decoded: How they impact emergency care

3 Mar 2025

Emergency Medicine

Western Cape EMS responds to record 69,000 calls during festive season

27 Jan 2025

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Travel

Bryte Travel Index 2024: Key trends shaping the road ahead for SA travellers

21 Nov 2024

Understanding your medical aid benefits is crucial to avoid unexpected issues, says Medshield

Medical Aid

Understanding your medical aid benefits is crucial to avoid unexpected issues, says Medshield

Issued by Stone 1 Oct 2024

Source: UCT News. Salome Maswime head of WHO’s Collaborating Centre for Integrated Clinical Care. Photo Lerato Maduna.

Healthcare

Salome Maswime elected to lead WHO’s collaborating centre

12 Sep 2024

Advancements in digital technology helps improve healthcare access in South Africa

Hospital Groups

Advancements in digital technology helps improve healthcare access in South Africa

Issued by Intercare 6 Nov 2023

Source: WHO. Time is running out to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe if fuel and life-saving health and humanitarian supplies cannot be urgently delivered to the Gaza Strip amidst the complete blockade.

Healthcare

Healthcare crisis at breaking point in Gaza

Katja Hamilton 19 Oct 2023

MomConnect celebrates 9 years of transforming maternal health and unveils new symptom-check feature

Women's Health

MomConnect celebrates 9 years of transforming maternal health and unveils new symptom-check feature

Issued by A Better World Network 15 Sep 2023

Healthcare

HPCSA denounces assault on paramedics in Tshwane

26 Jul 2023

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Hospital Groups

Netcare Blaauwberg's level II trauma status triumph!

19 Jul 2023

Healthcare

Chest pain and respiratory complaints top EMS call-out list

13 Sep 2022

Driver training, testing can reduce unemployment rate in the transport sector

Transport

Driver training, testing can reduce unemployment rate in the transport sector

16 Mar 2022

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Hospital Groups

Alberton's new hospital taking shape

6 Dec 2021

Reynhardt Uys, chief experience officer, Immersion Group

Trends

#BizTrends2021: Healthcare innovation in 2021 and beyond

Reynhardt Uys 8 Jan 2021

This electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (round gold objects) emerging from the surface of cells cultured in a lab. Image: NIAID-RML (CC BY 2.0)

Covid-19

Covid-19: How a Cape Town project saved many lives

Neal David 2 Sep 2020

A nurse participates in the drill to test their system capabilities for the Covid-19 coronavirus mass patients influx at the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi.

Covid-19

Covid-19 exposes weaknesses in Kenya's healthcare system. And what can be done

Abdu Mohiddin & Marleen Temmerman 29 Jul 2020

Queue of seated outpatients, waiting patiently inside a provincial hospital corridor in Port Elizabeth. Shutterstock

Emergency Medicine

Why people don't get emergency medical care in time: a study in South Africa

Justine Ina Davies 13 Jul 2020

Champions of Science Africa Innovation Challenge announced

Awards

Champions of Science Africa Innovation Challenge announced

5 Sep 2019

Public Health

Migration and health: what southern Africa needs to do to plug the gaps

2 Aug 2019

New programme to prevent maternal deaths

Obstetrics & Gynaecology

New programme to prevent maternal deaths

21 Dec 2018

The country's state emergency services are facing staff and vehicle shortages, leaving provinces with no choice but to outsource these critical services. (Christopher Sebela / Flickr)

Public Health

If you need an ambulance this festive season, what are your chances of getting one?

Nelisiwe Msomi 18 Dec 2018

A small hospital in Wakiso district in the central region of Uganda. Shutterstock

Public Health

People across Africa have to travel far to get to a hospital. We worked out how far

Paul Ouma & Emelda Okiro 14 Sep 2018

#OnTheBigScreen: Winnie the Pooh, the mother of science fiction, and a new YA novel adaptation

Film

#OnTheBigScreen: Winnie the Pooh, the mother of science fiction, and a new YA novel adaptation

Daniel Dercksen 3 Aug 2018

NHI open for public comment soon

NHI

NHI open for public comment soon

8 Jun 2018

Photo: Dalton Dingelstad

Public Health

Family physicians are improving healthcare in South Africa's rural communities

Bob Mash and Klaus von Pressentin 2 May 2018

Mediclinic warns of employment scam

Hospital Groups

Mediclinic warns of employment scam

5 Feb 2018

What the HPCSA says about room sharing

Healthcare

What the HPCSA says about room sharing

23 Oct 2017

HPCSA: Emergency services must ensure staff is registered

Emergency Medicine

HPCSA: Emergency services must ensure staff is registered

11 Aug 2017

Satellifes at night.

Design

Purposefully recolouring township satellites with Grey

Leigh Andrews 4 Apr 2017

Are primary clinics better than nothing to prevent mother and infant mortality?

Public Health

Are primary clinics better than nothing to prevent mother and infant mortality?

15 Dec 2016

Technological partnership speeds up emergency response

Emergency Medicine

Technological partnership speeds up emergency response

10 Dec 2015

Bidders line up for distressed Evraz

Manufacturing

Bidders line up for distressed Evraz

29 Jul 2015

Arcelor puts plant in care as steel sector reels

Manufacturing

Arcelor puts plant in care as steel sector reels

27 Jul 2015

Emergency Medicine

New training methods for disaster management

9 Jun 2015

State-of-the-art medical simulation lab in aid of clinical education

Higher Education

State-of-the-art medical simulation lab in aid of clinical education

4 Sep 2014

Managing diabetic children in class

Noncommunicable diseases

Managing diabetic children in class

19 Feb 2014

NSPCA receives R500,000 through MySchool MyVillage MyPlanet

ESG

NSPCA receives R500,000 through MySchool MyVillage MyPlanet

10 Apr 2013

Public Health

Guard against heat exhaustion during high temperatures

29 Jan 2013

Hospital Groups

HPCSA repudiates Botswana training course

21 Dec 2012

Public Health

Thousands of healthcare practitioners struck from HPCSA register

5 Nov 2012

Public Health

'Doctor' an ambulance assistant

18 Oct 2012

Obstetrics & Gynaecology

KZN tackles maternal deaths

8 Jun 2012

Healthcare

Study finds most paramedics are victims of abuse in the workplace

Leslie Shepherd 30 Dec 2011

Emergency care personnel, practicing with fraudulent certificates

Public Health

Emergency care personnel, practicing with fraudulent certificates

30 Aug 2011

Public Health

Saving 11 million African lives...

30 Jul 2010

Emergency Medicine

HPCSA on issue of review of BAA and CAA training courses

7 Jun 2010

Public Health

Arrive Alive and Netcare 911... working together to keep Easter safe for road users

1 Apr 2010