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Key facts about cholera

Healthcare

Key facts about cholera

Issued by Bonitas 12 Mar 2024

More than 200-million litres of untreated or partially treated sewage is released into False Bay daily. Photos: Steve Kretzmann / GroundUp

ESG & Sustainability

Failing sewage plants continue to pollute False Bay

Steve Kretzmann 16 Feb 2024

Source: Supplied. Founder of Made To Thrive, Steve Stavs.

Healthcare

#BizTrends2024: Revolutionising mental performance with human-centric algorithms

Steve Stavs 8 Jan 2024

Source: Supplied. Morgan Mkhatshwa, clinical executive of Bonitas Medical Fund.

Healthcare

How we're defying load shedding and its impact on patient medicine regimes -Bonitas

Morgan Mkhatshwa 4 Jul 2023

Africa's understudied human gut microbiomes could be a rich source of therapeutics

Healthcare

Africa's understudied human gut microbiomes could be a rich source of therapeutics

Issued by University of Pretoria 28 Jun 2023

2023 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation finalists announced

Construction & Engineering

2023 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation finalists announced

12 Jun 2023

Image source: Jean-Paul CHASSENET –

Healthcare

RSV on the rise, hospitals urged to prepare for paediatric admissions

23 Mar 2023

Plans to stop raw sewage being pumped into the sea off Cape Town

Construction & Engineering

Plans to stop raw sewage being pumped into the sea off Cape Town

Steve Kretzmann 24 Feb 2023

Antibiotics shortages: What's causing them and how countries can minimise the impact

Healthcare

Antibiotics shortages: What's causing them and how countries can minimise the impact

Kostas Selviaridis and Nonhlanhla Dube 21 Dec 2022

New food technologies could release 80% of the world's farmland back to nature

Agriculture

New food technologies could release 80% of the world's farmland back to nature

Chris D Thomas, Jack Hatfield and Katie Noble 9 Dec 2022

Healthcare

Pivotal local research on antibiotic-resistant infections in hospitals begins in earnest

22 Nov 2022

Are probiotics designed for children giving South African parents more peace of mind?

Healthcare

Are probiotics designed for children giving South African parents more peace of mind?

Issued by Insight Survey 24 Oct 2022

Source: Dr Carolyn Chinsinga.

Healthcare

Real-time data monitoring drives superior hospital-at-home care

Katja Hamilton 9 Sep 2022

Source: Freepik.

Healthcare

Bio-Gate sets its sights on orthopaedics

19 Jul 2022

The state of our rivers is a clear reflection of the health of our environment

ESG & Sustainability

The state of our rivers is a clear reflection of the health of our environment

Dr Eunice Ubomba-Jaswa 6 Jun 2022

Marine life in Western Cape's False Bay is full of chemical pollutants

ESG & Sustainability

Marine life in Western Cape's False Bay is full of chemical pollutants

Leslie Petrik and Cecilia Yejide Ojemaye 2 Jun 2022

N West moves to digital livestock identification, traceability system

Agriculture

N West moves to digital livestock identification, traceability system

20 May 2022

J&J teams up with African scientists to find new drugs to address antimicrobial resistance

Healthcare

J&J teams up with African scientists to find new drugs to address antimicrobial resistance

28 Apr 2022

Pharma Dynamics marks 20-year milestone with sonic art

Healthcare

Pharma Dynamics marks 20-year milestone with sonic art

26 Apr 2022

Talking about TB...

Healthcare

Talking about TB...

Issued by Bonitas 19 Apr 2022

Source: Supplied

Retail

SA food tech startup Mogale Meat debuts cultivated chicken breast

12 Apr 2022

Clean drinking water: Discharging raw sewage into rivers and dams is a national security issue

ESG & Sustainability

Clean drinking water: Discharging raw sewage into rivers and dams is a national security issue

Professor Anthony Turton 28 Mar 2022

Human, animal transmission

Healthcare

Human, animal transmission

Issued by University of Pretoria 7 Mar 2022

Healthcare

Treatment of Covid with antibiotics could add to the problem of drug resistance

Adam Mustapha 17 Jan 2022

Swapping probiotics for antibiotics: How it could be a game changer for chickens, and us

Agriculture

Swapping probiotics for antibiotics: How it could be a game changer for chickens, and us

3 Dec 2021

Healthcare

South Africa needs to tighten controls on substandard and counterfeit medicines. Here's how

David R. Katerere 25 Nov 2021

Source: ©Mark Bowden

Healthcare

First non-invasive benign prostate procedure performed in SA

11 Nov 2021

Source: Getty/Gallo

Healthcare

Water, power cuts and neglect are taking their toll on South Africa's top hospitals

Daynia Ballot 8 Jul 2021

A health worker examines a child for signs of trachoma Joe McNally/Getty Images

Healthcare

How The Gambia beat trachoma, an infection that causes blindness

Musa Mutali 7 Jun 2021

Healthcare

How to manage risk against medical injury claims

Vanessa Rogers 24 May 2021

Fungal infections might be dangerous to Covid-19 patients with severe symptoms in ICU

Healthcare

Fungal infections might be dangerous to Covid-19 patients with severe symptoms in ICU

14 May 2021

Webinar sheds light on holistic management of grapevines

Agriculture

Webinar sheds light on holistic management of grapevines

Carin Venter 12 Mar 2021

Credit: Eat Just

Retail

Singapore approves cell-cultured chicken bites - who will be the first to try them?

Chris Bryant 7 Dec 2020

Is Covid-19 a bacteria or a virus? Affinity Health explains the differences

Healthcare

Is Covid-19 a bacteria or a virus? Affinity Health explains the differences

Issued by Affinity Health 26 Nov 2020

Dr Bha Ndungane-Tlakula, country medical director, Pfizer South Africa

Healthcare

Antimicrobial resistance - a threat to modern health

20 Nov 2020

Antimicrobial resistance is a real threat.
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Healthcare

East African countries should prioritise their essential medicines for drug registration

Allyson M Pollock, Moses Ocan & Petra Sevcikova 19 Nov 2020

UKZN’s Emeritus Professor Anna Coutsoudis

Healthcare

SA study recommends changes to PMTCT guidelines

10 Nov 2020

Professor Anneke Hesseling

Healthcare

Trial recommends shorter treatment time for less severe TB in children

30 Oct 2020

Illustration of Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria. GettyImages

Healthcare

Drug-resistant gonorrhoea is a growing threat: a South African case study

Remco Peters & Liteboho Daniel Maduna 28 Oct 2020

The war against plastic is distracting us from pollution that cannot be seen

ESG & Sustainability

The war against plastic is distracting us from pollution that cannot be seen

Thomas Stanton, Matthew Johnson and Paul Kay 27 Oct 2020

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Marketing & Media

The power of storytelling in 2020

Cindy-Lee Minnaar 23 Oct 2020

New biosecurity initiative to pay dividends to cattle farmers

Agriculture

New biosecurity initiative to pay dividends to cattle farmers

22 Oct 2020

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Healthcare

Antibiotic resistance: cheap diagnostic test could be a saviour

Lara Marks & Ankur Mutreja 11 Aug 2020

Why Africa needs more antibiotic trials involving children

Healthcare

Why Africa needs more antibiotic trials involving children

Pui-Ying Iroh Tam 4 Aug 2020

Antibacterial activewear? The claim is just as absurd as it sounds

Retail

Antibacterial activewear? The claim is just as absurd as it sounds

Catherine Burke 20 Jul 2020

Researchers identify the impact of bacterial co-infections and antimicrobial resistance in Covid-19

Healthcare

Researchers identify the impact of bacterial co-infections and antimicrobial resistance in Covid-19

12 Jun 2020