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1 Mpox fatality, 4 in recovery

13 Jun 2024

Getting to grips with flu

Healthcare

Getting to grips with flu

Issued by Bonitas 17 Apr 2024

Healthcare

Hypertension, diabetes, stroke: they kill more people than infectious diseases and should get a Global Fund

Kaushik Ramaiya 30 Dec 2022

Measure your blood pressure accurately, control it, live longer!

Healthcare

Measure your blood pressure accurately, control it, live longer!

Issued by Stone 10 Aug 2022

Healthcare

The importance of heart health in cancer care

26 Jul 2022

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Education

UFS lifts required vaccination policy

18 Jul 2022

Healthcare

Roche Pharma South Africa announces new partnership

11 Jul 2022

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HR & Management

Can employees refuse to enter a workspace with unvaccinated co-workers?

11 Jul 2022

Remote working is here to stay: what businesses must now consider

Finance

Remote working is here to stay: what businesses must now consider

Dr Richard Malkin 20 Jun 2022

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Healthcare

Influenza cases on the rise in South Africa

9 Jun 2022

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HR & Management

State of Disaster: The end... but not the end for employers

7 Apr 2022

10 tips for flu and Covid-19 vaccines

Healthcare

10 tips for flu and Covid-19 vaccines

Issued by Bonitas 31 Mar 2022

Source: Supplied. Professor Refiloe Masekela, head of UKZN’s Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health.

Healthcare

Children in sub-Saharan Africa dying of Covid-19 at a higher rate than others

20 Jan 2022

A food systems approach: Setting the table to address agriculture's triple challenge

Agriculture

A food systems approach: Setting the table to address agriculture's triple challenge

Issued by Gordon Institute of Business Science 1 Dec 2021

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Healthcare

Covid-19 diabetic patients risk similar to patients without diabetes

14 Oct 2021

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HR & Management

Mandatory vaccine policy: How to introduce one to the workplace

10 Sep 2021

A child gets a dose of the oral polio vaccine. Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images

Healthcare

It's been a year since Africa was declared polio free. But a threat remains

Wayne Howard & Melinda Suchard 27 Aug 2021

6 Covid-19 vaccine myths dispelled by experts

Healthcare

6 Covid-19 vaccine myths dispelled by experts

25 Aug 2021

Healthcare

Sahpra finds deaths are not Covid-19 vaccine-related

23 Aug 2021

Groote Schuur is one of South Africa’s biggest teaching hospitals. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks

Healthcare

Covid-19: A glimpse behind the scenes at Groote Schuur Hospital

James Stent 12 Aug 2021

The best hope of beating the pandemic is to vaccinate as many people as soon as possible. Luca Sola/AFP via Getty Images

Healthcare

Covid-19 herd immunity? It's not going to happen, so what next?

Shabir A Madhi 4 Aug 2021

Healthcare

Healthcare in South Africa: how inequity is contributing to inefficiency

Russell Rensburg 7 Jul 2021

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Healthcare

South Africa's latest Covid-19 lockdown puts spotlight back on vaccination failures

Shabir A Madhi 30 Jun 2021

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Healthcare

Study: HIV and TB co-infection skews Covid-19 T cell response

24 Jun 2021

Professor Glenda Gray. Image supplied

Healthcare

Studies show good response to J&J jab

18 Jun 2021

The Lancet has published the results of an analysis of how critically ill Covid-19 patients did at 64 hospitals in Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Libya, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, and South Africa. Illustration: Lisa Nelson

Healthcare

Africa has a higher death rate among critically ill Covid-19 patients than anywhere else

Elsabé Brits 21 May 2021

Archbishop Desmond Tutu leaves after receiving his coronavirus (Covid19) vaccination in Cape Town, South Africa, May 17, 2021. Reuters/Mike Hutchings

Healthcare

"It's going to change our country": South Africa starts vaccinating over-60s

Akhona Matshoba & Shafiek Tassiem 18 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

Covid-19 vaccination strategies have been affected by supply woes. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC

Healthcare

Ghana's Covid-19 vaccine rollout is struggling to keep up with its great start

Godfred Boafo 29 Apr 2021

Why are South Africans afraid to vaccinate?

Healthcare

Why are South Africans afraid to vaccinate?

22 Apr 2021

#MarketingMasterminds: Gustav Praekelt discusses National Covid-19 WhatsApp Hotline

Marketing & Media

#MarketingMasterminds: Gustav Praekelt discusses National Covid-19 WhatsApp Hotline

Issued by Meta 5 May 2021

TES addresses diversity and inclusion challenges in a post-Covid world

HR & Management

TES addresses diversity and inclusion challenges in a post-Covid world

Jeandie Leone 1 Apr 2021

Covid and flu - Should you still have the flu shot?

Healthcare

Covid and flu - Should you still have the flu shot?

Issued by Bonitas 8 Mar 2021

Kenya’s health minister Mutahi Kagwe next to the country’s first batch of Covid-19 vaccines at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. EPA-EFE/Daniel Irungu

Healthcare

The ins and outs of Kenya's Covid-19 vaccine rollout plan

Catherine Kyobutungi 8 Mar 2021

UIF begins processing new Covid-19 Ters applications

HR & Management

UIF begins processing new Covid-19 Ters applications

5 Mar 2021

Healthcare

More than 67,000 health workers vaccinated so far

1 Mar 2021

The Johnson & Johnson vaccine is effective against the strain of SARS-CoV-2 that is dominant in South Africa. Illustration: Lisa Venter

Healthcare

Johnson & Johnson vaccine looks excellent for South Africa in first published detailed analysis

Michael Cherry 25 Feb 2021

Lizle Louw, partner, Webber Wentzel

Energy & Mining

Can mining houses compel employees to be vaccinated?

Lizle Louw 9 Feb 2021

Study shows that the Novavax vaccine is effective against the dominant variant of Covid-19 in South Africa. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Healthcare

Results from Novavax vaccine trials in the UK and South Africa differ: why, and does it matter?

Ina Skosana 2 Feb 2021

Professor Marc Mendelson

Healthcare

Third wave is on its way, if rapid vaccine roll out falters

26 Jan 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused some 85,000 deaths among South Africans over 60. Image: NIAID-RML (CC BY 2.0)

Healthcare

Nearly 85,000 older South Africans have probably died from Covid-19

James Stent 26 Jan 2021

First 1-million Covid-19 vaccine doses will arrive this month

Healthcare

First 1-million Covid-19 vaccine doses will arrive this month

8 Jan 2021

There are at least three Covid-19 vaccines that have been approved by reputable health regulatory organisations around the world and many countries have begun rolling out vaccines, but not South Africa. Photo: Armin Kübelbeck (CC-BY-SA via Wikimedia Commons)

Healthcare

Health workers demand vaccine rollout

GroundUp staff 5 Jan 2021

Covid-19 shows gender bias: men more likely to need critical care

Healthcare

Covid-19 shows gender bias: men more likely to need critical care

10 Dec 2020

People relying on HIV prevention, care and treatment services have become even more vulnerable because of COVID-19. Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images

Healthcare

Why it's important to keep diagnosing and treating HIV during the Covid-19 pandemic

Kathryn L Hopkins & Glenda Gray 30 Nov 2020

Ethical and legal guidelines for telemedicine

Healthcare

Ethical and legal guidelines for telemedicine

Vanessa Rogers 25 Nov 2020

Some of the researchers in the study are based at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks

Healthcare

High death rate in African Covid-19 intensive care units

James Stent 20 Nov 2020

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Healthcare

Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine trial commences in South Africa

11 Nov 2020