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SA to deploy healthcare workers to help contain Ebola
South Africa has deployed its first batch of trained healthcare professionals to work in Sierra Leone, in an effort to help contain the spread of Ebola Disease Virus in the country and other parts of West Africa... read more>>



Food Crisis
Foot-and-mouth eats up farming
Agriculture in this country faces economic obliteration by a "bio-security threat" if steps are not taken to eradicate a fast-spreading animal disease that has already cost the country R15 billion over the past three years... read more>>
Hospital Groups
A Centre of Excellence can mean excellence for all
By definition, the term Centres of Excellence (COE), refers to a team or shared facility that provides research, best practice and training in a specific medical field... read more>>
Medical Research
The thoughts behind marketing response
Neuromarketing as a discipline is not a new one, but has been relatively underutilised in the South African marketing landscape as a tool for better formulating, analysing and understanding marketing campaigns and their effectiveness... read more>>
New research agreement focuses on harnessing the immune system to treat cancer and other diseases
Before the discovery of the role of how a specific pair of proteins contributed to tumor growth in cancer, immunotherapy was treated with skepticism... read more>>
Increased impulsivity and hostility linked to recreational marijuana use in young adults

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While the negative effects of chronic marijuana use are being documented in a growing body of research, it has been unclear whether recreational use of the substance produces problematic effects in everyday life... read more>>
Oncology
Early detection and treatment key to beating male cancers
The few thousand men running the streets of Johannesburg in the sixth Hollard Daredevil Run on 30 January 2015, wearing nothing more than purple speedos and their pride is a ballsy reminder of the important race against male cancers... read more>>
Sports Science
UCT PhD graduate evaluates safer rugby through BokSmart
Wanting to complete a PhD that not only provided novel information to the world but also had a direct application and improved rugby player safety led University of Cape Town PhD graduate, James Craig Brown to the thesis, Safer rugby through BokSmart? Evaluation of a nationwide injury prevention programme for rugby union in South Africa... read more>>
Government news
Zuma to lead delegation to World Economic Forum
President Jacob Zuma will lead a South African delegation of Cabinet Ministers and business leaders to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, from 20-24 January 2015... read more>>
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Pharmaceutical Commercial Excellence MENA Congress
Maarefah Management - 16 Feb 2015 to 19 Feb 2015 Dubai

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