Covid-19 pneumonia creates breathing difficulties leading to low blood oxygen levels (hypoxaemia). Unable to get enough oxygen to supply vital organs, patients with hypoxaemia are at very high risk of death...
Hamish Graham & Adegoke Falade 10 May 2021
A brand new state-of-the-art Simulation and Clinical Skills Unit (SCSU) will officially open at Stellenbosch University's (SU) Tygerberg Campus in Cape Town today...
Developed and presented by Henley Business School Africa, the unique six-week course is designed to help medical doctors especially transition to virtual medicine and digitise their practices in the process...
Henley Business School 20 Apr 2021
Despite the many challenges of 2020, healthcare organisations have gained considerable insights and experience that will transform the sector well into the future...
Wayne Miller 15 Apr 2021
The University of Pretoria's Student Counselling Unit and DotModus designed and built a first-of-its-kind counselling chatbot for university students as part of their Student Counselling Unit-Bot (Scu-B) initiative...
DotModus 13 Apr 2021
Dr Msandeni Chiume Kayuni found herself in the middle of a supply crisis as Covid-19 spread to Africa in April 2020...
Rebecca Richards-Kortum & Theresa Mkandawire 31 Mar 2021
Water is the foundation of life making it a perfect breeding ground for infection, microbial growth and antibiotic resistant pathogens. Water, also being the foundation for dialysis, plays the most important role for successful patient care...
GO Content Lab 3 Mar 2021
Professor Stephen Roche, head of the orthopaedics divisions at the University of Cape Town (UCT), and a team from Groote Schuur Hospital recently performed a mixed reality shoulder replacement surgery...
In recent years there have been several major innovations in genetics. One prominent example is Crispr-Cas9...,
Bonginkosi Shozi & Marietjie Botes 16 Feb 2021
The Western Cape Government Health's Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Drone Rescue Project team was recently deployed to assist with the first drone rescue missions...
Sibongile Mongadi and Kathryn Malherbe have broken down barriers and added tremendous value to the scientific community with healthcare innovations...
Immersive virtual reality (VR) is becoming an increasingly valuable tool for nursing students to hone their skills, but cybersickness can be a hindrance to some of them...
Globally, healthcare organisations have accelerated adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) with the ones still implementing frameworks planning to go live within 24 months...
Henry Adams 19 Jan 2021
Launched in February 2020, Play Zuri Health Limited is a mobile health service that delivers first level medical services to its users through their mobile devices via apps, WAP, and SMS...
Papama Nyati 19 Jan 2021
