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SAHIA to host two landmark health informatics events in October

SAHIA to host two landmark health informatics events in OctoberSouth African Health Informatics Association

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SA unites with gold ribbons to spotlight childhood cancer

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South Africa's AI Diagnostics and hearX Foundation selected for Turn.io’s 2025 Chat for Health & AI Accelerator

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Revolutionary anti-HIV injection may redefine SA’s public health response

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Nigerian doctors take up strike action over wages and welfare

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Women-led Alignd attracts E Squared investment

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Chronically online: South Africa’s digital dilemma for sexual healthJessica Gbedemah

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How climate change is rewriting the skincare playbookJustine Liebenberg

Cansa provides hope and care for children and teens with cancer

Cansa provides hope and care for children and teens with cancer

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Vector control targeting the larval phase of the mosquito’s life cycle can be successful. Shutterstock

Killing mosquito larvae can contribute towards malaria elimination

Tiaan de Jager & Taneshka Kruger 30 May 2019

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GBS rapid test improves maternal health in the developing world

29 May 2019

The bushes surrounding the clinic in Buntingville are so overgrown that the clinic looks disused. But it is used, and it’s badly under-resourced. Photo: Yamkela Ntshongwana

Nurses in village clinic buy medical essentials with their own money

Yamkela Ntshongwana 29 May 2019

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UCT spearheads new technologies for life-saving cancer treatment

28 May 2019

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New autism research on single neurons suggests signalling problems in brain circuits

28 May 2019

Nestlé launches innovation challenge in 6 African countries

Nestlé launches innovation challenge in 6 African countries

28 May 2019

Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge on his way to wining the London Marathon in April 2019. EPA-EFE/Facundo Arrizabalaga

Kipchoge's marathon success remains a mystery: some clues from my research

Vincent O Onywera 27 May 2019

Former head of the Gauteng department of health Barney Selebano (pictured) may lose his license to practise medicine after an inqury into his involvement in the Life Esidimeni deaths in September. (Joyrene Kramer, Section27)

Whatever happened to the doctors & nurses involved in the #LifeEsidimeni tragedy

Nelisiwe Msomi 27 May 2019

Are natural and healthy choices keeping away the flu?

Are natural and healthy choices keeping away the flu?

Insight Survey 27 May 2019

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Tackling the issue of race in research

24 May 2019

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#AfricaMonth: Saving trauma patients

24 May 2019

Can precision health transform primary care? Look to Stanford's Humanwide pilot

Can precision health transform primary care? Look to Stanford's Humanwide pilot

Lloyd Minor 23 May 2019

Health workers burying a child who died of Ebola in the DRC’s North Kivu province. Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/EPA

Radical ideas are needed to break the DRC's Ebola outbreak. Here are some

Mosoka Fallah 23 May 2019

How to kick-start an FMCG product in the pharmaceutical space

How to kick-start an FMCG product in the pharmaceutical space

Eben Esterhuizen 23 May 2019

L'Oréal teams up with Alibaba for AI-based app targeting acne sufferers

L'Oréal teams up with Alibaba for AI-based app targeting acne sufferers

22 May 2019

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Who wants to live forever? It's a matter of maintenance

Nicci Botha 22 May 2019

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AI better at detecting lung cancer than humans

21 May 2019

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HPCSA welcomes SIU investigation

21 May 2019

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4 new WHO goodwill ambassadors appointed

21 May 2019

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How to make health news interesting - without overselling the claims

Petroc Sumner & Rachel Adams 20 May 2019

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Crackdown on doctors' practices in Nelson Mandela Bay

17 May 2019

Getting South Africans to buy into the next big thing in medicine

Getting South Africans to buy into the next big thing in medicine

Nelisiwe Msomi 17 May 2019

A health worker looks on at an Ebola transit centre in Beni in North Kivu province, DRC. Hugh Kinsella Cunningham/EPA

Ebola survivors can lose their eyesight. What we're doing to prevent it

Steven Yeh, Jean-Claude Mwanza & Jessica Shantha 16 May 2019

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Corporations are funding health and nutrition research -- here's why you should be worried

Sarah Steele & Lejla Sarcevic 15 May 2019

5 things to know before entering the pharmaceutical market

5 things to know before entering the pharmaceutical market

Eben Esterhuizen 15 May 2019

Lidia Montero

Simple errors cause major lab risks

14 May 2019

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SU comments on study perpetuating racial stereotyping

14 May 2019

A six-month-old who is infected with measles in Madagascar, March 2019. AP Photo/Laetitia Bezain

Road to measles elimination is predictable, but can be rocky

Matthew Ferrari & Amy Winter 13 May 2019

Sapics 2019 puts the spotlight on healthcare supply chain challenges

Sapics 2019 puts the spotlight on healthcare supply chain challenges

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Making the best food choices for HIV and TB

Making the best food choices for HIV and TB

Association for Dietetics in South Africa 9 May 2019

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Vector control targeting the larval phase of the mosquito’s life cycle can be successful. Shutterstock

Killing mosquito larvae can contribute towards malaria elimination

Tiaan de Jager & Taneshka Kruger 30 May 2019

Nestlé launches innovation challenge in 6 African countries

Nestlé launches innovation challenge in 6 African countries

28 May 2019

Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge on his way to wining the London Marathon in April 2019. EPA-EFE/Facundo Arrizabalaga

Kipchoge's marathon success remains a mystery: some clues from my research

Vincent O Onywera 27 May 2019

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#AfricaMonth: Saving trauma patients

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