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Tom Osborn on youth leadership, mental well-being

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SA’s world-first Chrome extension takes on harmful AI beauty standards

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Non-medical use of prescription drugs among skilled workers: a pilot study in Nigeria

Samson Femi Agberotimi 25 Jun 2020

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Balancing privacy with public health: how well is South Africa doing?

Michael Sean Pepper & Marietjie Botes 25 Jun 2020

Study on Covid-19 antibodies in children

Study on Covid-19 antibodies in children

24 Jun 2020

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How Covid-19 is fast-tracking progress in air freight supply chains

24 Jun 2020

Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane, Rev. Dr Elizabeth Mamisa Chabula-Nxiweni, Minister of Health Dr Zweli Mkhize, VWSA Chairman and Managing Director Thomas Schaefer, Eastern Cape MEC of Health Sindiswa Gomba, and Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber CEO Nomkhita Mona.

Eastern Cape field hospital to boost Covid-19 fight

24 Jun 2020

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SA's first Covid-19 vaccine trial starts

23 Jun 2020

A child receives a vaccine against Ebola from a nurse in Goma on August 7, 2019. AUGUSTIN WAMENYA/AFP via Getty Images

The coping mechanisms the DRC is putting in place as it faces Ebola, measles and Covid-19

Yap Boum 23 Jun 2020

NWU engineers walk away with international award for tackling Covid-19

NWU engineers walk away with international award for tackling Covid-19

North-West University (NWU) 23 Jun 2020

Nomzamo Mngupane has been a nurse for six years. She said there have been staff shortages since 2018 and it has got worse since the Covid-19 pandemic. Photo: Ashraf Hendricks

Nurses picket over staff shortages at False Bay Hospital

Ashraf Hendricks 22 Jun 2020

'A food safety crisis now would bring SA's medical sector to its knees'

'A food safety crisis now would bring SA's medical sector to its knees'

22 Jun 2020

Health Minister Zweli Mkhize

Longer lockdown won't delay peak - Mkhize

22 Jun 2020

Pharma Dynamics CEO kicks off Tutudesk Covid-19 Challenge with R1.2m pledge

Pharma Dynamics CEO kicks off Tutudesk Covid-19 Challenge with R1.2m pledge

22 Jun 2020

How is Covid-19 boosting SA's cough, cold and flu remedies market?

How is Covid-19 boosting SA's cough, cold and flu remedies market?

Insight Survey 22 Jun 2020

Counselling Hub boosts mental healthcare response during Covid-19 crisis

Counselling Hub boosts mental healthcare response during Covid-19 crisis

19 Jun 2020

Poor mental health is as big a threat as poor physical health in the time of corona

Poor mental health is as big a threat as poor physical health in the time of corona

19 Jun 2020

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How deadly is Covid-19?

GroundUp and Spotlight staff 19 Jun 2020

SA youth exhibiting strain amidst surging Covid-19 cases

SA youth exhibiting strain amidst surging Covid-19 cases

Ask Afrika 19 Jun 2020

South Africa must redirect efforts to managing the high-risk social spaces such as public transport. Getty Images

South Africa can get Covid-19 under control if it blocks the routes that enable transmission

Alex van den Heever, Imraan Valodia, Lucy Allais, Martin Veller, Shabir Madhi & Willem Daniel Franco 18 Jun 2020

In South Africa, both HIV and pre-eclampsia are a burden to maternal health. GettyImages

HIV and high blood pressure in pregnancy: we're tracing the connections

Sayuri Padayachee 18 Jun 2020

A security guard checks the body temperature of a motorcyclist as a preventive measure. Risa Krisadhi/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

So you think investing in fever screening can curb the spread of Covid-19? Think again

Andrea Fuller & Duncan Mitchell 17 Jun 2020

Steroid shows promise in treating serious Covid-19 cases

Steroid shows promise in treating serious Covid-19 cases

17 Jun 2020

Call for action to address malnutrition in all its forms

Call for action to address malnutrition in all its forms

Association for Dietetics in South Africa 17 Jun 2020

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The new architectural frontier: buildings and their microbiomes

Jako Nice 15 Jun 2020

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

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

12 Jun 2020

Kim Whitaker, founder of Ubuntu Beds

#StartupStory: Ubuntu Beds provides healthcare workers with a place to lay their head

Nicci Botha 12 Jun 2020

Collaboration key to helping pharma supply chains weather Covid-19 storm

Collaboration key to helping pharma supply chains weather Covid-19 storm

11 Jun 2020

Phola Kula, process engineer, Biodx

#YouthMonth: Engineering her way to the top

11 Jun 2020

Worrying trend as check ups drop off during pandemic

Worrying trend as check ups drop off during pandemic

11 Jun 2020

Mary-Ann Davies

TB, HIV less likely to cause Covid-19 death than other comorbidities

Nicci Botha 10 Jun 2020

South Africa moved into level three of a five-tier lockdown on June 1, 2020. Michele Spatari / AFP via Getty Images

South Africa must adopt a localised response to Covid-19. What it would look like

Kaymarlin Govender, Ayesha BM Kharsany, Gavin George & Sean Beckett 9 Jun 2020

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A pharmacy store in Ogun State, southwest Nigeria. Photo by Pius Utomi Ekpei /AFP via Getty Images

Non-medical use of prescription drugs among skilled workers: a pilot study in Nigeria

Samson Femi Agberotimi 25 Jun 2020

A child receives a vaccine against Ebola from a nurse in Goma on August 7, 2019. AUGUSTIN WAMENYA/AFP via Getty Images

The coping mechanisms the DRC is putting in place as it faces Ebola, measles and Covid-19

Yap Boum 23 Jun 2020

Anopheles Stephensi, Sem. Photo By BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Breakthrough: microbe found to block the transmission of malaria

Jeremy Herren 9 Jun 2020

Lagos state officials disinfecting roads in the state. Shutterstock

Coronavirus: what Nigeria can do post lockdown

Doyin Ogunyemi 3 Jun 2020

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