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#See: Africa Tech Week Awards 2025 celebrates innovation

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#See: Hertex HAUS reopens reimagined Bellville Showroom

#See: Hertex HAUS reopens reimagined Bellville Showroom

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African Bioinformatics Institute looks to revolutionise continent’s research, infrastructure

Motsoaledi hails historic Pandemic Pact at G20 Health Summit

Motsoaledi hails historic Pandemic Pact at G20 Health Summit

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Healthcare, poverty alleviation at the heart of Bill Gates' final philanthropic pushMaroefah Smith

Medical students open SA's first organ donor support unit at Tygerberg Hospital

Medical students open SA's first organ donor support unit at Tygerberg Hospital

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From gas to streaming: What’s in South Africa’s new inflation basket?

Katja Hamilton 11 Feb 2025

F45, Hyrox partnership signals potential new prospects for SA’s fitness industry

F45, Hyrox partnership signals potential new prospects for SA’s fitness industry

11 Feb 2025

Medshield offers guidance on how to prepare for a healthy pregnancy

Medshield offers guidance on how to prepare for a healthy pregnancy

Stone 11 Feb 2025

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Alpha like Z: Patterns of growing financial confidence across emerging generations

10 Feb 2025

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USAID workforce reduced by 97%

Katja Hamilton 7 Feb 2025

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#Sona2025: The NHI takes shape: What’s at stake for medical aids?

Katja Hamilton 7 Feb 2025

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"Trump’s aid review is a win for Africa"

NJ Ayuk 6 Feb 2025

Health and well-being trends in 2025

Health and well-being trends in 2025

6 Feb 2025

Laurent Muschel, HERA Director General, and Jean Kaseya, Africa CDC Director General, stand near mpox vaccines as first batches arrive at N'Djili International Airport in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, 5 September 2024. Reuters/Justin Makangara/File Photo

Africa's top health official presses US to resume health aid

Jennifer Rigby 6 Feb 2025

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US exits UN-HRC

5 Feb 2025

#MiningIndaba: Minerals Council says Trump funding freeze won’t affect mine HIV treatment

#MiningIndaba: Minerals Council says Trump funding freeze won’t affect mine HIV treatment

Lindsey Schutters 5 Feb 2025

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An emerging field: Minimally invasive radiology techniques for cancer pain

4 Feb 2025

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Essential steps for robust healthcare financial planning in 2025

3 Feb 2025

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Work and money come out as top stressors in latest Profmed Stress Index

3 Feb 2025

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Interim relief for listeriosis class action claimants with urgent medical needs

3 Feb 2025

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Melanie van Rooy 31 Jan 2025

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Advanced medical imaging system signals a new era for SA oncology

30 Jan 2025

The Organic & Natural Products Expo returns with a focus on SMEs

The Organic & Natural Products Expo returns with a focus on SMEs

30 Jan 2025

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‘I’m breaching my Hippocratic oath’ – Trump’s foreign aid freeze halts key HIV programmes

29 Jan 2025

Dr Shay Ganesh, Medshield's new CMO.

Medshield names new CMO

28 Jan 2025

Patients' lives at risk as doctors refuse to work extra overtime without pay

Patients' lives at risk as doctors refuse to work extra overtime without pay

Yoliswa Sobuwa 28 Jan 2025

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Medical-cover shortfalls make gap cover a ‘must have’

28 Jan 2025

Strategic cleaning: the secret to achieving cost efficiency in 2025

Strategic cleaning: the secret to achieving cost efficiency in 2025

28 Jan 2025

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Western Cape EMS responds to record 69,000 calls during festive season

27 Jan 2025

Are old-school cosmetic facelifts really your skin’s best friend?

Are old-school cosmetic facelifts really your skin’s best friend?

Skin Renewal 27 Jan 2025

World Cancer Day campaign ‘United by Unique’

World Cancer Day campaign ‘United by Unique’

CANSA 24 Jan 2025

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How we diagnose and define obesity is set to change – here’s why, and what it means for treatment

Louise Baur, John B. Dixon, Priya Sumithran and Wendy A. Brown 23 Jan 2025

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Happiness surges in the USA on Inauguration Day, but declines in South Africa, Index reveals

23 Jan 2025

In the 2000s activists across the world campaigned for antiretroviral treatment to be made available to people with HIV. One of the consequences of this was PEPFAR, the United States government’s foreign aid HIV programme. Since 2003 it has saved millions of lives. But now its future is unclear. Photo from the Treatment Action Campaign’s march for HIV treatment in Cape Town on 14 February 2003. (photographer unknown)

Trump’s sudden suspension of foreign aid puts millions of lives in Africa at risk

Liezl Human 23 Jan 2025

Ultra-sound; ‘underused, under-trained,’ in SA

Ultra-sound; ‘underused, under-trained,’ in SA

Zebra Medical 23 Jan 2025

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Laurent Muschel, HERA Director General, and Jean Kaseya, Africa CDC Director General, stand near mpox vaccines as first batches arrive at N'Djili International Airport in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, 5 September 2024. Reuters/Justin Makangara/File Photo

Africa's top health official presses US to resume health aid

Jennifer Rigby 6 Feb 2025

An Anopheles stephensi mosquito obtains a blood meal from a human host through its pointed proboscis in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters, 23 November 2015. Reuters/Jim Gathany/CDC/Handout via Reuters/File Photo

Mystery disease identified as severe malaria - DRC health ministry

Yassin Kombi and Anait Miridzhanian 18 Dec 2024

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Tragedy strikes WHO Africa: Leadership transition uncertain

Katja Hamilton 28 Nov 2024

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