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Health Ombud reveals systemic failures in South African healthcare

10 Dec 2025

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Tygerberg Hospital performs SA's first fully internal limb reconstruction

8 Dec 2025

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Consider this advice before travelling abroad for health care

Consider this advice before travelling abroad for health care

Valorie A. Crooks 4 Jun 2018

Kickballs, chicken and 3-D models help Johns Hopkins surgeons prepare for complex foetal surgeries

Kickballs, chicken and 3-D models help Johns Hopkins surgeons prepare for complex foetal surgeries

18 Apr 2018

New clinical skills training centre aims to improve quality and safety

New clinical skills training centre aims to improve quality and safety

Nicci Botha 27 Mar 2018

Tapping into medical tourism

Tapping into medical tourism

15 Jan 2018

Stephanus van Wyk with Dr Conrad Pienaar

New lymphoedema surgery provides relief to cancer patients

23 Oct 2017

Breast reconstruction and radiation therapy - is it really safe?

Breast reconstruction and radiation therapy - is it really safe?

Frank Graewe 7 Sep 2017

Professor Elmin Steyn, head of surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University. Photo: Damien Schumann

#WomensMonth: Transplants are her passion

Jackie Pienaar-Brink 24 Aug 2017

Photo: RoboCatz

Robot-aided surgery now in Eastern Cape

18 Aug 2017

Nanoparticles trick body into accepting organ transplants

Nanoparticles trick body into accepting organ transplants

William Weir 4 Aug 2017

Boy, 5, gets a mechanical heart

Boy, 5, gets a mechanical heart

Aron Hyman 3 Aug 2017

Keloid surgery gives a man his life back

Keloid surgery gives a man his life back

Frank Graewe 1 Aug 2017

PE doctor develops surgery course

PE doctor develops surgery course

Estelle Ellis 21 Jul 2017

Announcing the Pan-African Health Tourism Congress 2017

Announcing the Pan-African Health Tourism Congress 2017

Pan-African Health Congress 31 May 2017

After a successful cochlear implant, Aloshay Arendse (8) is getting a second chance at childhood. With her from left are anaesthetist Dr Nick Meyersfeld, her grandmother Spasina Isaacs, mother Candice Isaacs, father Ashley Arendse and Dr Gary Kroukamp, one of her surgeons, at Life Kingsbury Hospital. Photo: People's Post

Case study: No such thing as a small anaesthesia

30 May 2017

SU's second successful penis transplant

SU's second successful penis transplant

Nicci Botha 22 May 2017

SA increasingly marketed as top medical tourism destination

SA increasingly marketed as top medical tourism destination

15 May 2017

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Cutting-edge radio-surgical technology arrives in SA

9 May 2017

Uwenzile and Uyihlelile Shilongonyane with their mom, Bongekile Simelane, minutes before they underwent their separation surgery .

Conjoined twins successfully separated

23 Jan 2017

Source: Mediclinic Southern Africa

SA's first paediatric mucoepimoid tumour removal

22 Dec 2016

#MovemberRSA: Prostate bot surgery minimises erectile dysfunction

#MovemberRSA: Prostate bot surgery minimises erectile dysfunction

17 Nov 2016

Urgent need to restructure SA's organ transplant process

Urgent need to restructure SA's organ transplant process

Danette Breitenbach 16 Nov 2016

SASA on the economics of patient safety during surgery

SASA on the economics of patient safety during surgery

31 Oct 2016

What are craniofacial syndromes?

What are craniofacial syndromes?

Frank Graewe 22 Jun 2016

New minimally invasive procedure for BPH

New minimally invasive procedure for BPH

24 May 2016

The Kilimanjaro Challenge 2014 team at the summit

Ain't no mountain high enough

Nicci Botha 5 May 2016

Akikere: before and after

Breakthrough craniofacial surgery: Round 2

Frank Graewe 15 Apr 2016

Doctors at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Zimbabwe prepare for surgery

First cardiac surgery performed in Zimbabwe in 13 years

7 Mar 2016

The new cryo-balloon allows the user to effectively measure the atrial fibrillation signals during ablation by bringing the catheter anatomically close to the veins’ muscular sleeve.

300th cryo-balloon ablation procedure performed

4 Mar 2016

Sparing ovaries and removing fallopian tubes may cut cancer risk, but few have procedure

Sparing ovaries and removing fallopian tubes may cut cancer risk, but few have procedure

Karen N. Peart 25 Jan 2016

JPS Africa introduces new medical procedures to SA

17 Dec 2015

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