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Image supplied. Diffusion tensor imaging shows corpus callosum fibre tracts in two adolescents: One with traumatic brain injury (TBI; G and H) and one with an orthopaedic injury (E and F). At 3 months post-injury (E, G), early degeneration and loss of fibre tracts are visible, especially in the TBI case. At 18 months (F, H), some recovery or reorganisation occurs, but persistent loss and thinning of tracts remain, particularly in the frontal regions, indicating lasting white matter damage after TBI.

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Image supplied. Diffusion tensor imaging shows corpus callosum fibre tracts in two adolescents: One with traumatic brain injury (TBI; G and H) and one with an orthopaedic injury (E and F). At 3 months post-injury (E, G), early degeneration and loss of fibre tracts are visible, especially in the TBI case. At 18 months (F, H), some recovery or reorganisation occurs, but persistent loss and thinning of tracts remain, particularly in the frontal regions, indicating lasting white matter damage after TBI.

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

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Quantumed's Avian Bell makes 2025 Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 list

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South Africa's healthcare gets a boost as construction begins on new medical school

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Profmed steps in as 1,800 qualified SA doctors face job and healthcare crisis

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Tributes pour in for Brad Bing, champion of youth sports in South Africa

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Scientists at the University of Pretoria have found that fresh vegetables are being contaminated by disease-causing bacteria through irrigation from polluted rivers and boreholes. Photos: Steve Kretzmann / GroundUp

South Africa’s polluted rivers pose food contamination risk

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Vaping is not a safe form of smoking for youngsters (or adults) warns CANSA

Vaping is not a safe form of smoking for youngsters (or adults) warns CANSA

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Inside Baragwanath Hospital: How a linen shortage exposed systemic failures

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The future of medicine and wellness unveiled at WHX Cape Town

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South African innovation in action: E Squared Investments backs medtech startup Impulse Biomedical

South African innovation in action: E Squared Investments backs medtech startup Impulse Biomedical

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Wits University researchers are scrambling to manage the fallout from the decision by US President Donald Trump to slash funding to South Africa. Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee / GroundUp

Wits scrambles to lessen fallout from Trump’s funding cuts

Aisling de Lange 21 May 2025

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

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Mystery disease identified as severe malaria - DRC health ministry

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