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Christina Curtis and her colleagues found that colon cancer tumours could potentially spread to other parts of the body much earlier than previously known.
Paul Sakuma

Most metastatic colorectal cancers have spread before diagnosis

25 Jun 2019

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Insuring your practice against business interruptions

Christiaan Steyn 24 Jun 2019

Shockwave IVL procedure

New procedure uses ultrasonic waves to break down coronary artery blockages

24 Jun 2019

450 SACAP graduates to boost mental health workforce

450 SACAP graduates to boost mental health workforce

SACAP 24 Jun 2019

Western Cape Mediclinics receive a cluster of quality awards

Western Cape Mediclinics receive a cluster of quality awards

COHSASA 24 Jun 2019

The Department of Health in Limpopo says is no money to hire about 400 nurses who fully qualified in January this year. Photo: Bernard Chiguvare

400 newly qualified nurses without jobs in Limpopo

Bernard Chiguvare 24 Jun 2019

President Cyril Ramaphosa has promised that long waits at state health facilities will be a thing of the past. Photo: RNews

President promises revised NHI plan

21 Jun 2019

Border screening at Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. EPA-EFE/DANIEL IRUNGU

Kenya responded fast to Ebola scare, but cross-border risk remains high

Abdhalah Ziraba 21 Jun 2019

Integrated approach needed to aid conservation, health

Integrated approach needed to aid conservation, health

21 Jun 2019

Jill Larkan, head of healthcare consulting, GTC

Are umbrella medical funds the way forward?

Jill Larkan 20 Jun 2019

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What stresses doctors out?

20 Jun 2019

Doctors and nurses were held at gunpoint to stop giving patients treatment. (Paul Botes)

Hospitals close in Mpumalanga as doctors and nurses fear for their safety

Nelisiwe Msomi 19 Jun 2019

There’s a lack of research that deals specifically with conditions in African countries. Shutterstock

Africa needs to up its research game to fight non-communicable diseases

Andre Pascal Kengne, Elvis Banboye Kidzeru & Muki Shey 19 Jun 2019

South Africa should learn from Brazil about how to tackle 'hidden hunger'

South Africa should learn from Brazil about how to tackle 'hidden hunger'

Brittany Kesselman 19 Jun 2019

Africa news

Integrated approach needed to aid conservation, health

Integrated approach needed to aid conservation, health

21 Jun 2019

Border screening at Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. EPA-EFE/DANIEL IRUNGU

Kenya responded fast to Ebola scare, but cross-border risk remains high

Abdhalah Ziraba 21 Jun 2019

There’s a lack of research that deals specifically with conditions in African countries. Shutterstock

Africa needs to up its research game to fight non-communicable diseases

Andre Pascal Kengne, Elvis Banboye Kidzeru & Muki Shey 19 Jun 2019

Health workers from Bwera hospital prepare to transport the body of a fifty-year-old woman who died of Ebola to the burial site in Bwera, Uganda. MELANIE ATUREEBE/EPA

How Africa's porous borders make it difficult to contain Ebola

Mosoka Fallah 18 Jun 2019

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