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Distell and Invenfin buy 40% stake in cannabis wellness brand Rethink

20 Jan 2021

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Report on racial bias by schemes against black healthcare providers released

20 Jan 2021

Hand hygiene is important to fight Covid-19 but how can you do that without water. Shutterstock

Covid-19 policy briefs must be realistic: a review by young southern African scientists

Puleng Segalo, Adeyemi Oladapo Arem, Pradeep Kumar 20 Jan 2021

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AI changes the dynamics of healthcare

Henry Adams 19 Jan 2021

A healthcare worker fills a syringe with a dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine. Nick Potts/PA Images via Getty Images

Some key questions answered on Covid-19 vaccines for African countries

Ina Skosana & Ozayr Patel 19 Jan 2021

Zuri Health launched to help provide affordable, accessible healthcare solutions

Zuri Health launched to help provide affordable, accessible healthcare solutions

Papama Nyati 19 Jan 2021

Why Skin Renewal's holistic body approach to weight loss works

Why Skin Renewal's holistic body approach to weight loss works

Dr Lestonn Lawn, Skin Renewal 19 Jan 2021

Leading scientists speculate that vaccines will help us get to a point where SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, will be just another common cold. Illustration: Lisa Nelson

Will vaccines eradicate SARS-CoV-2?

James Stent 18 Jan 2021

South Africa’s Minister of Health, Dr Zweli Mkhize (centre). The government has been criticised for not having an actionable plan on vaccines. Photo by Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images

South Africa failed to get its act together on vaccines: here's how

Shabir A Madhi 18 Jan 2021

Medicines are only approved for use by the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority when there is sufficient evidence that their benefits outweigh their risks.

Ivermectin and Covid-19: Why it's promising but why we need to be cautious

Rufaro Samanga 15 Jan 2021

Nurses in the isolation unit at Tygerberg Hospital in the Western Cape. Misha Jordaan/Gallo Images via Getty Images

Making a hospital space feel psychologically safer helped South African health workers

Hamieda Parker 15 Jan 2021

Paul Cox, MD, Essential Group of Companies

#BizTrends2021: The 3 prevalent influencers in healthcare in 2021

Paul Cox 14 Jan 2021

This graph published by the MRC shows how much worse the second Covid-19 surge is than the first one that peaked in July.

Record number of South Africans died in first week of 2021

James Stent and Nathan Geffen 14 Jan 2021

Muizenberg beach is eerily quiet on a hot summer’s day, 29 December 2020. If we want to save lives and life to go back to normal we need to embrace vaccines.

Here's how to fight anti-vaccine propaganda

GroundUp Editors 13 Jan 2021

Africa news

Zuri Health launched to help provide affordable, accessible healthcare solutions

Zuri Health launched to help provide affordable, accessible healthcare solutions

Papama Nyati 19 Jan 2021

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#BizTrends2021: African demands for post-Covid healthcare align impact with investor opportunity in 2021

Jason Mitchell 11 Jan 2021

The rise of commercial milk formulas and why it matters for the world's women and children

The rise of commercial milk formulas and why it matters for the world's women and children

David McCoy, Julie P. Smith and Phillip Baker 5 Jan 2021

Fighting HIV and Aids in times of Covid-19

Fighting HIV and Aids in times of Covid-19

31 Dec 2020

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