A brand new state-of-the-art Simulation and Clinical Skills Unit (SCSU) will officially open at Stellenbosch University's (SU) Tygerberg Campus in Cape Town today...
Researchers at Stellenbosch University (SU) are searching for the safest and most effective treatment for babies at high risk of contracting HIV...
GoPro cameras are not just excellent for capturing high-speed sports, outdoor adventures activities and mind-blowing performances. They could also be used as an educational tool for surgery students...
A study has shown that certain immune systems react differently when exposed to the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis or Mtb) than others...
A trial involving over 1,200 children from four different countries has found that the vast majority of them could be successfully treated for tuberculosis (TB) in four months instead of the usual six months...
The global pandemic has highlighted many fault-lines across society, and in our current state of ongoing disruption, it also presents us with unique opportunities to make changes...
Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 8 Oct 2020
A R128m grant from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) will help fund a five-year multinational research study that Stellenbosch University is undertaking to investigate new tuberculosis (TB) tests...
Reports from around the world show that the shortage of health professionals in public healthcare systems will be worsened by the increased demand for health services caused by the Covid-19 pandemic...
Ian Couper & Jana Müller 9 Jul 2020
"We are a country that's spent enough time hurting one another. We're now at a place where we are caring about and helping one another. This pandemic is making us face the problem together. We are all the same. It feels right."
When the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery at Stellenbosch University (SU) started a 3D printing laboratory about two years ago to assist surgeons in planning and rehearsing surgical procedures, they had no idea the lab would be put to use in a pandemic...
A R280m grant will fund a project to develop and evaluate child-friendly treatments for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and assess regimens to prevent the onset of the disease...
Negligence at Gauteng state hospitals has caused damage to over 20,000 patients in the past two-and-a-half years, with R29bn paid out in claims...
Scientists from Stellenbosch University (SU), in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of researchers and clinicians, are working on how Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB), can develop resistance to Bedaquiline...
More than 450 staff members, students and other stakeholders attended a symposium at Stellenbosch University's (SU) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) to o reflect on the appropriateness of race-based research...
Stellenbosch Unversity's Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Professor Jimmy Volmink has acknowledged the concerns raised about an article published by researchers from the Department of Sport Science...
Most cancers can now be detected early. This hasn't always been the case...
Vikash Sewram 22 Feb 2019
The word 'cancer' invokes deep fear as a silent killer, with many viewing this disease as a symbol of grief and pain, a plague straining our intellectual and emotional resources...
Vikash Sewram 3 Feb 2019
Two-dimensional imaging modalities, such as X-rays, computer tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), have been, until recently, the standard for orthopaedic surgeons...
Construction of a R1bn new state-of-the-art research facility based at Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) commenced with a sod-turning ceremony on 25 January...
South Africa has come a long way after more than two decades of democracy...
Florence de Vries 26 Nov 2018
A large, multi-institutional clinical trial by emergency medicine experts from Stellenbosch University (SU)will evaluate the use of synthetic blood products for the resuscitation of trauma victims before arrival at hospital...
Nursing malpractice has resulted in a significant rise in civil claims against private hospitals...
The ultimate outcome of the roundtable is to work towards "breaking the back of poverty and inequality" in South Africa...
Vaccine hesitancy is a complex phenomenon that needs to be understood within the specific context it occurs...
Michelle Rotchford-Galloway 17 Oct 2018
The inaugural South African Health Excellence Awards, hosted by private healthcare group Clinix in partnership with the South African Clinician Scientists Society, is now open for nominations...
As the frontline of healthcare in Africa, mid-level health workers need improved training to help them reduce the burden of disease in their communities...
Finding the right biochemical tests to detect diabetes mellitus earlier can reduce the heavy burden of this disease on the healthcare system and local communities...
Jorisna Bonthuys 10 Sep 2018
Professor Gerhard Walzl and Dr Stephanus Malherbe of the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research were part of an international study...
Children with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) can be successfully treated...
Acquiring communication skills will probably occupy an increasingly important position in the medical curriculum of Stellenbosch University (SU)...
Jackie Pienaar-Brink 15 Aug 2018
Professor Soraya Seedat joined Stellenbosch University's Department of Psychiatry in 1992, fresh from her MBChB internship...
Jeanne van der Merwe 3 Aug 2018
An international study has confirmed that drinking alcohol and smoking during pregnancy is detrimental to the unborn baby. In fact, even more so than previously thought...
Nicci Botha 10 Jul 2018
A new study addresses the full value chain in health sciences education...
Stellenbosch University (SU) has named a new student residence after Nkosi Johnson...
A new blood test that can predict tuberculosis (TB) up to two years before its onset in people at high risk of developing the disease has a South African connection...
An estimated 540-million people are debilitated by low back pain at any given time worldwide. In Africa, the statistic translates into more than one in three people...
Albeit a lifesaving procedure, heart valve replacement is fraught with problems ranging from blood clotting to tissue degeneration. The field is long overdue for innovation...
Olivia Rose-Innes 26 Feb 2018
Within the context of the severe drought gripping large parts of the country, dehydration resulting from a lack of sufficient water intake can affect human skin, which in turn, can lead to other health challenges...
Consumers in Cape Town have poor knowledge about food and nutrition labels, and nutrition information on food labels does not have a major influence on what they buy...
One of the side effects of a certain class of life-saving drugs used in the treatment of breast cancer could potentially leave a small percentage of women vulnerable to fractures...
Many South Africans are going hungry...
Xikombiso Mbhenyane and Irene Labuschagne 4 Dec 2017
Snake oil salesmen, charlatans and con-artists have long been known to prey on vulnerable people with health problems...
Not everyone who goes through a painful event will develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PSTD)...
Even though she has been involved in more than 1,000 kidney transplants, Professor Elmin Steyn is still amazed when the organ becomes a healthy red...
Jackie Pienaar-Brink 24 Aug 2017
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is becoming increasingly difficult to treat, so researchers are using genome data to develop compounds that will combat the disease...
A man with tardive dystonia became the first adult to undergo deep brain stimulation (DBS) at a Western Cape state hospital...
Stellenbosch University's faculty of medicine and health sciences announced today that it has performed a second successful penile transplant...
Nicci Botha 22 May 2017
Studying TB in animals provides valuable insight to the biological mechanisms causing the disease in both wildlife and humans.
People living with HIV have an increased life expectancy, but this has created a need to screen for comorbidities that still threaten their longevity...
A Stellenbosch University study reveals that one in four coloured people in the Western Cape may be affected by diabetes...