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Hospital Groups

Paracetamol, pregnancy and autism: what the science really shows

Dipa Kamdar 1 day

Source: Reuters.

Economy

Inside SA’s multi-million rand plan to fill US funding void

Jesse Copelyn 15 Aug 2025

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

Higher Education

Wits scrambles to lessen fallout from Trump’s funding cuts

Aisling de Lange 21 May 2025

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Medical Research

#HumanRightsMonth: NIH's potential funding cut threatens South African medical research

19 Mar 2025

In the 2000s activists across the world campaigned for antiretroviral treatment to be made available to people with HIV. One of the consequences of this was PEPFAR, the United States government’s foreign aid HIV programme. Since 2003 it has saved millions of lives. But now its future is unclear. Photo from the Treatment Action Campaign’s march for HIV treatment in Cape Town on 14 February 2003. (photographer unknown)

CSI & Philanthropy

Trump’s sudden suspension of foreign aid puts millions of lives in Africa at risk

Liezl Human 23 Jan 2025

Public Health

CDC, FDA, NIH face communication lockdown under Trump

22 Jan 2025

Medical Research

Dementia care takes a leap forward with new photo reminiscence therapy research

18 Sep 2024

UCT professor wins prestigious global award

Higher Education

UCT professor wins prestigious global award

7 Dec 2023

The knowledge economy: What it is and why it should matter to SA small businesses

SMEs

The knowledge economy: What it is and why it should matter to SA small businesses

Issued by Business Partners Limited 24 Aug 2023

Adequate sleep is a prerequisite for overall better health

Medical Aid

Adequate sleep is a prerequisite for overall better health

Issued by Stone 24 Mar 2023

HIV/AIDS

R40m NIH grant keeps HIV prevention as top priority in 2023

10 Mar 2023

Covid-19

Moderna sues Pfizer

30 Aug 2022

Source: Freepik.

Oncology

UCT opens cervical cancer screening site

5 Aug 2022

Source: Reuters/Shelley Christians. A production scientist works with samples at the Afrigen Biologics' site in Cape Town.

Emergency Medicine

SA's Afrigen partners with US on mRNA vaccine research

Bhargav Acharya, Nellie Peyton and Josie Kao 12 Jul 2022

Medical Research

FIRST: Johns Hopkins receives grant for psilocybin research

26 Jan 2022

Source: Supplied. Professor Refiloe Masekela, head of UKZN’s Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health.

Covid-19

Children in sub-Saharan Africa dying of Covid-19 at a higher rate than others

20 Jan 2022

Medical Research

SAMRC sponsors landmark Covid-19 vaccine trial in collaborative bid to combat HIV

13 Jan 2022

Professor Ambroise Wonkam. Source: UCT

Medical Research

Building a sickle cell disease registry in Africa

16 Jul 2021

Source: ©Sebastien decoret

Ethics & Medicolegal

Equity and access need to be at the forefront of innovation in human genome editing

Jantina de Vries & Françoise Baylis 14 Jul 2021

Maker spaces give engineers and designers the tools to build low-cost medical equipment using locally available materials.
Brandon Martin, Rice University, CC BY-NC-ND

Covid-19

'Frugal design' brings medical innovations to communities that lack resources during the pandemic

Rebecca Richards-Kortum & Theresa Mkandawire 31 Mar 2021

SA architect Sumayya Vally on 2021 Time100 Next list

Architecture & Design

SA architect Sumayya Vally on 2021 Time100 Next list

19 Feb 2021

Professor Gerhard Walzl. Image: Twitter

Tuberculosis

Study to evaluate new TB diagnostic tests and treatments

9 Sep 2020

More clinical trials in African countries can help ensure that any vaccines or treatments developed cater to the continent’s genetic diversity. CELLOU BINANI/AFP via Getty Images

Medical Research

Few clinical trials are done in Africa: Covid-19 shows why this urgently needs to change

Jenniffer Mabuka-Maroa 7 Apr 2020

National Geographic commemorates Earth Day this April

TV

National Geographic commemorates Earth Day this April

Issued by The Walt Disney Company Africa 7 Apr 2020

Not your grandmother’s vaccine.
Maria Croyle, CC BY-ND

Pharmaceuticals

Vaccines without needles - new shelf-stable film could revolutionise how medicines are distributed worldwide

Maria Croyle 6 Mar 2020

A new way to give an old TB vaccine proves highly effective in monkeys

Tuberculosis

A new way to give an old TB vaccine proves highly effective in monkeys

JoAnne L. Flynn 2 Jan 2020

Medical Research

What we've learnt from building Africa's biggest genome library

Deepti Gurdasani, Ayesha Motala, Pontiano Kaleebu & Segun Fatumo 4 Dec 2019

Clinical trials underway for adult TB vaccine

Tuberculosis

Clinical trials underway for adult TB vaccine

21 Nov 2019

Millions of young children get malaria. These two got it in 2010.
AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam

Pharmaceuticals

There's a way for modern medicine to cure diseases even when the treatments aren't profitable

James Leahy 28 Oct 2019

Medical Research

Quarter century study on ageing in South Africa offers new perspectives

Kathleen Kahn & Stephen Tollman 17 Oct 2019

An image of a string adhesion between the liver and the intestine. The cell nuclei are stained white.
Jonathan Tsai

Surgical Procedures

Surgical adhesions can be treated, prevented in mice

Krista Conger 4 Jan 2019

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Medical Research

Surgery, not antibiotics, should remain first-line treatment for appendicitis

23 Nov 2018

Genes explain why alcohol withdrawal is so hard on some

Medical Research

Genes explain why alcohol withdrawal is so hard on some

Bill Hathaway 27 Sep 2018

Cleveland Clinic

Medical Research

Drug shows promise for progressive MS

4 Sep 2018

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Medical Research

New treatment in the works for disfiguring skin disease, vitiligo

John Harris 19 Jul 2018

Safe Passage Study links drinking and smoking with stillbirths and Sids

Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Safe Passage Study links drinking and smoking with stillbirths and Sids

Nicci Botha 10 Jul 2018

Viral suppression helps lower risk for many types of cancer, study finds

Oncology

Viral suppression helps lower risk for many types of cancer, study finds

Elisabeth Reitman 25 Jun 2018

Mosquitoes are only one problem when it comes to malaria. Fake medicines are another. Athit Perawongmetha/Reuters

Malaria

Fake drugs are one reason malaria still kills so many

11 Jun 2018

Researchers say use of artificial intelligence in medicine raises ethical questions

Medtech

Researchers say use of artificial intelligence in medicine raises ethical questions

Patricia Hannon 4 Apr 2018

Size matters when it comes to keeping blood sugar levels in check

Noncommunicable diseases

Size matters when it comes to keeping blood sugar levels in check

10 Feb 2017

How ‘stealth warrior' bacteria turn a tick's gut microbes against itself

Medical Research

How ‘stealth warrior' bacteria turn a tick's gut microbes against itself

Ziba Kashef 20 Jan 2017

Brain impairments in premature infants may begin in the womb

Paediatrics

Brain impairments in premature infants may begin in the womb

Karen N. Peart 12 Jan 2017

Treatment doe not kill TB completely

Tuberculosis

Treatment doe not kill TB completely

16 Sep 2016

Medical Research

Study shows how Zika infects the placenta

Ziba Kashef 19 Aug 2016

Research

Why it's time African researchers stopped working in silos

Thomas Kariuki 26 May 2016

Insulin resistance drug benefits heart and stroke patients

Noncommunicable diseases

Insulin resistance drug benefits heart and stroke patients

Ziba Kashef 23 Feb 2016

Researchers link lipids to one third of myelomas

Oncology

Researchers link lipids to one third of myelomas

11 Feb 2016

Researcher's fascination with mosquito genetics may help address Zika crisis

Medical Research

Researcher's fascination with mosquito genetics may help address Zika crisis

Karen N. Peart 5 Feb 2016