Higher EducationWits scrambles to lessen fallout from Trump’s funding cutsAisling de Lange 21 May 2025
HealthcareSugary drinks are a killer: a 20% tax would save lives and rands in South AfricaSusan Goldstein 4 Apr 2025
Medical Research#HumanRightsMonth: NIH's potential funding cut threatens South African medical research19 Mar 2025
Mental healthMental health and motherhood: South Africa now has treatment guidelines, the trick will be to make them workSimone Honikman, Saleha Suleman and Donela Besada 30 Dec 2024
HealthcareSocial protection was always meant to be in the plan – where did it all go wrong?18 Nov 2024
NutritionHow to eat right for a better lifeIssued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 9 Oct 2024
HIV/AIDSSignificant progress has been made in controlling HIV in South Africa, report shows23 Jul 2024
Education & TrainingSU's Professor Tulio de Oliveira selected for Time100 Health 2024Issued by Stellenbosch University 6 May 2024
ResearchBig companies, like Nestlé, are funding health research in South Africa - why this is wrongSusan Goldstein, Mark Tomlinson, Rachel Wynberg and Tanya Doherty 5 Mar 2024
Noncommunicable diseasesDiabetes is South Africa's second biggest killer disease: hiking the sugar tax would help6 Nov 2023
HealthcarePivotal local research on antibiotic-resistant infections in hospitals begins in earnest22 Nov 2022
Retail MarketingPMI event sponsorship "tantamount to tobacco advertising" - civil society orgs7 Nov 2022
RegulatoryWhy South Africa should introduce mandatory labelling for fast foodsSiphiwe Dlamini 22 Mar 2022
Medical ResearchSAMRC sponsors landmark Covid-19 vaccine trial in collaborative bid to combat HIV13 Jan 2022
Covid-19South Africa's vaccine quagmire, and what needs to be done nowAlex van den Heever, Imraan Valodia, Shabir A Madhi & Willem Venter 5 Jul 2021
Covid-19South Africa's latest Covid-19 lockdown puts spotlight back on vaccination failuresShabir A Madhi 30 Jun 2021
Higher EducationNew deputy vice-chancellor appointed at the North-West UniversityIssued by North-West University (NWU) 13 May 2021
Noncommunicable diseasesWe're on the hunt for novel ways to assess the risk of type 2 diabetesCecil Jack Weale 14 Apr 2021
Ethics & MedicolegalFive principles that should guide future DNA 'editing' in South AfricaBonginkosi Shozi & Marietjie Botes 16 Feb 2021
Covid-19Results from Novavax vaccine trials in the UK and South Africa differ: why, and does it matter?Ina Skosana 2 Feb 2021
Covid-19South African scientists who discovered new Covid-19 variant share what they knowWillem Hanekom & Tulio de Oliveira 25 Jan 2021
Covid-19South Africa failed to get its act together on vaccines: here's howShabir A Madhi 18 Jan 2021
Covid-19Record number of South Africans died in first week of 2021James Stent and Nathan Geffen 14 Jan 2021
Noncommunicable diseasesDiabetes prevention and care needs more nurses with extra training and supportSundeep Ruder 16 Nov 2020
Covid-19Lockdown didn't work in South Africa: why it shouldn't happen againBenjamin T H Smart & Alex Broadbent 15 Oct 2020
Covid-1910 ways South Africa can step up care for its healthcare workersKaymarlin Govender, Gavin George, Sean Beckett & Tim Quinlan 23 Jul 2020
Covid-19Balancing privacy with public health: how well is South Africa doing?Michael Sean Pepper & Marietjie Botes 25 Jun 2020
Covid-19Covid-19 report: What does herd immunity mean for South Africa?GroundUp and Spotlight staff 5 Jun 2020