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Medical Aid

HQA 2024: Progress and pitfalls for South Africa's private healthcare sector

3 days

Image credit: Olia Danilevich on Pexels

Infectious Diseases

#WorldHepatitisDay: Why hepatitis testing must be prioritised in SA

Merilynn Steenkamp 28 Jul 2025

New FMD cases in KZN and Eastern Cape spark biosecurity alert

Agriculture

New FMD cases in KZN and Eastern Cape spark biosecurity alert

31 Mar 2025

Healthcare

Why diabetes management is critical this World Kidney Day

10 Mar 2025

Source: Supplied.

Healthcare

Blood types decoded: How they impact emergency care

3 Mar 2025

Source: Liza Street and Taryn Uhlmann, co-founders of Ajuda.

Healthcare

The future of secure, accessible personal health records

5 Aug 2024

Source: Supplied. Vilnius University Life Sciences Centre (VU LSC) researcher Rasa Petraityte-Burneikiene.

Public Health

How reliable exactly are food-intolerance blood tests?

6 Jun 2024

Source: Supplied.

Public Health

AFSA highlights growing food allergy epidemic

5 Jun 2024

Source: Dischem.

HIV/AIDS

Dis-Chem teams with Ezintsha to enhance access to HIV prevention

7 Dec 2023

Prostate cancer: Unmasking the silent threat

Oncology

Prostate cancer: Unmasking the silent threat

Issued by CANSA 2 Nov 2023

Source: Reuters.

Pharmaceuticals

Grieving Gambian families take govt to court over mishandling of cough syrup

Edward McAllister 14 Jul 2023

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Labour Law

Can an employee be dismissed for the results of a breathalyser?

Kenneth Lennox 3 Jul 2023

Medical Aid

Mediclinic introduces non-invasive prenatal testing as part of basket of DNA-based diagnostic services

30 Jun 2023

Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Public Health

Vaccination drive hits Western Cape amidst growing measles outbreak in SA

27 Feb 2023

Source: Supplied

Trends

6 agriculture trends to look out for in 2023

Justin Platt 14 Dec 2022

Prediabetes - what you don't know may kill you

Healthcare

Prediabetes - what you don't know may kill you

Issued by Intercare 1 Nov 2022

Oncology

Will cancer biopsies one day be a thing of the past?

4 Feb 2022

Medical Research

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

13 Jan 2022

Source: ©Andriy Popov

Covid-19

Covid-19 diabetic patients risk similar to patients without diabetes

14 Oct 2021

Ethics & Medicolegal

How to manage risk against medical injury claims

Vanessa Rogers 24 May 2021

A graphic of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. Image by Hanna Vega Yinon M Bar-On, Avi Flamholz, Rob Phillips, and Ron Milo via Wikimedia, published in Cell Biology by the Numbers (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Covid-19

#Covid19: Blood tests to be conducted on 19,000 people in nine provinces

James Stent 11 Dec 2020

Why testing my DNA was the best thing I ever did

Disease Groups

Why testing my DNA was the best thing I ever did

Jenny Griesel, Issued by Jenny Griesel Communications 13 Nov 2020

Malaria

Malaria parasites in Nigeria are genetically diverse: a danger but also a useful tool

Segun Isaac Oyedeji 20 Oct 2020

It is unclear how well masks work.
People Image Studio/Shutterstock

Healthcare

3 major scientific controversies about coronavirus

Manal Mohammed 11 Aug 2020

New transcriptomic blood test to screen and monitor for TB

Tuberculosis

New transcriptomic blood test to screen and monitor for TB

26 May 2020

The insert to detect TB was 3D printed. Image source: Getty/Gallo

Tuberculosis

3D-printed device makes TB diagnosis faster and simpler

19 Feb 2020

A number of factors contribute to the lower rates of uptake of HIV treatment by adolescents. Nic Bothma/EPA

HIV/AIDS

South Africa needs to get more young people with HIV on treatment

Mhairi Maskew 26 Nov 2019

HelloFCB+’s new campaign for Cansa urges men to their prostate tested

Advertising

HelloFCB+’s new campaign for Cansa urges men to their prostate tested

18 Nov 2019

How to get a 400% return - and it's not a pyramid scheme

Employee Wellness

How to get a 400% return - and it's not a pyramid scheme

Sid Peimer 14 Mar 2019

Access to affordable medical treatment can save lives. Shutterstock

Oncology

Cancer drug pricing gets in the way of treatment in developing countries

Vikash Sewram 22 Feb 2019

Antibody could increase cure rate for blood, immune disorders

Medical Research

Antibody could increase cure rate for blood, immune disorders

14 Feb 2019

There’s a significant variation in pain sensitivity and tolerance. Shutterstock

Medical Research

Unpacking pain: what causes it and why it's hard to measure

Antonia Wadley & Peter Kamerman 19 Dec 2018

One test to diagnose them all: researchers exploit cancers' unique DNA signature

Oncology

One test to diagnose them all: researchers exploit cancers' unique DNA signature

Abu Sina, Laura Carrascosa & Matt Trau 5 Dec 2018

Public Health

The big 3 questions on healthcare and AI

Karen Feldscher 21 Nov 2018

Study: More black South Africans are donating blood

Medical Research

Study: More black South Africans are donating blood

31 Oct 2018

Brian Gitta with his Mattibabu malaria testing device

Malaria

Malaria testing device wins top prize for young Ugandan

21 Jun 2018

Public Health

The desperate global need for medical diagnostics

Julia von Oettingen and Rajesh Vedanthan 12 Jun 2018

SU involved in developing predictive TB blood test

Tuberculosis

SU involved in developing predictive TB blood test

6 Apr 2018

Cell biopsy studied under a microscope – the current way of detecting cancer. Tonhom1009/Shutterstock

Oncology

New test can detect eight types of cancer in a drop of blood

Tatjana Crnogorac-Jurcevic 30 Jan 2018

Three crucial things to manage cow's milk allergy in infants

Nutrition

Three crucial things to manage cow's milk allergy in infants

24 Jan 2018

DNA and insurance premiums

Financial Services

DNA and insurance premiums

24 Oct 2017

#InnovationMonth: How tech is transforming healthcare

Medical Aid

#InnovationMonth: How tech is transforming healthcare

Nicci Botha 13 Sep 2017

Tuberculosis

Animal studies give a clearer picture of TB

24 Mar 2017