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Consistency and variety - Nutrition for real immune support

Nutrition

Consistency and variety - Nutrition for real immune support

Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 27 May 2025

Navigating 2024's top nutrition trends with insights from registered dietitians

Nutrition

Navigating 2024's top nutrition trends with insights from registered dietitians

Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 25 Jan 2024

Smart ways to boost your immunity

Hospital Groups

Smart ways to boost your immunity

Issued by Intercare 3 Apr 2023

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Oncology

Cancers that commonly affect women and the new innovations in treatment

21 Feb 2023

Source: Supplied. Donald McMillan, managing director at Allmed Healthcare Professionals.

Covid-19

Boosting vaccine rollout and debunking Covid-19 myths

24 Jan 2022

Covid-19

Covid-19 vaccine trials in Africa: what's promising, and what's problematic

Benjamin Kagina 2 Dec 2020

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

Healthcare

3 major scientific controversies about coronavirus

Manal Mohammed 11 Aug 2020

Lerato Mosiah, CEO: Health Funders Association

Trends

#BizTrends2020: The future of healthcare is now

Lerato Mosiah 6 Jan 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

Admire Dube, associate professor of pharmacy, University of the Western Cape

Tuberculosis

Using nanomedicine to fight TB

Nicklaus Kruger 6 Dec 2019

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Medical Research

New approach to treating cystic fibrosis

3 Dec 2019

TB is still a leading cause of death around the world. Sanjay Baid/EPA-EFE

Tuberculosis

We are gaining against TB but knowledge gaps remain

Emily Wong, Al Leslie & Mohlopheni Jackson Marakalala 11 Nov 2019

Image source: Getty/Gallo

HIV/AIDS

Study sheds new light on barriers to a cure for HIV

16 Oct 2019

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Paediatrics

Breastfeeding could provide life-long immunity to infection, study

4 Jun 2019

For developing countries in Africa immunotherapy solutions is important given the high cost of cancer drugs. Shutterstock

Oncology

How we are developing immunotherapies relevant to Africa

Neelakshi Mungra, Krupa Naran & Trishana Nundalall 30 Apr 2019

There is currently no established cure for Ebola – could antibody treatments be the answer? AHMED JALLANZO/EPA

Infectious Diseases

Guinea pigs cured of Ebola with antibodies, raising hopes for treatment in humans

Pramila Rajil & Alain Townsend 4 Apr 2019

TB, which is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, is a leading cause of death. Kateryna Kon/Shutterstock

Tuberculosis

Major battles have been won against TB. But the war isn't over

Bavesh Kana 22 Mar 2019

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), shown here as tiny purple spheres, causes the disease known as AIDS. Mark Ellisman and Tom Deerinck, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research

HIV/AIDS

A cure for HIV? Feasible but not yet realised

Allison Webel 8 Mar 2019

STIs are a serious health threat. Shutterstock

Public Health

Preventing sexually transmitted infections: why South Africa isn't winning

Tendesayi Kufa-Chakezha 15 Feb 2019

Child ready to receive measles vaccine, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau. Christine Stabell Benn, Author provided

Infectious Diseases

Vaccines have health effects beyond protecting against target diseases

Christine Stabell Benn 15 Jan 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

Michelle Monje and her colleagues found that the chemotherapy drug methotrexate can affect three major types of brain cells, resulting in a phenomenon known as "chemo brain."
Steve Fisch

Medical Research

Study: Understanding chemo brain

Erin Digitale 2 Jan 2019

In this 2012 photo, grandmother Janet Kitheka, 63, collects her adopted “granddaughter” Lucy, 13, at the end of the school day in the yard of the Hot Courses Primary School, in the village of Nyumbani which caters to children who lost their parents to HIV, and grandparents who lost their children to HIV in Kenya.

HIV/AIDS

Aspirin could help reduce HIV infections in women

Colin Graydon and Monika Kowatsch 20 Nov 2018

James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo, 2018 Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine. Niklas Elmehed. Copyright: Nobel Media AB 2018

Medical Research

James Allison and Tasuku Honjo: deserving winners of this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine

Sheena Cruickshank 9 Oct 2018

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Medical Research

New treatment in the works for disfiguring skin disease, vitiligo

John Harris 19 Jul 2018

Study: Immune history effects flu vaccine efficiency

Medical Research

Study: Immune history effects flu vaccine efficiency

29 Mar 2018

Students at the 2017 Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) Camp for Girls at the University of Wollongong. Paul Jones/UOW, Author provided

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

How to find success as a woman in science

Kara Perrow, Amy Wyatt, and Martina Sanderson-Smit 13 Feb 2017

Scrambled DNA inside tumours might hinder cancer immunotherapy

Oncology

Scrambled DNA inside tumours might hinder cancer immunotherapy

20 Jan 2017

Research shows vitamin D deficiency puts HIV-positive Africans at risk

HIV/AIDS

Research shows vitamin D deficiency puts HIV-positive Africans at risk

2 Jun 2016

Researchers link lipids to one third of myelomas

Oncology

Researchers link lipids to one third of myelomas

11 Feb 2016

Research in the news: Study reveals new way to 'rewire' immune cells to slow tumor growth

Medical Research

Research in the news: Study reveals new way to 'rewire' immune cells to slow tumor growth

Ziba Kashef 1 Sep 2015

Molecular map reveals genetic origins of 21 autoimmune diseases

Medical Research

Molecular map reveals genetic origins of 21 autoimmune diseases

3 Nov 2014

Help shed the stigma of psoriasis

Noncommunicable diseases

Help shed the stigma of psoriasis

28 Oct 2014

Infant immune systems learn fast, but have short memories

Paediatrics

Infant immune systems learn fast, but have short memories

18 Jun 2014

Redirecting our immune cells to help fight children's cancer

Oncology

Redirecting our immune cells to help fight children's cancer

8 Nov 2013

Johns Hopkins researchers find promising therapeutic target for hard-to-treat brain tumor

Neurology

Johns Hopkins researchers find promising therapeutic target for hard-to-treat brain tumor

3 Sep 2013

Scientists find calcium is the initial trigger in our immune response to healing

Medical Research

Scientists find calcium is the initial trigger in our immune response to healing

15 Feb 2013

HIV/AIDS: Spanish researchers report encouraging results in search for therapeutic HIV vaccine

HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS: Spanish researchers report encouraging results in search for therapeutic HIV vaccine

4 Jan 2013

Infectious Diseases

Yale researchers discover why typhoid fever pathogen targets only humans

Bill Hathaway 16 Nov 2012

Oncology

Immune responses can be generated locally within human melanoma skin metastases

2 Aug 2012

Neurology

Cornell research may hold key to multiple sclerosis treatment

11 Jun 2012

Scientists identify mechanisms in aspirin that help protect against cancer

Medical Research

Scientists identify mechanisms in aspirin that help protect against cancer

6 Jun 2012

Immune system turning on itself may trigger melanoma growth

Medical Research

Immune system turning on itself may trigger melanoma growth

Helen Dodson 2 Apr 2012

Yale study: How suppressing the immune system may prevent type 1 diabetes

Medical Research

Yale study: How suppressing the immune system may prevent type 1 diabetes

Helen Dodson 25 Jan 2012

Medical Research

Stem cell approach primes immune system to fight cancer

11 Nov 2011

Autoimmune disease-causing cells can be controlled

Medical Research

Autoimmune disease-causing cells can be controlled

29 Jul 2011

Medical Research

Cell therapy aims to prevent transplant rejection

27 May 2011