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BigBucks Gala apple wins EU plant breeders’ rights

Agriculture

BigBucks Gala apple wins EU plant breeders’ rights

3 days

Breast cancer screening in South Africa: Balancing early detection with appropriate care

Oncology

Breast cancer screening in South Africa: Balancing early detection with appropriate care

Dr Fatima Hoosain, Issued by MANGO-OMC 28 Jul 2026

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Hospital Groups

Paracetamol, pregnancy and autism: what the science really shows

Dipa Kamdar 25 Sep 2025

Flash Gala surpasses one million cartons as South African apple exports gain ground

Agro-processing

Flash Gala surpasses one million cartons as South African apple exports gain ground

16 May 2025

Source: Supplied. Professor Rajendra Bhimma, who practises at Netcare St Augustine’s Hospital.

Healthcare

Award-winning kidney specialist leads the fight against youth dialysis rates

10 Mar 2025

Laurent Muschel, HERA Director General, and Jean Kaseya, Africa CDC Director General, stand near mpox vaccines as first batches arrive at N'Djili International Airport in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, 5 September 2024. Reuters/Justin Makangara/File Photo

Health & Social Welfare

Africa's top health official presses US to resume health aid

Jennifer Rigby 6 Feb 2025

#BizTrends2025: Exploring key trends in the apple and pear industry

Trends

#BizTrends2025: Exploring key trends in the apple and pear industry

Roelf Pienaar 28 Jan 2025

December's film lineup: thrillers, love stories, and live theatre at your fingertips

Film

December's film lineup: thrillers, love stories, and live theatre at your fingertips

Daniel Dercksen 28 Nov 2024

Source: National Institute for Communicable Diseases.

Public Health

Mpox: No global lockdowns, emphasis on increased education, vigilance, airport screening and monitoring

Katja Hamilton 24 Aug 2024

Source: Supplied. Bada Pharasi, chief executive officer of the Innovative Pharmaceutical Association of South Africa (Ipasa).

Healthcare

Research and innovation key to safeguarding SA’s health resiliency

27 Jun 2024

Covid-19

WHO closely monitors Covid variant amid mutation concerns

Katja Hamilton 15 Aug 2023

Covid-19

Dept of Health monitoring hospitalisations and deaths linked to new Covid-19 variant

9 Jan 2023

Breast cancer awareness in the genomic landscape

Women's Health

Breast cancer awareness in the genomic landscape

Fourie Joubert and Annie Joubert, Issued by University of Pretoria 18 Oct 2022

Digital

The I in AI

Edward Herridge 10 Aug 2022

Source: Supplied. Dr Fatima Hoosain.

Medical Research

Understanding the treatment of breast cancer in young women

Dr Fatima Hoosain 18 May 2022

Source: Moderna

Covid-19

Bancel says he's working to get Moderna vaccine in Hong Kong

18 Feb 2022

#BizTrends2022: Safeguarding supply chain sustainability in a post-pandemic world

Trends

#BizTrends2022: Safeguarding supply chain sustainability in a post-pandemic world

Dr Juanita Maree 5 Jan 2022

Covid-19

Omicron gets around some, not all immunity

2 Dec 2021

Source: Reuters/Mike Hutchings/Illustration

Markets & Investment

South Africa's rand recovers

29 Nov 2021

Source: Reuters/Sumaya Hisham

Covid-19

Omicron explained: Why scientists are worried

Alistair Smout, Alexander Winning, Tim Cocks, Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo, Stephanie Nebehay 28 Nov 2021

Source: ©alena-shekhovtcova

Covid-19

New vaccine tailored to Omicron can be ready in 100 days

28 Nov 2021

Source: Department of Health

Covid-19

Covid-19: New variant with multiple mutations detected in SA

Danette Breitenbach 25 Nov 2021

TV

Lessons from TV

Colin Ramparsadh 17 Nov 2021

Some of the most vulnerable are yet to receive their first dose. Hanna Kuprevich/Alamy Stock Photo

Covid-19

Covid-19: WHO calls for moratorium on booster shots - is it justifiable?

Jonathan Pugh, Dominic Wilkinson & Julian Savulescu 16 Aug 2021

Winning the war for inbox attention: Simple strategies to land your Black Friday emails

Digital

Winning the war for inbox attention: Simple strategies to land your Black Friday emails

Issued by Everlytic 27 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

The next pandemic is already happening - targeted disease surveillance can help prevent it

Infectious Diseases

The next pandemic is already happening - targeted disease surveillance can help prevent it

Maureen Miller 3 Jun 2021

Mark Ainsworth, head, coronavirus research, Schroders

Covid-19

How much of a threat is the India variant?

28 May 2021

Professor Shabir Madhi

Covid-19

Covid-19 is here to stay

21 Apr 2021

Covid-19

New Covid variants have changed the game, and vaccines will not be enough. We need global 'maximum suppression'

Salim Abdool Karim 6 Apr 2021

Ebola virus virion. CDC/Cynthia Goldsmith

Infectious Diseases

Ebola might be a chronic infection - but here's why we shouldn't panic

Connor Bamford 1 Apr 2021

Study: SA variant could have emerged in E Cape after first wave

Covid-19

Study: SA variant could have emerged in E Cape after first wave

18 Mar 2021

A Phase I Covid-19 vaccine trial is about to start in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. Photo: Armin Kübelbeck (CC-BY-SA via Wikimedia Commons)

Covid-19

A new vaccine is being tested in Cape Town: Here's why it's different

Michael Cherry 19 Feb 2021

Covid-19

How the coronavirus mutates and what this means for the future of Covid-19

Ed Rybicki, Anna-Lise Williamson, Don Cowan & Stephanie G Burton 17 Feb 2021

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Covid-19

Covid vaccine weekly: developing boosters for new mutations

Rob Reddick 8 Feb 2021

Study shows that the Novavax vaccine is effective against the dominant variant of Covid-19 in South Africa. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Covid-19

Results from Novavax vaccine trials in the UK and South Africa differ: why, and does it matter?

Ina Skosana 2 Feb 2021

A healthcare worker fills a syringe with a dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine. Nick Potts/PA Images via Getty Images

Covid-19

Some key questions answered on Covid-19 vaccines for African countries

Ina Skosana & Ozayr Patel 19 Jan 2021

Mutant roots reveal how we can grow crops in damaged soils

Research & Development

Mutant roots reveal how we can grow crops in damaged soils

Malcolm Bennett, Bipin Pandey and Sacha Mooney 18 Jan 2021

Malaria

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

Segun Isaac Oyedeji 20 Oct 2020

Heritable genome editing not yet ready to be tried safely and effectively in humans

Ethics & Medicolegal

Heritable genome editing not yet ready to be tried safely and effectively in humans

10 Sep 2020

Nigerian scientists are working to better understand coronavirus. African Center of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Disease

Covid-19

Nigerian scientists have identified seven lineages of SARS-CoV-2: why it matters

Christian Happi 7 Sep 2020

Normal blood cells (left) and the blood cells in sickle cell disease, which do not flow through the circulatory system smoothly. Credit: Darryl Leja, NHGRI (CC BY 2.0)

Medical Research

UCT professor's research offers hope of treatment for sickle cell anaemia

Elsabé Brits 3 Sep 2020

A man being tested as he takes part in an ophthalmological study and examination. Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images

Ophthalmology

How African genetic studies offer hope for preventing a common cause of blindness

Susan Williams 22 Apr 2020

Stray cows rest on a New Delhi street during a one-day civil curfew to combat coronavirus. Cattle may have been central to a coronavirus outbreak in 1890. Yawar Nazir/Getty Images

Covid-19

A brief history of the coronavirus family - including one pandemic we might have missed

Burtram Fielding 25 Mar 2020

Commonly used antibiotics are no longer working. solarseven/ Shutterstock

Medical Research

Antibiotic resistance: new discovery could change the future of treatment

David Moyes & Victoria Carr 25 Feb 2020

David A. Litman/Shutterstock

Oncology

Genetic secrets of almost 2,700 cancers unveiled by landmark international project

Melissa Southey 6 Feb 2020