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Education & Training

How training and recruitment can transform patient safety in South Africa

18 Sep 2025

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Oncology

SA unites with gold ribbons to spotlight childhood cancer

16 Sep 2025

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Higher Education

Finalists for the 2025 Women in Science Awards

8 Aug 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

Surgical Procedures

Mandela Day: Gauteng's health initiative clears surgery backlog

18 Jul 2024

Women's Health

Caesarean births: South Africa’s rates are too high – they can be dangerous for mothers and babies

Priya Soma-Pillay and Andre Van Niekerk 27 May 2024

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Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Caesarean births: SA’s rates are too high – they can be dangerous for mothers and babies

Priya Soma-Pillay and Andre van Niekerk 7 May 2024

Source: Supplied. Founder and medical director of Child Accra, Juliette Tuakli.

Healthcare

"And the Lifetime Achievement in Healthcare at AHAS Summit goes to..."

3 May 2024

Big companies, like Nestlé, are funding health research in South Africa - why this is wrong

Research

Big companies, like Nestlé, are funding health research in South Africa - why this is wrong

Susan Goldstein, Mark Tomlinson, Rachel Wynberg and Tanya Doherty 5 Mar 2024

Source: Supplied.

Hospital Groups

Mediclinic Southern Africa expands into precision medicine

2 Feb 2023

Source: Supplied.

Cardiology

The 8 health hazards of watching TV

3 Jan 2023

Antibiotics shortages: What's causing them and how countries can minimise the impact

Healthcare

Antibiotics shortages: What's causing them and how countries can minimise the impact

Kostas Selviaridis and Nonhlanhla Dube 21 Dec 2022

PMI event sponsorship "tantamount to tobacco advertising" - civil society orgs

Retail Marketing

PMI event sponsorship "tantamount to tobacco advertising" - civil society orgs

7 Nov 2022

Public Health

Dozens of child deaths prompt Gambia to suspend paracetamol syrup sales

Pap Saine 14 Sep 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

Source: Supplied

Health & Beauty

Babies R Us SA rolls out in-store clinics

8 Sep 2021

Family members of Covid-19 infected patients stand in a queue with empty oxygen cylinders outside the oxygen filling centre in New Delhi, India. Photo by Naveen Sharma/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Covid-19

It's possible to build stronger systems to deliver oxygen: here's what it takes

Hamish Graham & Adegoke Falade 10 May 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

#WorldTBDay2021: Adolescents with perinatally acquired HIV at increased risk

Tuberculosis

#WorldTBDay2021: Adolescents with perinatally acquired HIV at increased risk

24 Mar 2021

Covid-19 shows gender bias: men more likely to need critical care

Covid-19

Covid-19 shows gender bias: men more likely to need critical care

10 Dec 2020

Professor Adrie Bekker

HIV/AIDS

Study investigates best treatment options for newborns exposed to HIV

27 Nov 2020

UKZN’s Emeritus Professor Anna Coutsoudis

HIV/AIDS

SA study recommends changes to PMTCT guidelines

10 Nov 2020

Children’s health and nutrition is severely affected by the pandemic. Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images

Covid-19

South Africa needs a plan to protect children's health beyond Covid-19

Ute Feucht 28 Aug 2020

Dr Lizelle van Wyk and Professor Pierre Goussard

Covid-19

Snorkel masks protect health workers from Covid-19

26 Aug 2020

Why Africa needs more antibiotic trials involving children

Medical Research

Why Africa needs more antibiotic trials involving children

Pui-Ying Iroh Tam 4 Aug 2020

Pop-up pediatric Covid-19 unit opens in Paarl

Covid-19

Pop-up pediatric Covid-19 unit opens in Paarl

Issued by Jenny Griesel Communications 5 May 2020

Paediatrics

Newborns in developing countries need better protection from common bacteria

19 Mar 2020

A living example of the new breed of CAs(SA)

Accounting & Auditing

A living example of the new breed of CAs(SA)

Lisa Witepski, Issued by SAICA 27 Jan 2020

HIV/AIDS

New estimates show 14.8 million children globally are HIV-exposed but uninfected

Amy Slogrove & Kathleen M Powis 13 Jan 2020

HIV/AIDS

South Africa steps up its game to end mother-to-child transmission of HIV

Ute Feuch & Jeannette Wessels 9 Jan 2020

There is growing awareness of the negative impact of ‘parachute research’. Shutterstock

Medical Research

Lack of equity and diversity still plague global health research

Madhukar Pai 22 Nov 2019

Grant to fund child-friendly TB treatments

Tuberculosis

Grant to fund child-friendly TB treatments

22 Oct 2019

Mikah Saunders and her dad, Deon, in Red Cross Children's Hospital's new haemotology-oncology unit.

Oncology

Red Cross upgrade changes the lives of young cancer warriors

12 Sep 2019

Mediclinic begins operations from new Stellenbosch hospital

Property Development

Mediclinic begins operations from new Stellenbosch hospital

16 Jul 2019

Kia Motors supports Kids Kicking Cancer SA

Automotive

Kia Motors supports Kids Kicking Cancer SA

26 Jun 2019

Many children in South Africa are in pain because they do cannot access palliative care medicines. Photo: Flickr user John Campbell (public domain)

Paediatrics

Children are dying in pain because they cannot get the medicines they need

Michelle Meiring 15 Mar 2019

Photo: Kim Cloete

HIV/AIDS

Community-wide HIV prevention strategy can reduce new infections

Kim Cloete 5 Mar 2019

The largest number of HIV-exposed but uninfected children are in South Africa. Shutterstock

HIV/AIDS

Babies born to mums with HIV face higher risks even though they're HIV negative

Amy Slogrove, Kathleen M Powis & Mary-Ann Davies 29 Nov 2018

Professor Soraya Seedat. Photo: Damien Schumann

Mental health

#WomensMonth: Probing the secrets of mind, body and soul

Jeanne van der Merwe 3 Aug 2018

Genetic variation in progesterone receptor tied to prematurity risk

Paediatrics

Genetic variation in progesterone receptor tied to prematurity risk

Erin Digitale 16 Jul 2018

Wits joins network to expand paediatric care in Africa

Paediatrics

Wits joins network to expand paediatric care in Africa

6 Jun 2018

Dr William Mapham.
Image © Christopher Larson/Scott Gorman.

Design Indaba

#Designindaba2018: SA's crowd-sourced solution for a global problem

Sue Disler 22 Feb 2018