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Honour Jenna Lowe's legacy
If she'd still been alive, organ donors across the country would have been preparing to celebrate Jenna Lowe's 21st. Sadly she passed away a few months early - but you can still honour her legacy... read


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The Global Awards invites students to enter the 2015 Young Globals student competition and internship program

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The Global Awards second annual Young Globals competition and internship program is open for entries... read
CSI
Polio eradication initiative receives $40.4m from Rotary
The global effort to end polio is receiving an additional $40.4m boost from Rotary to support immunisation activities and surveillance spearheaded by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative... read
Medical Research
How healthy is SA?
Health24 recently conducted a comprehensive online survey, sponsored by FedHealth, into the health of South Africans... read
New research on diabetes launches globally
AstraZeneca has launched Discover, a global observational study of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in real world settings... read
Medical Technology
TomTom partners with Dutch Embassy in co-creating SA
TomTom is partnering with the Dutch Embassy on the up and coming House of the Future #CoCreate project where leaders and stakeholders will come together to generate solutions for shared challenges... read
Nutrition
Obesity is more than BMI
The Biokinetics Association of South Africa (BASA) has called for the definition and management of 'obesity' to be revisited... read
Free diabetes recipe book launched
In November, National Diabetes Awareness Month, well-known foodie, Heleen Meyer, in partnership with Pharma Dynamics, the Centre for Diabetes and Endocrinology (CDE) and the Heart and Stroke Foundation SA (HSFSA) will launch a free diabetes-focussed recipe book... read
Public Health
Keep energy levels high when travelling

Nicholas Barenblatt

While I enjoy the opportunity to see new places and experience different foods, travelling regularly for work has its challenges in terms of keeping one's energy levels high... read
Business
South African swagger won't work in Africa

Michael Wood

There are a few fundamental practices that need a fresh approach if we are going to embrace a united African economy, something that will benefit the whole of Africa and not just us... read
Jobs offered
Head - Doctoral Office - Medicine and Health Sciences - Western Cape
Stellenbosch University currently seeks to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced head: doctoral office (Ref. TGB00/350/1015). Applications close: 16 November 2015 Read more >>



Professor/Associate Professor - Bioinformatics - Western Cape
Stellenbosch University currently seeks to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced professor/associate professor - Bioinformatics (Ref.NW01/360/1015). Applications close: 27 November 2015 Read more >>




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