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Is medicine cure? Treatment? Healing? Understanding? Or a bit of all those things. Kenishiroti/Shutterstock

What is medicine? Why it's so important to answer this question

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People living in run-down, inner city apartments, like these in Cairo, are at risk of heat-stress health problems. Shutterstock

How global warming is adding to the health risks of poor people

Lenore Manderson 28 Jan 2019

10 biggest threats to global health

10 biggest threats to global health

15 Jan 2019

While women in sub-Saharan Africa live longer than men, many of these extra years are lived in poor health. Shutterstock

People in Africa live longer. But their health is poor in those extra years

Charles Shey Wiysonge 20 Dec 2018

#BestofBiz 2018: Healthcare

#BestofBiz 2018: Healthcare

18 Dec 2018

Jose Fernando Arevalo

Cancer drug offers more affordable treatment for diabetic retinopathy

12 Dec 2018

The life expectancy improvements in sub-Saharan Africa vary between men and women. Shutterstock

Lifestyle diseases could scupper Africa's rising life expectancy

Charles Shey Wiysonge 27 Nov 2018

Bizcommunity Recruitment in Africa Focus

Bizcommunity Recruitment in Africa Focus

Bizcommunity.com 23 Oct 2018

Increasing cholesterol medication adherence with financial incentives may be cost-effective

Increasing cholesterol medication adherence with financial incentives may be cost-effective

16 Oct 2018

The best Biz summer holiday (content) package ever!

The best Biz summer holiday (content) package ever!

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Photo: Western Cape Government

Thousands of us die from these illnesses each day. Will it ever end?

Yogan Pillay 11 Oct 2018

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Tackle Africa's chronic diseases with effective actions

Sam Otieno 18 Sep 2018

A small hospital in Wakiso district in the central region of Uganda. Shutterstock

People across Africa have to travel far to get to a hospital. We worked out how far

Paul Ouma & Emelda Okiro 14 Sep 2018

Professor Annalise Zemlin. Photo: Damien Schumann

Getting the balance right in detecting diabetes

Jorisna Bonthuys 10 Sep 2018

Dr Sophia Kisting-Cairncross

Trust has paid out R134m compensation to silicosis sufferers

29 Aug 2018

NCDs are the biggest killer in poorer countries

NCDs are the biggest killer in poorer countries

27 Jul 2018

Pilot programme to expand access to care for NCDs

Pilot programme to expand access to care for NCDs

10 Jul 2018

Clinics manage hypertension patients better when more hands are on deck

Clinics manage hypertension patients better when more hands are on deck

5 Jul 2018

Brics countries must step up on healthcare

Brics countries must step up on healthcare

20 Jun 2018

Health systems rarely consider that patients switch between hospitals or primary healthcare centres and indigenous medicine for their health issues. Direct Relief/Tobin Greensweig

Why indigenous medicine could play a role in rebuilding health systems

Jean-Benoit Falisse and Serena Masino 20 Jun 2018

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general

WHO calls for urgent action against NCDs

4 Jun 2018

Professor Mark Collison of the South African Population Research Infrastructure Network

What population growth will do to health and communities

29 May 2018

Source: Merck Foundation

Merck Foundation continues training oncologists in Africa to combat emerging cancer crisis

9 May 2018

UCT research focus on combating poverty-related heart disease in Africa

UCT research focus on combating poverty-related heart disease in Africa

7 May 2018

Tertius Troost, tax consultant at Mazars

The not-so-sweet consequences of sugar tax

3 May 2018

Dr Andre Kengne

Diabesity on the increase in young African women

2 May 2018

Health tax deterrent goes up in smoke

Health tax deterrent goes up in smoke

11 Apr 2018

The big four - know your numbers

The big four - know your numbers

Bonitas 26 Feb 2018

Sugar tax is 'lite' in combatting obesity and diabetes

Sugar tax is 'lite' in combatting obesity and diabetes

26 Feb 2018

Graham Briggs. Photo: Towerstone

#miningindaba18: Miners face delay in pact over silicosis class action

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Is medicine cure? Treatment? Healing? Understanding? Or a bit of all those things. Kenishiroti/Shutterstock

What is medicine? Why it's so important to answer this question

1 Feb 2019

People living in run-down, inner city apartments, like these in Cairo, are at risk of heat-stress health problems. Shutterstock

How global warming is adding to the health risks of poor people

Lenore Manderson 28 Jan 2019

10 biggest threats to global health

10 biggest threats to global health

15 Jan 2019

While women in sub-Saharan Africa live longer than men, many of these extra years are lived in poor health. Shutterstock

People in Africa live longer. But their health is poor in those extra years

Charles Shey Wiysonge 20 Dec 2018

#BestofBiz 2018: Healthcare

#BestofBiz 2018: Healthcare

18 Dec 2018

Jose Fernando Arevalo

Cancer drug offers more affordable treatment for diabetic retinopathy

12 Dec 2018

The life expectancy improvements in sub-Saharan Africa vary between men and women. Shutterstock

Lifestyle diseases could scupper Africa's rising life expectancy

Charles Shey Wiysonge 27 Nov 2018

Bizcommunity Recruitment in Africa Focus

Bizcommunity Recruitment in Africa Focus

Bizcommunity.com 23 Oct 2018

Increasing cholesterol medication adherence with financial incentives may be cost-effective

Increasing cholesterol medication adherence with financial incentives may be cost-effective

16 Oct 2018

The best Biz summer holiday (content) package ever!

The best Biz summer holiday (content) package ever!

Bizcommunity.com 15 Oct 2018

Photo: Western Cape Government

Thousands of us die from these illnesses each day. Will it ever end?

Yogan Pillay 11 Oct 2018

Piron Giullaume/Unsplash

Tackle Africa's chronic diseases with effective actions

Sam Otieno 18 Sep 2018

A small hospital in Wakiso district in the central region of Uganda. Shutterstock

People across Africa have to travel far to get to a hospital. We worked out how far

Paul Ouma & Emelda Okiro 14 Sep 2018

Professor Annalise Zemlin. Photo: Damien Schumann

Getting the balance right in detecting diabetes

Jorisna Bonthuys 10 Sep 2018

Dr Sophia Kisting-Cairncross

Trust has paid out R134m compensation to silicosis sufferers

29 Aug 2018

NCDs are the biggest killer in poorer countries

NCDs are the biggest killer in poorer countries

27 Jul 2018

Pilot programme to expand access to care for NCDs

Pilot programme to expand access to care for NCDs

10 Jul 2018

Clinics manage hypertension patients better when more hands are on deck

Clinics manage hypertension patients better when more hands are on deck

5 Jul 2018

Brics countries must step up on healthcare

Brics countries must step up on healthcare

20 Jun 2018

Health systems rarely consider that patients switch between hospitals or primary healthcare centres and indigenous medicine for their health issues. Direct Relief/Tobin Greensweig

Why indigenous medicine could play a role in rebuilding health systems

Jean-Benoit Falisse and Serena Masino 20 Jun 2018

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general

WHO calls for urgent action against NCDs

4 Jun 2018

Professor Mark Collison of the South African Population Research Infrastructure Network

What population growth will do to health and communities

29 May 2018

Source: Merck Foundation

Merck Foundation continues training oncologists in Africa to combat emerging cancer crisis

9 May 2018

UCT research focus on combating poverty-related heart disease in Africa

UCT research focus on combating poverty-related heart disease in Africa

7 May 2018

Tertius Troost, tax consultant at Mazars

The not-so-sweet consequences of sugar tax

3 May 2018

Dr Andre Kengne

Diabesity on the increase in young African women

2 May 2018

Health tax deterrent goes up in smoke

Health tax deterrent goes up in smoke

11 Apr 2018

The big four - know your numbers

The big four - know your numbers

Bonitas 26 Feb 2018

Sugar tax is 'lite' in combatting obesity and diabetes

Sugar tax is 'lite' in combatting obesity and diabetes

26 Feb 2018

Graham Briggs. Photo: Towerstone

#miningindaba18: Miners face delay in pact over silicosis class action

9 Feb 2018

Shaping the future of African healthcare: Finalists for DHCT Accelerator Programme announced

Shaping the future of African healthcare: Finalists for DHCT Accelerator Programme announced

22 Jan 2018

Eat green 2018: Sustainable consumption, plant-based foods the order of the day

Eat green 2018: Sustainable consumption, plant-based foods the order of the day

19 Jan 2018

Putting money where the mouth is - sugar, public health and the advertising industry

Putting money where the mouth is - sugar, public health and the advertising industry

Deborah Minors 18 Jan 2018

In defence of the fruit fly

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Driverless cars could be better or worse for our health - it's up to us

Driverless cars could be better or worse for our health - it's up to us

Jim Sallis 12 Jan 2018

Sugar tax and its bitter economic aftertaste

Sugar tax and its bitter economic aftertaste

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For Gabon's sickly uranium miners, a long quest for compensation

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Africa faces a sharp rise in diabetes prevalence

Africa faces a sharp rise in diabetes prevalence

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Women and diabetes in the spotlight this November

Women and diabetes in the spotlight this November

Association for Dietetics in South Africa 14 Nov 2017

Diabetes treatment goals still suboptimal

Diabetes treatment goals still suboptimal

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