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South African healthcare earns global recognition

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

Research and innovation key to safeguarding SA’s health resiliency

27 Jun 2024

How environmental toxins and pollution affect our health, by Medshield

How environmental toxins and pollution affect our health, by Medshield

25 Jun 2024

Global evidence suggests that alcohol advertisements increase adolescents’ favourable attitudes towards drinking. Shutterstock

How easy access to alcohol, and adverts, affect women in South Africa

Leslie London & Neo Morojele 30 Jan 2019

Personalised medicine aims to tailor treatment according to each person’s genetic makeup. Shutterstock

Why African countries need to give genomic research a major boost

Lamech Mwapagha 30 Jan 2019

Construction starts on SU's Biomedical Research Institute

28 Jan 2019

Are genetics a factor in individual injury risk profiles?

Are genetics a factor in individual injury risk profiles?

24 Jan 2019

Risk of suicide - as well as depression - found in the genome

Risk of suicide - as well as depression - found in the genome

24 Jan 2019

Yale scientists examine how an immune system protein helps suppress HIV

Yale scientists examine how an immune system protein helps suppress HIV

Ziba Kashef 23 Jan 2019

Gregory Scherrer and his collaborators have identified in mice an ensemble of cells that seems to specifically function as an on-off switch for pain aversion.
Paul Sakuma

Researchers discover the brain cells that make pain unpleasant

18 Jan 2019

New sensor monitors blood flow after vascular surgery

17 Jan 2019

Why does malaria recur? How pieces of the puzzle are slowly being filled in

Miles B Markus 17 Jan 2019

Around 18% of previously treated TB cases are drug resistant. Shutterstock

How we used computers to figure out drugs that can beat drug-resistant TB

Ruben Cloete 16 Jan 2019

Professor Sally-Ann Cryan

Breakthrough in TB treatment

8 Jan 2019

#BizTrends2019: How AI is reshaping pharmaceutical R&D

#BizTrends2019: How AI is reshaping pharmaceutical R&D

7 Jan 2019

An image of a string adhesion between the liver and the intestine. The cell nuclei are stained white.
Jonathan Tsai

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

Study: Understanding chemo brain

Erin Digitale 2 Jan 2019

Widespread, occasional use of antibiotics in US linked with resistance

Widespread, occasional use of antibiotics in US linked with resistance

19 Dec 2018

There’s a significant variation in pain sensitivity and tolerance. Shutterstock

Unpacking pain: what causes it and why it's hard to measure

Antonia Wadley & Peter Kamerman 19 Dec 2018

#BestofBiz 2018: Healthcare

#BestofBiz 2018: Healthcare

18 Dec 2018

Babies to order. Andrew Crotty/Shutterstock.com

Those designer babies everyone is freaking out about - it's not likely to happen

A Cecile JW Janssens 14 Dec 2018

Professor Musa Mhlanga

Unravelling how immune genes work

13 Dec 2018

Necsa board replaced

10 Dec 2018

Genetics may be the key to new epilepsy therapies

Genetics may be the key to new epilepsy therapies

10 Dec 2018

Nthabiseng Mokoena. Photo: Leonie Bolleurs

UFS researcher one step closer to treating HIV/Aids

7 Dec 2018

Professor Kelly Chibale. Photo: Je'nine May

R&D is the pipeline for science jobs in Africa

5 Dec 2018

Minister of Health of Burkina Faso, Professor Nicolas Meda and Minister of Health of Rwanda, Dr Diane Gashumba

Addressing neglected tropical diseases

4 Dec 2018

He Jiankui, a Chinese researcher, speaks during the Human Genome Editing Conference in Hong Kong, Nov. 28, 2018. He made his first public comments about his claim of making the world’s first gene-edited babies.
AP Photo/Kin Cheung

How a scientist says he made a gene-edited baby - and what health worries may ensue

George Seidel 3 Dec 2018

Decade3D-Anatomy/Shutterstock

Surgery, not antibiotics, should remain first-line treatment for appendicitis

23 Nov 2018

MediFin announces its Top Loyalty Partners for 2018

MediFin announces its Top Loyalty Partners for 2018

Medifin Financial Services 21 Nov 2018

Jamani Caillet/EPFL

Spinal implant breakthroughs are helping people with paraplegia walk again

19 Nov 2018

Using the eye to "see" diseases of the brain

Using the eye to "see" diseases of the brain

16 Nov 2018

Yellow mongoose probably don’t come to mind when thinking of scavengers - but they have been found to scavenge and scatter body parts. Jonathan Pledger/Shutterstock

How scavengers can help forensic scientists identify human corpses

Victoria Gibbon 15 Nov 2018

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Construction starts on SU's Biomedical Research Institute

28 Jan 2019

Are genetics a factor in individual injury risk profiles?

Are genetics a factor in individual injury risk profiles?

24 Jan 2019

Risk of suicide - as well as depression - found in the genome

Risk of suicide - as well as depression - found in the genome

24 Jan 2019

Yale scientists examine how an immune system protein helps suppress HIV

Yale scientists examine how an immune system protein helps suppress HIV

Ziba Kashef 23 Jan 2019

Gregory Scherrer and his collaborators have identified in mice an ensemble of cells that seems to specifically function as an on-off switch for pain aversion.
Paul Sakuma

Researchers discover the brain cells that make pain unpleasant

18 Jan 2019

New sensor monitors blood flow after vascular surgery

17 Jan 2019

Why does malaria recur? How pieces of the puzzle are slowly being filled in

Miles B Markus 17 Jan 2019

Around 18% of previously treated TB cases are drug resistant. Shutterstock

How we used computers to figure out drugs that can beat drug-resistant TB

Ruben Cloete 16 Jan 2019

Professor Sally-Ann Cryan

Breakthrough in TB treatment

8 Jan 2019

#BizTrends2019: How AI is reshaping pharmaceutical R&D

#BizTrends2019: How AI is reshaping pharmaceutical R&D

7 Jan 2019

An image of a string adhesion between the liver and the intestine. The cell nuclei are stained white.
Jonathan Tsai

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

Study: Understanding chemo brain

Erin Digitale 2 Jan 2019

Widespread, occasional use of antibiotics in US linked with resistance

Widespread, occasional use of antibiotics in US linked with resistance

19 Dec 2018

There’s a significant variation in pain sensitivity and tolerance. Shutterstock

Unpacking pain: what causes it and why it's hard to measure

Antonia Wadley & Peter Kamerman 19 Dec 2018

#BestofBiz 2018: Healthcare

#BestofBiz 2018: Healthcare

18 Dec 2018

Babies to order. Andrew Crotty/Shutterstock.com

Those designer babies everyone is freaking out about - it's not likely to happen

A Cecile JW Janssens 14 Dec 2018

Professor Musa Mhlanga

Unravelling how immune genes work

13 Dec 2018

Necsa board replaced

10 Dec 2018

Genetics may be the key to new epilepsy therapies

Genetics may be the key to new epilepsy therapies

10 Dec 2018

Nthabiseng Mokoena. Photo: Leonie Bolleurs

UFS researcher one step closer to treating HIV/Aids

7 Dec 2018

Professor Kelly Chibale. Photo: Je'nine May

R&D is the pipeline for science jobs in Africa

5 Dec 2018

Minister of Health of Burkina Faso, Professor Nicolas Meda and Minister of Health of Rwanda, Dr Diane Gashumba

Addressing neglected tropical diseases

4 Dec 2018

He Jiankui, a Chinese researcher, speaks during the Human Genome Editing Conference in Hong Kong, Nov. 28, 2018. He made his first public comments about his claim of making the world’s first gene-edited babies.
AP Photo/Kin Cheung

How a scientist says he made a gene-edited baby - and what health worries may ensue

George Seidel 3 Dec 2018

Decade3D-Anatomy/Shutterstock

Surgery, not antibiotics, should remain first-line treatment for appendicitis

23 Nov 2018

MediFin announces its Top Loyalty Partners for 2018

MediFin announces its Top Loyalty Partners for 2018

Medifin Financial Services 21 Nov 2018

Jamani Caillet/EPFL

Spinal implant breakthroughs are helping people with paraplegia walk again

19 Nov 2018

Using the eye to "see" diseases of the brain

Using the eye to "see" diseases of the brain

16 Nov 2018

Yellow mongoose probably don’t come to mind when thinking of scavengers - but they have been found to scavenge and scatter body parts. Jonathan Pledger/Shutterstock

How scavengers can help forensic scientists identify human corpses

Victoria Gibbon 15 Nov 2018

Study: Indentifying those who die at sea

Study: Indentifying those who die at sea

12 Nov 2018

Zambezi Valley may soon be too hot for tsetse flies

Zambezi Valley may soon be too hot for tsetse flies

Wiida Fourie-Basson 5 Nov 2018

SU study will look at synthetic blood products

SU study will look at synthetic blood products

1 Nov 2018

Study: More black South Africans are donating blood

Study: More black South Africans are donating blood

31 Oct 2018

First-for-Africa platform will advance gene research

First-for-Africa platform will advance gene research

Nicci Botha 31 Oct 2018

Most people are infected with the herpes simplex virus by the time they reach old age. Spectral-Design/Shutterstock.com

Alzheimer's disease: mounting evidence that herpes virus is a cause

Ruth Itzhaki 29 Oct 2018

Corporate content should be part of your DNA

Corporate content should be part of your DNA

Bizcommunity.com 24 Oct 2018

Study: Escalating civil cases against private hospitals due to nursing malpractice

Study: Escalating civil cases against private hospitals due to nursing malpractice

24 Oct 2018

Bizcommunity Recruitment in Africa Focus

Bizcommunity Recruitment in Africa Focus

Bizcommunity.com 23 Oct 2018

The WHO recommends HIV viral load testing to monitor people on ARVs. Shutterstock

How innovation can help end the Aids epidemic by 2030

Glenda Gray 23 Oct 2018

What's needed to do a better job of pre-empting disease outbreaks

William B Karesh 22 Oct 2018

Euan Ashley. Photo: Steve Fisch

Hundreds of patients with undiagnosed diseases find answers

18 Oct 2018

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