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Cohsasa appoints new board members

Healthcare

Cohsasa appoints new board members

Issued by COHSASA 1 Sep 2023

Healthcare

ChatGPT has many uses. Experts explore what this means for healthcare and medical research

Keymanthri Moodley and Stuart Rennie 9 May 2023

Defining what's ethical in artificial intelligence needs input from Africans

ICT

Defining what's ethical in artificial intelligence needs input from Africans

Mary Carman, Benjamin Rosman 29 Nov 2021

Workers at India’s biggest syringe manufacturer ramp up production in September 2020 in race to meet Covid-19 vaccine-driven demand. Photo by SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images

Healthcare

Why India is banking on health diplomacy to grow African footprint

Dan Banik & Renu Modik 26 Mar 2021

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

Healthcare

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

10 Sep 2020

A researcher performs a CRISPR/Cas9 process at the Max-Delbrueck-Centre for Molecular Medicine in Germany . Gregor Fischer/picture alliance via Getty Images

Healthcare

Covid-19 and gene editing: ethical and legal considerations

Sheetal Soni 25 May 2020

Healthcare

Human gene editing: who decides the rules?

Sheetal Soni 16 Jan 2020

"I am Caster. Caster is me."

Marketing & Media

"I am Caster. Caster is me."

Amy Carmichael and Leigh Crymble 2 Aug 2019

Durban professor appointed Honorary Consul General Seychelles

Education

Durban professor appointed Honorary Consul General Seychelles

Issued by Regent Business School 27 May 2019

Did the Health Professions Council trade cash for qualifications?

Healthcare

Did the Health Professions Council trade cash for qualifications?

Roxy de Villiers 5 Apr 2019

With the right skills and infrastructure, Africa can boost its genomics research efforts. Dmytro Zinkevych/Shutterstock

Healthcare

Africa needs a heavy dose of investment in genomics research

Jenniffer Mabuka-Maroa 5 Apr 2019

Can patents help regulate future experimentation with designer babies?

Legal

Can patents help regulate future experimentation with designer babies?

Daniel Mak 5 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

Healthcare

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

George Seidel 3 Dec 2018

A new way to equip Africa's science labs: get students to build their own

Education

A new way to equip Africa's science labs: get students to build their own

Louise Bezuidenhout 6 Aug 2018

Professor Malegapuru Makgoba, the health ombudsman

Healthcare

3 lessons on ethics from the Life Esidimeni tragedy

3 Jul 2018

An ethical dilemma for doctors: When is it OK to prescribe opioids?

Healthcare

An ethical dilemma for doctors: When is it OK to prescribe opioids?

Travis N Rieder 9 Apr 2018

'Fire thousands of nurses who cheated'

Legal

'Fire thousands of nurses who cheated'

6 Jul 2017

Should dignified death be allowed?

Healthcare

Should dignified death be allowed?

12 May 2015

Healthcare

Wits Ethics Alive symposium this week

12 Mar 2013

Ethics Alive 2011 promises exciting line-up on bioethical issues

Healthcare

Ethics Alive 2011 promises exciting line-up on bioethical issues

11 Mar 2011

Ethics Alive 2011 - Justice in Healthcare

Healthcare

Ethics Alive 2011 - Justice in Healthcare

10 Feb 2011

Memorial donations for Dr Ivan May: suggested organisations

Marketing & Media

Memorial donations for Dr Ivan May: suggested organisations

11 Jan 2011

Healthcare

Would you want to select your future child's gender?

1 Mar 2010

Healthcare

New speaking book on clinical trials launched for low literacy areas

Issued by Magda Naude for the World Medical Association 18 Oct 2008

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