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|  | | While healthcare providers must accelerate their digital health maturity as it directly improves operational efficiencies, quality of patient care and improves protection of personal and sensitive information, it also provides a greater platform and risk for cyberattacks...read |
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| |  | ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM The BizFix Special is aimed at minimising the cuts and bruises of recent months by putting your company on Bizcommunity's front pages, a sort of 'kiss it better' first aid kit for small and medium enterprises... Read |
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| |  | CHRISTIAN HAPPI By the first week of August 2020 the Covid-19 pandemic had caused about 654,000 deaths worldwide... Read |  | The Health Department has launched a new mobile application - Covid Alert SA - to strengthen South Africa's digital contact tracing efforts... Read |  | JAMES STENT A large Cape Town survey of pregnant women attending public antental clinics, as well as people with HIV, suggests many people in the city have already been infected with the virus that causes Covid-19... Read |  | ISSUED BY BONITAS With Covid-19 lockdown restrictions easing and schools starting to open again, there is a growing concern around the safety of teachers and learners... Read |
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 | WOLFGANG PREISER & GERT VAN ZYL The Covid-19 pandemic tends to conceal other important health issues. One of these is the global target for reducing HIV infections and increasing access to treatment... Read |
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| Chronic Diseases |
 | MAGDALENE MONTGOMERY & MATTHEW WATT A newly discovered protein produced by the liver, and which helps to control blood sugar levels, could potentially revolutionise treatment for type 2 diabetes... Read |
| Medical Research |
 | ELSABÉ BRITS A study performed in Cameroon by a University of Cape Town professor may offer hope of treatment for people with sickle cell anaemia (SCA), a disease which affects hundreds of thousands in Africa... Read |
| Medical Technology |
 | Covid19 has challenged every industry - especially healthcare - to think differently, rely on data, target action and rapidly trial new models of care and technology in the race to save lives and preserve health... Read |
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 | JESSICA TENNANT VMLY&R SA's Live from The Edge presented both local and global thought leaders talking to the theme 'From Cultural Clichés to Brand Authenticity', addressing cultural relevance in the African context. Here, HeyHuman's Neil Davidson and Unilever's Lethepu Matshaba's thoughts on the subject... Read |
 | Africa needs to do a better job of attracting exploration investment as the global competition increases... Read |
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 | CATHERINE WIJNBERG As South Africa battles the twin effects of illness and lockdown the time is ripe to consider carefully how and where South Africans spend their money... Read |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG Despite the devastating economic impacts of Covid-19, the franchising sector could remain a viable business investment for aspiring entrepreneurs... Read |
 | BRONWYN WILLIAMS Bronwyn Williams highlights her key learnings in Lionel Shriver's The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 and Edward Snowden's Permanent Record to emphasise that as we submit to further infringements on our privacy, freedom of speech, and freedom of movement in the effort to stop the spread of Covid-19, we must ensure that emergency measures designed to fight a temporary crisis do not become a permanent feature... Read |
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