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Public Health

How reliable exactly are food-intolerance blood tests?

6 Jun 2024

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Public Health

AFSA highlights growing food allergy epidemic

5 Jun 2024

Getting to grips with flu

Infectious Diseases

Getting to grips with flu

Issued by Bonitas 17 Apr 2024

5 startups selected for the 2023 Irish Tech Challenge

Awards

5 startups selected for the 2023 Irish Tech Challenge

16 Nov 2023

Source: City of Hope.

Healthcare

Breakthroughs in medicine: top virologist on the two most important developments for Africa

Oyewale Tomori 2 Nov 2023

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Healthcare

#HIVToday: The company that's empowering South African youth with rapid HIV self testing

Katja Hamilton 21 Jun 2023

What you need to know about child vaccinations - Medshield

Paediatrics

What you need to know about child vaccinations - Medshield

Issued by Stone 22 May 2023

Are you ready for the winter flu? Things you need to know - Medshield

Medical Aid

Are you ready for the winter flu? Things you need to know - Medshield

Issued by Stone 5 May 2023

Towards a pro-breastfeeding culture in South Africa

Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Towards a pro-breastfeeding culture in South Africa

Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 2 Aug 2022

10 tips for flu and Covid-19 vaccines

Covid-19

10 tips for flu and Covid-19 vaccines

Issued by Bonitas 31 Mar 2022

Human, animal transmission

Covid-19

Human, animal transmission

Issued by University of Pretoria 7 Mar 2022

All about boosters

Covid-19

All about boosters

Issued by Bonitas 7 Feb 2022

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Covid-19

Boosting vaccine rollout and debunking Covid-19 myths

24 Jan 2022

Covid-19

SAMA delighted at the availability of booster shots

24 Dec 2021

Source: Reuters/Sumaya Hisham

Covid-19

Omicron explained: Why scientists are worried

Alistair Smout, Alexander Winning, Tim Cocks, Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo, Stephanie Nebehay 28 Nov 2021

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Healthcare

Breakthrough malaria vaccine offers to reinvigorate the fight against the disease

Eunice Anyango Owino 11 Oct 2021

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Covid-19

What's next in the Covid-19 pandemic?

28 Sep 2021

A healthcare worker administers the Johnson and Johnson coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccination to a woman in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 20 August, 2021. Reuters/ Sumaya Hisham/File Photo

Covid-19

South Africa detects new coronavirus variant, still studying its mutations

31 Aug 2021

A child gets a dose of the oral polio vaccine. Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images

Infectious Diseases

It's been a year since Africa was declared polio free. But a threat remains

Wayne Howard & Melinda Suchard 27 Aug 2021

International efforts should prioritise equitable access to vaccines. Immanuel A.Afolabi/Majority World/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Covid-19

The impact of Covid-19 has been lower in Africa. We explore the reasons

Alex Ezeh, Michael Silverman & Saverio Stranges 18 Aug 2021

Professor Felicity Burt

Covid-19

New variants of Covid-19 may prolong the duration of the virus

13 Aug 2021

Protecting breastfeeding is a shared responsibility

Nutrition

Protecting breastfeeding is a shared responsibility

Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 30 Jul 2021

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Covid-19

Study: Lower antibody activity against delta variant at single dose - but vaccines still work

Zania Stamataki 28 Jul 2021

Illustration: Lisa Nelson

Covid-19

Survey estimates half of all adults under 70 have likely had Covid-19

Michael Cherry 8 Jul 2021

The next pandemic is already happening - targeted disease surveillance can help prevent it

Infectious Diseases

The next pandemic is already happening - targeted disease surveillance can help prevent it

Maureen Miller 3 Jun 2021

Mark Ainsworth, head, coronavirus research, Schroders

Covid-19

How much of a threat is the India variant?

28 May 2021

People with HIV are still dying from a treatable, but neglected, disease: all it needs is a plan

HIV/AIDS

People with HIV are still dying from a treatable, but neglected, disease: all it needs is a plan

Gilles van Cutsem 17 May 2021

Ebola virus virion. CDC/Cynthia Goldsmith

Infectious Diseases

Ebola might be a chronic infection - but here's why we shouldn't panic

Connor Bamford 1 Apr 2021

Study: SA variant could have emerged in E Cape after first wave

Covid-19

Study: SA variant could have emerged in E Cape after first wave

18 Mar 2021

How an optimised vaccination programme can help improve farmer outputs

Agribusiness

How an optimised vaccination programme can help improve farmer outputs

18 Feb 2021

Covid-19

How the coronavirus mutates and what this means for the future of Covid-19

Ed Rybicki, Anna-Lise Williamson, Don Cowan & Stephanie G Burton 17 Feb 2021

Illustration: Lisa Nelson

Covid-19

Covid-19: Remarkable results from blood donor survey

Michael Cherry and Nathan Geffen 15 Feb 2021

FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a protective face mask walks past an illustration of a virus outside a regional science centre amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, in Oldham, Britain August 3, 2020. REUTERS/Phil Noble/File Photo

Covid-19

Recovered Covid patients likely protected for at least six months, study finds

Kate Kelland 9 Feb 2021

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Covid-19

Covid vaccine weekly: developing boosters for new mutations

Rob Reddick 8 Feb 2021

Variants, vaccines, and virology - are we protected?

Covid-19

Variants, vaccines, and virology - are we protected?

Felicity Burt, Dominique Goedhals & Sabeeha Vawda 4 Feb 2021

The lowdown on Covid-19 test protocols

Covid-19

The lowdown on Covid-19 test protocols

Issued by Bonitas 2 Feb 2021

Study shows that the Novavax vaccine is effective against the dominant variant of Covid-19 in South Africa. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Covid-19

Results from Novavax vaccine trials in the UK and South Africa differ: why, and does it matter?

Ina Skosana 2 Feb 2021

Professor Marc Mendelson

Covid-19

Third wave is on its way, if rapid vaccine roll out falters

26 Jan 2021

Health care workers and patients in the temporary outside area Steve Biko Academic Hospital created to screen and treat suspected Covid-19 cases in Pretoria. Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images via Getty Images

Covid-19

South African scientists who discovered new Covid-19 variant share what they know

Willem Hanekom & Tulio de Oliveira 25 Jan 2021

Leading scientists speculate that vaccines will help us get to a point where SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, will be just another common cold. Illustration: Lisa Nelson

Covid-19

Will vaccines eradicate SARS-CoV-2?

James Stent 18 Jan 2021

Severe Covid may be caused by 'autoantibodies' - here is what that means

Medical Research

Severe Covid may be caused by 'autoantibodies' - here is what that means

Rebecca Aicheler 17 Dec 2020

A graphic of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. Image by Hanna Vega Yinon M Bar-On, Avi Flamholz, Rob Phillips, and Ron Milo via Wikimedia, published in Cell Biology by the Numbers (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Covid-19

#Covid19: Blood tests to be conducted on 19,000 people in nine provinces

James Stent 11 Dec 2020

Covid-19 shows gender bias: men more likely to need critical care

Covid-19

Covid-19 shows gender bias: men more likely to need critical care

10 Dec 2020

New test for Johne's disease could be a game-changer

Agro-processing

New test for Johne's disease could be a game-changer

4 Dec 2020

Surveys to find out how many people have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 are underway. Free image via Pixabay

Covid-19

New surveys may shed light on SA's Covid epidemic

James Stent 4 Dec 2020