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Pharmaceuticals

SA's Biovac to make, distribute pneumonia vaccine across Africa

26 Jun 2025

#YouthMonth: Nolan Pillay empowers youth with his book, The Millenial Success Code

Wellness

#YouthMonth: Nolan Pillay empowers youth with his book, The Millenial Success Code

Evan-Lee Courie 20 Jun 2025

Why your flu shot matters this winter

Public Health

Why your flu shot matters this winter

Issued by Stone 20 May 2025

Healthcare

Africa’s healthcare funding crisis: 3 strategies to manage deadly diseases

Francisca Mutap 24 Apr 2025

All images © Shan Radcliffe

Music

Goo Goo Dolls live in SA: The re-education of a girl turned Goo

Shan Radcliffe 31 Mar 2025

Source: Pexels.

Healthcare

Pope Francis stable in hospital as Vatican marks 12 years since his election

13 Mar 2025

Source: National Institute for Communicable Diseases.

Public Health

Mpox: No global lockdowns, emphasis on increased education, vigilance, airport screening and monitoring

Katja Hamilton 24 Aug 2024

Source: Supplied.

CSI

Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital first to receive pioneering neonatal medtech

19 Mar 2024

Source: Access to Medicine Foundation.

Healthcare

Gas companies called to scale up access to medical oxygen

5 May 2023

SA healthtech startup Envisionit Deep AI secures R30m investment

4th Industrial Revolution

SA healthtech startup Envisionit Deep AI secures R30m investment

24 Feb 2023

Will the used car market continue to flourish into 2023?

Commercial & Industrial

Will the used car market continue to flourish into 2023?

25 Nov 2022

All the BCX Digital Innovation Awards 2022 winners!

4th Industrial Revolution

All the BCX Digital Innovation Awards 2022 winners!

25 Nov 2022

Source: Dr Carolyn Chinsinga.

Healthcare

Real-time data monitoring drives superior hospital-at-home care

Katja Hamilton 9 Sep 2022

Economy

Local vaccine production boosts economic transformation and job creation in South Africa

Patrick Tippoo 22 Jun 2022

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Paediatrics

Kenya puts in place tougher labelling for baby foods, bottles, teats and pacifiers

Antonina Mutoro 14 Apr 2022

Telecel Group names 10 African startups for "prestigious" acceleration programme

How To Start Up

Telecel Group names 10 African startups for "prestigious" acceleration programme

14 Mar 2022

Human, animal transmission

Covid-19

Human, animal transmission

Issued by University of Pretoria 7 Mar 2022

All the 2021 Gauteng Accelerator Programme Innovation competition winners

Awards

All the 2021 Gauteng Accelerator Programme Innovation competition winners

25 Feb 2022

Covid-19

Treatment of Covid with antibiotics could add to the problem of drug resistance

Adam Mustapha 17 Jan 2022

Source: ©Mzansi Magic

TV

SABC1 TV presenter Angie Diale passes away

24 Dec 2021

R16.1m awarded to SA's most inspiring social innovators

Infrastructure, Innovation & Technology

R16.1m awarded to SA's most inspiring social innovators

3 Dec 2021

Finalists in the 2021 Social Innovation and Disability Empowerment Awards announced

Infrastructure, Innovation & Technology

Finalists in the 2021 Social Innovation and Disability Empowerment Awards announced

18 Nov 2021

Source: ©Jasmin Merdan

Covid-19

Vaccinate for a normal way of life

20 Sep 2021

HIV 40 years on: four action points to end Aids as a health threat

HIV/AIDS

HIV 40 years on: four action points to end Aids as a health threat

Gilles van Cutsem 10 Jun 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

Nurses Maxine MacNamara (left), Clare Wepener, and Nicky Krynauw, who work at Life Healthcare’s Vincent Pallotti Hospital in Pinelands. Photos: Ashraf Hendricks

Covid-19

What it's like being a nurse during a pandemic

James Stent & Mary-Anne Gontsana 2 Jun 2021

Covid-19 Barometer: 500 days later, how are people in South Africa feeling?

Research

Covid-19 Barometer: 500 days later, how are people in South Africa feeling?

Stacy Saggers, Issued by Kantar 26 May 2021

Fungal infections might be dangerous to Covid-19 patients with severe symptoms in ICU

Covid-19

Fungal infections might be dangerous to Covid-19 patients with severe symptoms in ICU

14 May 2021

Family members of Covid-19 infected patients stand in a queue with empty oxygen cylinders outside the oxygen filling centre in New Delhi, India. Photo by Naveen Sharma/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Covid-19

It's possible to build stronger systems to deliver oxygen: here's what it takes

Hamish Graham & Adegoke Falade 10 May 2021

Kenya and South Africa have a high exposure to disinformation. shutterstock

Covid-19

Social media users in Kenya and South Africa trust science, but still share Covid-19 hoaxes

Herman Wasserman & Dani Madrid-Morales 7 Apr 2021

Train passengers carried out a Covid-19 detection test with the GeNose C19 screening at Pasar Turi Station, Surabaya, February 15, 2021.
ANTARA FOTO/Didik Suhartono/rwa

Covid-19

Indonesian-made Covid-19 breathalyser sensitivity comparable to RT-PCR

17 Mar 2021

The rise of commercial milk formulas and why it matters for the world's women and children

FMCG

The rise of commercial milk formulas and why it matters for the world's women and children

David McCoy, Julie P. Smith and Phillip Baker 5 Jan 2021

Is Covid-19 a bacteria or a virus? Affinity Health explains the differences

Covid-19

Is Covid-19 a bacteria or a virus? Affinity Health explains the differences

Issued by Affinity Health 26 Nov 2020

Can mobile technology 'vaccinate' SA's private healthcare industry against Covid-19?

Covid-19

Can mobile technology 'vaccinate' SA's private healthcare industry against Covid-19?

Issued by Insight Survey 16 Nov 2020

Noncommunicable diseases

Diabetes is a ticking time bomb in Sub-Saharan Africa

Chinwe Juliana Iwu-Jaja, Andre Pascal Kengne & Charles Shey Wiysonge 13 Nov 2020

Medical Research

South Africa is testing digital technology to detect outbreaks of respiratory diseases

Cheryl Cohen & Sibongile Walaza 5 Nov 2020

Child mortality rates in the country are high. John Fredricks/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Medtech

How smartphones could help improve child health in Malawi

Griphin Baxter Chirambo et al 6 Oct 2020

Shanon Jensen/AFP via Getty Images

Infectious Diseases

How changing vaccine schedules can save costs and lives: findings from South Africa

Jeffrey Dorfman 29 Sep 2020

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Medical Research

Antibiotic resistance: cheap diagnostic test could be a saviour

Lara Marks & Ankur Mutreja 11 Aug 2020

Paediatricians advocate the reopening of schools

Covid-19

Paediatricians advocate the reopening of schools

6 Aug 2020