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NHI

Health dept, SAMRC and Stellenbosch Uni to transform healthcare policy decision-making in South Africa

23 Oct 2025

Image supplied.

Noncommunicable diseases

Experts call for mandatory warning labels to combat South Africa's childhood obesity

8 Sep 2025

Source: Reuters.

Economy

Inside SA’s multi-million rand plan to fill US funding void

Jesse Copelyn 15 Aug 2025

SAHIA to host Clinical Coding Symposium in October to advance data-driven healthcare in SA

Healthcare

SAHIA to host Clinical Coding Symposium in October to advance data-driven healthcare in SA

Issued by Communikay 5 Aug 2025

Wits University researchers are scrambling to manage the fallout from the decision by US President Donald Trump to slash funding to South Africa. Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee / GroundUp

Higher Education

Wits scrambles to lessen fallout from Trump’s funding cuts

Aisling de Lange 21 May 2025

Healthcare

Sugary drinks are a killer: a 20% tax would save lives and rands in South Africa

Susan Goldstein 4 Apr 2025

Source: Pexels.

Medical Research

#HumanRightsMonth: NIH's potential funding cut threatens South African medical research

19 Mar 2025

Mental health

Mental health and motherhood: South Africa now has treatment guidelines, the trick will be to make them work

Simone Honikman, Saleha Suleman and Donela Besada 30 Dec 2024

Healthcare

Social protection was always meant to be in the plan – where did it all go wrong?

18 Nov 2024

Healthcare

Is the sugar industry lying to us?

16 Oct 2024

How to eat right for a better life

Nutrition

How to eat right for a better life

Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 9 Oct 2024

Source: Supplied.

HIV/AIDS

Significant progress has been made in controlling HIV in South Africa, report shows

23 Jul 2024

SU's Professor Tulio de Oliveira selected for Time100 Health 2024

Education & Training

SU's Professor Tulio de Oliveira selected for Time100 Health 2024

Issued by Stellenbosch University 6 May 2024

Source: South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)

Healthcare

UCT academic appointed SAMRC president and CEO

3 May 2024

Big companies, like Nestlé, are funding health research in South Africa - why this is wrong

Research

Big companies, like Nestlé, are funding health research in South Africa - why this is wrong

Susan Goldstein, Mark Tomlinson, Rachel Wynberg and Tanya Doherty 5 Mar 2024

Noncommunicable diseases

Diabetes is South Africa's second biggest killer disease: hiking the sugar tax would help

6 Nov 2023

Public Health

South Africa, Germany sign agreement for vaccine production

15 Sep 2023

Covid-19

SA launches first Covid-19 antigen self-test kit

12 Apr 2023

Healthcare

Pivotal local research on antibiotic-resistant infections in hospitals begins in earnest

22 Nov 2022

Source: Supplied.

Medical Research

First cannabis clinical trial takes off in South Africa

11 Nov 2022

PMI event sponsorship "tantamount to tobacco advertising" - civil society orgs

Retail Marketing

PMI event sponsorship "tantamount to tobacco advertising" - civil society orgs

7 Nov 2022

Public Health

SA's Tobacco Control Bill reaches major milestone on its path to law

3 Oct 2022

Healthcare

A call to plug SA's e-cigarette regulation gap

30 May 2022

Prof Refilwe Phaswana-Mafuya

Higher Education

UJ to host its first ever SAMRC Extramural Research Unit

7 Apr 2022

Why South Africa should introduce mandatory labelling for fast foods

Regulatory

Why South Africa should introduce mandatory labelling for fast foods

Siphiwe Dlamini 22 Mar 2022

Medical Research

SAMRC sponsors landmark Covid-19 vaccine trial in collaborative bid to combat HIV

13 Jan 2022

Source: © Dmitry Kalinovsky

Medtech

Medtech sector key to SA's economic recovery

2 Nov 2021

Source: ©Ionut Dan Popescu

Cardiology

The reality of cardiovascular risk

5 Oct 2021

The best hope of beating the pandemic is to vaccinate as many people as soon as possible. Luca Sola/AFP via Getty Images

Covid-19

Covid-19 herd immunity? It's not going to happen, so what next?

Shabir A Madhi 4 Aug 2021

PRofessor Glenda Gray, CEO, SAMRC

Covid-19

J&J single-dose vaccine effective against Delta variant

26 Jul 2021

Source: ©Leigh Prather

Covid-19

South Africa's vaccine quagmire, and what needs to be done now

Alex van den Heever, Imraan Valodia, Shabir A Madhi & Willem Venter 5 Jul 2021

Source: Getty/Gallo

Covid-19

South Africa's latest Covid-19 lockdown puts spotlight back on vaccination failures

Shabir A Madhi 30 Jun 2021

Professor Glenda Gray. Image supplied

Covid-19

Studies show good response to J&J jab

18 Jun 2021

Six-month treatment effective for multi-drug-resistant TB, study finds

Tuberculosis

Six-month treatment effective for multi-drug-resistant TB, study finds

8 Jun 2021

New deputy vice-chancellor appointed at the North-West University

Higher Education

New deputy vice-chancellor appointed at the North-West University

Issued by North-West University (NWU) 13 May 2021

Professor Abdool Karim appointed to WHO Science Council

Medical Research

Professor Abdool Karim appointed to WHO Science Council

30 Apr 2021

Diabetes is a growing public health burden. Ververidis Vasilis/Shutterstock

Noncommunicable diseases

We're on the hunt for novel ways to assess the risk of type 2 diabetes

Cecil Jack Weale 14 Apr 2021

Hydroxychloroquine does not reduce death in Covid-19 cases

Covid-19

International study shows hydroxychloroquine does not reduce Covid-19 deaths

10 Mar 2021

Any man-made changes to the human genome must be carefully regulated. Billon Photos/Shutterstock

Ethics & Medicolegal

Five principles that should guide future DNA 'editing' in South Africa

Bonginkosi Shozi & Marietjie Botes 16 Feb 2021

UP researchers receive prestigious grants for cancer research

Medical Research

UP researchers receive prestigious grants for cancer research

9 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

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused some 85,000 deaths among South Africans over 60. Image: NIAID-RML (CC BY 2.0)

Covid-19

Nearly 85,000 older South Africans have probably died from Covid-19

James Stent 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

South Africa’s Minister of Health, Dr Zweli Mkhize (centre). The government has been criticised for not having an actionable plan on vaccines. Photo by Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images

Covid-19

South Africa failed to get its act together on vaccines: here's how

Shabir A Madhi 18 Jan 2021

This graph published by the MRC shows how much worse the second Covid-19 surge is than the first one that peaked in July.

Covid-19

Record number of South Africans died in first week of 2021

James Stent and Nathan Geffen 14 Jan 2021

Nurses are the backbone of the health system. Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images

Noncommunicable diseases

Diabetes prevention and care needs more nurses with extra training and support

Sundeep Ruder 16 Nov 2020

UKZN’s Emeritus Professor Anna Coutsoudis

HIV/AIDS

SA study recommends changes to PMTCT guidelines

10 Nov 2020

Businesses all over the country closed their doors for good. GettyImages

Covid-19

Lockdown didn't work in South Africa: why it shouldn't happen again

Benjamin T H Smart & Alex Broadbent 15 Oct 2020

A nurse demonstrates how to perform a swab test in Johannesburg, South Africa. Michele Spatari / AFP via Getty Images

Covid-19

10 ways South Africa can step up care for its healthcare workers

Kaymarlin Govender, Gavin George, Sean Beckett & Tim Quinlan 23 Jul 2020

SA alcohol industry requests data informing renewed ban

FMCG

SA alcohol industry requests data informing renewed ban

17 Jul 2020