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

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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

Healthcare

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

6 Nov 2023

Healthcare

South Africa, Germany sign agreement for vaccine production

15 Sep 2023

Healthcare

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.

Healthcare

First cannabis clinical trial takes off in South Africa

11 Nov 2022

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

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

7 Nov 2022

Healthcare

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

Education

UJ to host its first ever SAMRC Extramural Research Unit

7 Apr 2022

Why South Africa should introduce mandatory labelling for fast foods

Retail

Why South Africa should introduce mandatory labelling for fast foods

Siphiwe Dlamini 22 Mar 2022

Healthcare

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

13 Jan 2022

Source: © Dmitry Kalinovsky

Healthcare

Medtech sector key to SA's economic recovery

2 Nov 2021

Source: ©Ionut Dan Popescu

Healthcare

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

Healthcare

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

Shabir A Madhi 4 Aug 2021

PRofessor Glenda Gray, CEO, SAMRC

Healthcare

J&J single-dose vaccine effective against Delta variant

26 Jul 2021

Source: ©Leigh Prather

Healthcare

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

Healthcare

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

Shabir A Madhi 30 Jun 2021

Professor Glenda Gray. Image supplied

Healthcare

Studies show good response to J&J jab

18 Jun 2021

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

Healthcare

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

8 Jun 2021

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

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

Healthcare

Professor Abdool Karim appointed to WHO Science Council

30 Apr 2021

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

Healthcare

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

Healthcare

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

Healthcare

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

Healthcare

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

Healthcare

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)

Healthcare

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

Healthcare

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

Healthcare

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.

Healthcare

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

Healthcare

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

Sundeep Ruder 16 Nov 2020

UKZN’s Emeritus Professor Anna Coutsoudis

Healthcare

SA study recommends changes to PMTCT guidelines

10 Nov 2020

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

Healthcare

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

Healthcare

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

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SA alcohol industry requests data informing renewed ban

17 Jul 2020

The French mobile phone application StopCovid, developed to trace people who test positive with Covid-19. Chesnot/Getty Images

Healthcare

Balancing privacy with public health: how well is South Africa doing?

Michael Sean Pepper & Marietjie Botes 25 Jun 2020

Healthcare

SA's first Covid-19 vaccine trial starts

23 Jun 2020

Image source: Getty/Gallo

Healthcare

How deadly is Covid-19?

GroundUp and Spotlight staff 19 Jun 2020

Hair stylist Onele Cembi twists his dreadlocks into the words “Covid-19”. Photo: Thamsanqa Mbovane

Healthcare

Covid-19 report: What does herd immunity mean for South Africa?

GroundUp and Spotlight staff 5 Jun 2020

Debacle over child malnutrition rates belittles suffering

Healthcare

Debacle over child malnutrition rates belittles suffering

28 May 2020

Professor Glenda Gray

Healthcare

SAMRC drops probe into Prof Glenda Gray's Covid-19 regulations comments

26 May 2020

Healthcare

Lockdowns and research: what we lost and what we stand to gain

Stephanie G Burton & Michael Sean Pepper 13 May 2020

Children at window of a building in Hillbrow, Johannesburg. Children will be vulnerable if vaccinations are postponed. Photo by Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images

Healthcare

Coronavirus risks forcing South Africa to make health trade-offs it can ill afford

Karen Hofman & Susan Goldstein 17 Apr 2020

Finance

Many countries regulate e-cigarettes. South Africa should too

Laura Rossouw 6 Feb 2020

Countries can be better prepared and respond faster to disease outbreaks if public health data is shared more freely. Shutterstock

Healthcare

Sharing data can help prevent public health emergencies in Africa

Moses John Bockarie 8 Jul 2019

We tested baby food sugar levels in South Africa. This is what we found

Retail

We tested baby food sugar levels in South Africa. This is what we found

Karen Hofman and Nicola Christofides 30 May 2019

Professor Kelly Chibale. Photo: Je'nine May

Healthcare

R&D is the pipeline for science jobs in Africa

5 Dec 2018

Pilot programme to expand access to care for NCDs

Healthcare

Pilot programme to expand access to care for NCDs

10 Jul 2018

Professor Keertan Dheda, UCT director of the lung infection and immunity unit. Photo: UCT

Healthcare

New UCT unit to tackle origins of antimicrobial resistance

4 Jul 2018