August 21st, 2019
South African hand surgeon Professor Ulrich Mennen was honoured with the prestigious Pioneer of Hand Surgery award at the 14th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand (IFSSH) held in Berlin,...
July 31st, 2019
The Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF) has presented a Titanium Award to Dr Brian Ruff for his outstanding contribution to healthcare. The award recognises and honours professionals and organisations that are driving positive change in South...
July 17th, 2019
South African Aids researcher and scientist, Professor Salim Abdool Karim, has been inducted as a fellow of the prestigious Royal Society, reports The Times. The London-based Royal Society was established in 1660 by royal charter and has...
July 10th, 2019
It's not often that patients have the luxury of paying what they can afford when they visit a doctor. But, says a News24 report, one Bloemfontein doctor, who just opened his doors a few weeks ago, is hoping to change people's lives whether they...
July 3rd, 2019
It’s more than 50 years since Neville Isdell graduated from the University of Cape Town (UCT), but he’s remained forever grateful. And now, reports The Times, UCT has announced that the 76-year-old former chair and CEO of Coca-Cola had made...
June 19th, 2019
The Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa (COHSASA) CEO, Jacqui Stewart, has been elected to the International Academy of Quality & Safety in Health Care (IAQS), established by the International Society for Quality in...
June 12th, 2019
A nurse, who helped care for thousands of people's wounds at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, has retired after 35 years – and she has never taken a day's sick leave. News24 reports that Sister Colleen Grehan's dedicated service was...
May 22nd, 2019
University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) research professor and senior faculty member of the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI), Frank Tanser, has been awarded a prestigious Royal Geographical Society Back Award for conducting seminal research...
April 24th, 2019
A 25-week-old unborn Johannesburg baby has become the first foetus in Africa to receive anaesthetic and undergo ground-breaking “keyhole” surgery to the spine. The four-hour procedure, which involved removing the womb and resting it on the...
April 24th, 2019
Two years ago Dr Sue Walter was diagnosed with multiple myeloma – a bone cancer that forced her to stop practising medicine and take up the cause to fight for the rights of people who are undergoing extreme irremediable suffering to have...
April 17th, 2019
Frustrated by the pressure that injuries and casualties caused by gang-related violence placed on the treatment of ordinary ailments, a former public health nurse took her pension fund money and opened her own primary healthcare clinic in the...
April 3rd, 2019
When nursing sister Salome Siebritz learned that one of her patients had the chance of a lifesaving operation, she knew what she had to do. The Times reports that Cally Williams, 25, had 12 hours to get to Cape Town from Port Elizabeth for a...
March 20th, 2019
A Wits University lecturer in the department of haematology and molecular medicine has been named as one of the 100 Most Influential Young People in South Africa for 2018.
The ranking of young professionals is organised by Avance Media, a PR...
March 13th, 2019
Professor Peter Zilla, head of the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Chris Barnard division of cardiothoracic surgery, has been awarded Austria’s highest national accolade, the Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of...
March 13th, 2019
Tributes have poured in for gynaecologist and obstetrician Dr Monty Brink, who died while participating in the Cape Town Cycle Tour on Sunday. News24 reports that his former patients described him as a caring and kind doctor who went the extra...
March 6th, 2019A baby boy, thought to be the smallest ever to survive, weighing 268g at birth, has finally been sent home from hospital. According to a report in The Daily Telegraph the baby boy from Japan weighed just 268g when he was born 16 weeks early last...
