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Stellenbosch doctor's scientifically-founded photo-novel
December 20th, 2017 Dr Burt Davis, a lecturer at the Africa Centre for HIV/ Aids Management at Stellenbosch University, received his doctoral degree earlier this month after designing a scientifically-founded photo-novel that dealt with the health risks related to tik....
Free State nurse named the most caring in SA
December 20th, 2017 Angelina Vermeulen from the Free State was named the country's most caring nurse at the recent annual Marilyn Lahana Trust Caring Awards hosted by the Democratic Nursing Organisation of South African (Denosa). According to a Pretoria News...
How a historic heart transplant created SA's first celebrity scientist 50 years ago
December 6th, 2017 Fifty years ago – on 3 December 1967 – the heart of a 26-year-old road accident victim, Denise Darvall, started to beat inside the chest of a 54-year-old grocer, Louis Washkansky. South Africa’s Chris Barnard stands out in medical...
The extraordinary journey of Jimmy Volmink
November 22nd, 2017 Professor Jimmy Volmink, dean of medicine and health sciences at Stellenbosch University, South Africa and founding director of Cochrane South Africa joins Ray Moynihan at Cochrane Australia in his The Recommended Dose programme to trace an...
First black female neurosurgeon graduates at UKZN
November 22nd, 2017 The discipline of neurology in the School of Clinical Medicine at University of Kwazulu-Natal (UKZN) has announced that Dr Nomusa Shezi is the first black African woman to graduate in this field from the institution. The Citizen reports that...
Leading SA Aids researcher made special UNAIDS ambassador
November 22nd, 2017 Associate scientific director of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (Caprisa) Professor Quarraisha Abdool Karim has been appointed UNAIDS Special Ambassador for Adolescents and HIV, reports The Mercury. The executive...
Transplant recipients fight declining number of SA organ transplants
November 22nd, 2017 Four lung transplant recipients have banded together to fight the declining number of organ transplants in South Africa. The Times reports that Shaylene Perry, Fawn Rogers, Alice Vogt and Siobhan Scallan, who founded Love Life; Gift Life last...
UCT professor elected to the US National Academy of Medicine
October 25th, 2017 The dean of the faculty of health sciences at the University of Cape Town, Professor Bongani Mayosi, has been elected to the US National Academy of Medicine (NAM). The NAM, formerly the Institute of Medicine, was established in 1970 under the...
Award for SA's Aids research couple
October 25th, 2017 South African Aids researchers professors Salim and Quarraisha Abdool Karim‚ have scooped the esteemed Institute for Human Virology (IHV) Lifetime Achievement Award for exceptional public service for their contributions to the global Aids...
New HASA board members
October 4th, 2017 Dr Paul Soko of Life Healthcare was elected to the board of directors of the Hospital Association of SA (Hasa) at the AGM held during the association’s just-completed conference. He is an executive of Life Healthcare’s clinical...
KZN Health MEC pays tribute to dedicated nurse
September 27th, 2017 The KwaZulu-Natal government has paid tribute to Sifiso Mbambo, nurse so dedicated to his work that he once went as far as walking to patients to deliver antiretroviral drugs. News24 reports that the KZN Department of Health hailed Sifiso...
The Twitter crusader for solid scientific evidence in medicine
September 20th, 2017 Dr Vinay Prasad is a professional and inluential scold: He takes to Twitter each day to critique this cancer drug as ineffective, or blast that one as overpriced, or dismiss the clinical trial of another as completely irrelevant. So, says a Stat...
Former CDC boss tackles thorny global health issues
September 20th, 2017 Tom Frieden, former director of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, is starting a new initiative to tackle some of global health's thorniest issues: cardiovascular disease and epidemics. Frieden, a former New York City health...
'Berlin Patient' patient speaks in Cape Town on HIV cure research
September 13th, 2017 Timothy Ray Brown – the only known person to be cured of HIV – thought a cure was science fiction when his doctor raised the idea a decade ago. Now, reports The Times, softly-spoken Brown is the poster guy for defeating HIV and spoke at the...
Right to Care CEO re-elected as ACTG Network vice-chair
August 23rd, 2017 The CEO of the non-profit organisation Right to Care, Professor Ian Sanne, has been elected to serve a second term as the international vice-chair of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) Network, which is the largest HIV/Aids clinical trials...