March 20th, 2019The death rate among women undergoing a caesarean to deliver a baby is about 50 times higher in Africa than in most wealthy nations, Health24 reports that researchers...
March 13th, 2019One in six people not on treatment in a large South African household survey already had drug-resistant HIV and more than half of those on treatment had resistance to at...
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...
South Africa's national Health Department has withdrawn its instruction to provinces to charge foreign patients the maximum rate, saying the directive should never have...Weekly Roundup
A University of Cape Town tuberculosis research project is one of three winners of the first Africa-fcoused seed fund, which will bring together the UCT scientists in...
February 27th, 2019
The Lancet Commission on Obesity, three years in the making, has just been released. It is an infringement of personal freedoms and based on the misconception that...
Cape Town’s former Common Ground Church youth leader nicknamed the ‘Porn Pastor’ was sodomised by the family gardener from about the age of three or four and...
February 6th, 2019The editors of more than two dozen cardiology-related scientific journals worldwide have published a joint editorial to sound the alarm that medical misinformation is...
January 30th, 2019Current pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) strategies can slow roll-out and contribute to stigma surrounding PrEP use, found a study in The Lancet. The authors propose...
January 23rd, 2019After turning down placements at rural hospitals, hundreds of newly qualified doctors remain unemployed while the country’s rural state hospitals remain desperately...
