South Africa’s medicines regulator has warned patients of disabling and potentially permanent side effects associated with quinolone and fluroquinolone antibiotics,...
December 12th, 2018
Not only are many science graduates in Africa unemployed but the situation is getting worse, fuelling a brain drain to Europe, the UK and North America, warned...
December 5th, 2018There was a time when HIV was untreatable, heavily stigmatised, and the benefits of testing weren’t as clear as they are now. But, writes Linda-Gail Bekker, professor...
December 5th, 2018HIV-uninfected children born to mothers with HIV are prone to more severe infections, almost double the risk of dying before their first birthday, and are more likely to...
November 21st, 2018
A novel SA technique not only improves the accuracy of ultrasound in assessing hydrocephalus, by analysing the dynamic properties of the back of the eye as a marker...
November 21st, 2018
Being the first black woman to obtain a PhD in nephrology, Dr Unati Nolubabalo Nqebelele described her achievement as bittersweet – and said she wondered why other...
November 14th, 2018Less than a quarter of children diagnosed with bacterial meningitis at the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital over an 18-month period were referred to...
November 14th, 2018There is limited literature addressing assisted reproduction in Africa, yet the continent’s societies are pronatalist, with immense social, economic and religious...
Emergency medical services workers in the Eastern Cape remain on strike, reports Eyewitness News. It's an illegal industrial action which has forced emergency measures...
October 24th, 2018
South African HIV scientist Professor Linda-Gail Bekker has been awarded the 2018 Desmond Tutu Award for HIV Prevention Research and Human Rights at a conference in...
