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HIV/Aids researcher who forced Mbeki U-turn drowns in Florida

Mark Wainberg, who died recently at the age of 71, was a frontline HIV/Aids researcher from Canada who played a key role in forcing...

Mariëtte Botes: ARV pioneer who became the victim of abuse and hostility

Dr Mariëtte Botes, who has died in Pretoria at the age of 50, was an early pioneer of antiretroviral cocktails that saved the lives...

Pioneering UCT-trained doctor leaves training legacy

Dr Hawa Patel, one of the first female black medical graduates from the University of Cape Town, recently died in Canada, aged 93. Through...

Registrar and CEO of Council of Medical Schemes dies

The Council for Medical Schemes registrar and CEO, Dr Humphrey Zokufa, has died on after a short illness, reports Business Day. He was an outspoken pharmacist-turned-health administrator...

The inventor of the Heimlich manoeuvre dies

Henry Heimlich, the American doctor who invented the life-saving manoeuvre carrying his name, has died, aged 96. His son announced his death, saying he passed...

Raoul de Villiers

Renowned Cape Town surgeon Professor Raoul de Villiers, who worked alongside heart transplant pioneer Professor Christiaan Barnard when the two were still laboratory researchers,...