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Torchbearer for rural health
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr Angela Hartwig was the only doctor at Adelaide Provincial Hospital, which offers 60 beds to a catchment area...
Top scientists awarded ASSaf gold awards
Eminent South African scientist Professor Karin Hofman was one of two Africans awarded an ASSAf Science-for-Society Gold Medal for outstanding achievement in scientific thinking to...
Soweto woman’s backyard prosthetic company finds its feet
An amputee at a local hospital, who could not access prosthetics for nearly five years, was the catalyst for a young Soweto woman to...
Rural Doctor of the Year Craig Parker created COVID lifeline for rural areas
East London’s Dr Craig Parker’s oxygen device – the OxERA – saved hundreds of lives during COVID-19, particularly around the rural Eastern Cape, and...
SAHPRA boss Semete-Makokotlela a leader with 'unparalleled focus'
Boitumelo Semete-Makokotlela leads the country’s medicines regulator, the SA Health Products Regulatory Authority, a public entity few people knew about until COVID: she has...
Fauci to retire after half a century
December will see the end of an era in America, when Dr Anthony Fauci (81), after 50 years of government service, steps down from...
More recognition, accolades for Abdool Karims, with award from Japan
Famed Durban scientists Salim Abdool Karim and his wife Quarraisha are to be honoured by the Japanese Government for their work on HIV and...
$100,000 global student prize within reach of young aspirant KZN doctor
A KwaZulu-Natal youngster, who as a sickly child was raised with seven siblings by a physically challenged uncle, and is now studying human biology...
Global recognition for experts helping shape health policy for Africa
A University of Cape Town professor has been named among Harvard Public Health Magazine’s top 25 public health leaders and “standout voices” in Africa,...
UKZN medical alumni honoured for contributions in their fields
Professor Mochichi Samuel Mokgokong, the first black South African to qualify as a neurosurgeon in 1987, and Professor Lizo Mazwai, an emiritus professor of...
UKZN medical student represents SA at WHO
University of KwaZulu-Natal's Mohamed Hoosen Suleman was one of three medical students globally selected to attend the World Health Organisation's highest decision-making body on...
SU scientists make TIME list of 100 most influential people
Two Stellenbosch University (SU) scientists have been selected for TIME magazine’s list of 100 most influential people of 2022.
Professor Tulio de Oliveira and Dr...
Durban doctor honoured with Order of Merit from French government
The French government has recognised and honoured a former graduate of the University of Kwazulu-Natal’s Medical School for his contributions to science, medicine and...
Quakers nominate Kenyan health worker for Nobel Peace Prize
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and Quaker Peace & Social Witness have nominated Kenyan national Miriam Were for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize....
Africa’s youngest medical student has her heart set on cardiology
Zimbabwean student Taida Mapara, who has just turned 16, is arguably Africaʼs youngest university student, studying medicine at the University of Malawi College of...
ASSAf honours South Africa’s top scholars
Forty-three of the country’s leading scholars and scientists were inaugurated as members of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) at the annual...
Nobel Prize for physiology/medicine shared by two Americans
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for...
Health committee’s new chair says technology will thwart NHI corruption
Reflecting on the mammoth issue of corruption casting a shadow over South Africaʼs health sector, Dr Kenneth Jacobs stresses the importance of safety nets...
Tragic end to Pretoria medical family’s new life New Zealand
Pretoria orthopaedic surgeon Dr Graham Dickason, his general practitioner wife Dr Lauren Dickason, and their three young children sought a new life in New...
Daunting road ahead for SA’s new Health minister
Dr Zweli Mkhize's successor, Dr Mathume Joseph Phaahla, takes over as Health minister at a crucial time, writes BusinessLIVE. Not only does he become...
Daunting road ahead for SA’s new Health minister
Dr Zweli Mkhize's successor, Dr Mathume Joseph Phaahla, takes over as Health minister at a crucial time, writes BusinessLIVE. Not only does he become...
Dr Sindi van Zyl: 'Generous, selfless and kind' radio host dies of COVID-19
Johannesburg-based medical doctor and radio host Dr Sindi van Zyl, 45, succumbed to a COVID-19 related illness after a two-month battle with the virus...
PE doctor who underwent COVID-19-linked lung transplant has died
One of the first COVID-19 patients to receive a lung transplant in South Africa has died. Much-loved Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) anaesthetist Dr Michiel Botha...
SA’s first black microbiologist is new co-chair of Covid-19 MAC team
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has announced that Professor Koleka Mlisana will be Professor Salim Abdool Karim's successor and join Professor Marian Jacobs as the...
The struggle for access to COVID jabs is déjà vu , says UCT's Bekker
Yesterday's fight for access to ARV treatment for people with HIV is mirrored in today's struggle for access to COVID-19 vaccinations, says University of...
SA-born head of US biotech to partner with Biovac on COVID vaccine
US immunotherapy company ImmunityBio, founded and headed by South African born and educated Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong, will partner with Cape-Town-based Biovac to manufacture that...
SA-born chiropractor strikes it rich with telemedicine start-up
A personal tragedy and an unlikely sequence of events led Johannesburg-born chiropractor Clint Phillips to found telemedicine firm 2nd.MD in 2010, reports BusinessLIVE. Last...
Prominent KZN cardiologist dies of COVID-19
Prominent Durban cardiologist Dr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy has died of COVID-19, reports News24.
Ponnusamy held the position of head of the clinical unit at the...
COVID-19 has made Prof Abdool Karim a media celebrity
Professor Salim Abdool Karim has become a household name in the past year, writesUniversity World News. Celebrity status has two indicators: media interest in...
HPCSA elects new president and vice-president
Professor Mbulaheni Simon Nemutandani has been elected the new president of the Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA), and Dr Simpiwe Sobuwa as his...
Neuroscientist scorned by the medical establishment is finally vindicated
An Australian neuroscientist whose research on avoiding strokes through lifestyle changes and medication instead of surgical interventions put her at odds with the medical...
Abdool Karim and Fauci share the 2020 John Maddox Prize
South Africa's Professor Salim Abdool Karim and the United States's Dr Anthony Fauci have jointly been awarded the 2020 John Maddox Prize for standing...
AAS's biennial prize for innovation goes to University of Pretoria audiologist
The African Academy of Sciences (AAS) has awarded its biennial Olusegun Obasanjo Prize for Scientific Breakthrough and/or Technological Innovation to the University of Pretoria's...
Gauteng's COVID-19 quarantine chief dies unexpectedly
Gauteng's acting CEO of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) has died suddenly, according to the provincial government, reports The Times. Kgati Malebana, 46, was part of the...
2020 Medicine Nobel Prize to be shared by three scientists
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Harvey J Alter, Michael...
Nobel-winning gynaecologist under UN protection after death threats
Nobel laureate gynaecologist Dr Denis Mukwege has been placed under the guard of UN security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after...
Prof Elmi Muller wins UCT's 2019 Alan Pifer Award
Professor Elmi Muller's dedication to making organ transplantation available to vulnerable people that has led to her being recognised with the 2019 University of...
Mandela's personal physician dies
Dr Vejay Ramlakan, Nelson Mandela's personal physician and former surgeon-general of the country's armed forces, has died aged 62, reports IoL. He served in...
SA doctor who emigrated to escape crime, brutally killed in Canada
Dr Walter "Tokkie" Reynolds, 45-years-old, who emigrated to Canada in 2003 reportedly to escape high crime levels in South Africa, was last week killed...
CMS loses to coronavirus its second chair in months
The Council of Medical Schemes has lost its second leader in months to COVID-19, following the death of Professor Lungile Pepeta on Friday, 7...