September 15th, 2021Actuary Nick Hudson heads PANDA, the most high-profile group driving vaccine hesitancy in South Africa, writes Nathan Geffen, editor of GroundUp. It’s been spreading...
August 25th, 2021South Africa’s national Department of Health says adolescents are at particular risk of mental health issues arising from using cannabis and that while the DoH...
May 19th, 2021Annual screening for ovarian cancer can detect tumours earlier but does not save lives, one of the largest studies ever conducted on the UK general population...
April 28th, 2021Those who persistently slept six hours or less per night were roughly 30% more likely to develop dementia, compared to those with normal sleep duration, according to A...
Inhaled budesonide, a common corticosteroid, is the first widely available, inexpensive drug found to shorten recovery times in COVID-19 patients aged over 50 who are...Research Africa
Is the acknowledged decline in hospital trauma admissions during the various lockdowns a result of the ban on alcohol, restrictions on people’s movement or a...South Africa
South Africa's fumbling vaccine rollout was boosted this week with a commitment of 30m Johnson & Johnson doses with deliveries starting by end April, while hHealth...
March 31st, 2021A University of Birmingham-led study of top-flight UK rugby players – carried out in collaboration with the Rugby Football Union (RFU), Premiership Rugby, and Marker...
New data from Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge suggests that a single dose of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine can reduce by 75% the number of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2...
February 24th, 2021Politicians trying to jump to the front of South Africa's vaccination queue explain that it's to counter vaccine hesitancy. Columnist Ivo Vegter describes it's nothing...
