March 31st, 2021South Africa must expand the healthcare workforce that is able to meet the immediate demand for COVID-19 vaccinators, writes the University of KwaZulu-Natal's Velisha...
Local public health researchers have called on the government to revive stalled legislation intended to regulate e-cigarettes, saying they are being heavily marketed to...Weekly Roundup
Adele Baleta, World Health Organisation vaccine safety communications advisor, and Internews pandemic advisor, writing in Spotlight says that a recent Ipsos survey has...
July 15th, 2020South Africa's Higher Education, Science and Innovation Department has reassigned R15m from existing indigenous knowledge projects to support COVID-19 interventions,...
January 22nd, 2020
Associate Professor Lionel Green-Thompson has been appointed as the new dean of the faculty of health sciences at the University of Cape Town.
Green-Thompson joins...
Following the success of the inaugural South African Health Excellence Awards in 2018, Clinix Health Group in partnership with the South African Clinician Scientists’...
October 31st, 2018The SA National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) says it “does not support” the findings of a research study reporting an outbreak of multi-drug...
Gauteng Premier David Makhura has announced a high-level intervention team to co-ordinate a recovery plan for ailing Gauteng Health, reports The Times. Makhuru said that...Training
Despite continuing protests, the University of the Witwatersrand has formulated secret plans to ensure that final year medical students will write exams.
“The...South Africa
A team at Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Pretoria, performed an Africa-first kidney transplant from a living donor to a recipient through a procedure...
