August 18th, 2021How the Intensive Care Unit at Groote Schuur Hospital adapted to the unprecedented demands of the COVID-19 pandemic is the subject of a study in the the Southern African...
Researchers at the University of Stellenbosch, University of Cape Town, Groote Schuur Hospital, Western Cape Health Department, Swartland Hospital in Malmesbury, and...
February 3rd, 2021The man who played an essential role in providing evidence to convict axe murderer, Henri van Breda, and child killer, Mortimer Saunders, has died following a battle...
December 16th, 2020An elegantly simple free phone application called Vula is revolutionising patient treatment and referrals between primary care facilities and tertiary hospitals in South...
Western Cape Health MEC Nomafrench Mbombo has accused Finance Minister Tito Mboweni of insulting healthcare workers by claiming that the province’s largest hospital,...Coronavirus
High-flow nasal oxygen (HFNO) therapy for severe COVID-19 patients with hypoxaemic respiratory failure (HRF)is feasible and more almost half of those who receive it can...HIV/AIDS
The pharmacokinetics (how the body absorbs, distributes, metabolises and excretes drugs) of adult dolutegravir 50mg tablets given to children living with HIV weighing...
August 26th, 2020With the ongoing personal protective equipment (PPE) shortage in hospitals, doctors at Tygerberg Hospital, the Western Cape's largest hospital, found an unusual yet...
Gas supplier Afrox has assured the public that there is no shortage of medical oxygen in South Africa, contrary to what some media reports may have suggested, reports...Coronavirus
Spotlight reports that doctors at two of the Western Cape’s most impacted COVID-19 hospitals say they have seen positive outcomes from using high-flow nasal oxygen...
