Wits University has resumed vaccinating in the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine trial currently also underway in the UK, Brazil and the U.S. The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority
By Carla Bernado What began with a University of Cape Town (UCT) lecturer donating her breast milk to Milk Matters has resulted in a lasting relationship that has
By Alec Basson Pulmonary hypertension (high blood pressure in the lungs) is a deadly disease that affects about 75 million people worldwide, approximately 80% of whom live in
By Michelle Galloway Stellenbosch University (SU) was recently awarded a R128 million grant by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate new tuberculosis diagnostic and predictive
It is hard to imagine that sugar was virtually unknown a few hundred years ago. The past four decades have witnessed an increase in sugar consumption of 127%
More women (56%) than men are testing positive for COVID-19 in Gauteng. This August 2020 Map of the Month of the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO) sis presented as a story
The British Ecological Society’s (BES) Marsh Award for Climate Change Research has been awarded to the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Professor Wendy Foden, a world-leading researcher in climate change vulnerability
Wits postgraduate students in Medical Anthropology share the effects of living under lockdown amidst the global Covid-19 pandemic. The students co-authored How a pandemic shapes the city: Ethnographic voices
By Helen Swingler When University of Cape Town (UCT) alumnus and space scientist Barbara Ojur gazes at the night sky, she’s amazed that humanity has managed to leverage
