By Wilma Stassen In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, doctors at Tygerberg Hospital implemented a daring, lesser-known treatment that not only bypassed the imminent ventilator shortage caused
By Helen Swingler The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Electrolyser Research Group within the HySA Catalysis Competence Centre has secured almost R3 million from Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education
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
