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Healthcare

Tuberculosis risk skyrockets in global prisoners

30 Jun 2023

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Healthcare

RSV on the rise, hospitals urged to prepare for paediatric admissions

23 Mar 2023

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Finance

Discovery features fourth on the 2022 Fortune Change the World list

10 Oct 2022

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Healthcare

Influenza cases on the rise in South Africa

9 Jun 2022

The cost of coal in South Africa: dirty skies, sick kids

ESG & Sustainability

The cost of coal in South Africa: dirty skies, sick kids

Tim Cocks 17 Nov 2021

6 Covid-19 vaccine myths dispelled by experts

Healthcare

6 Covid-19 vaccine myths dispelled by experts

25 Aug 2021

Duped and desperate loan seekers bring class action against online scammers

Legal

Duped and desperate loan seekers bring class action against online scammers

Tania Broughton 23 Jul 2021

The issue of occupational noise-induced hearing loss is prominent in the mining industry. Shutterstock

Energy & Mining

Hearing loss is a neglected hazard for miners in South Africa

Nomfundo Moroe 10 May 2021

#WorldTBDay2021: Adolescents with perinatally acquired HIV at increased risk

Healthcare

#WorldTBDay2021: Adolescents with perinatally acquired HIV at increased risk

24 Mar 2021

If left untreated, latent TB infection can progress to TB disease.
Mujahid Safodien/AFP via Getty Images

Healthcare

TB treatments are notoriously hard to stick to: shorter regimens offer a breakthrough

Violet Chihota 23 Mar 2021

Covid and flu - Should you still have the flu shot?

Healthcare

Covid and flu - Should you still have the flu shot?

Issued by Bonitas 8 Mar 2021

Dr Justus Apffelstaedt

Healthcare

Covid-19: the cost to cancer patients

Justus Apffelstaedt 25 Jan 2021

The loss of vegetation is creating a dangerous heat island over Nairobi

ESG & Sustainability

The loss of vegetation is creating a dangerous heat island over Nairobi

17 Dec 2020

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Energy & Mining

R1.5m paid out to first silicosis claimants

7 Dec 2020

Older people in urban informal settlements live in poor socioeconomic conditions. Donwilson Odhiambo/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Healthcare

Combating lifestyle diseases can make a big difference in the lives of older people

Razak M Gyasi 12 Oct 2020

Restaurants and fast food outlets need a mindset change post Covid-19

Retail

Restaurants and fast food outlets need a mindset change post Covid-19

Craig Schwabe 8 Oct 2020

Pulmonary hypertension in LMICs

Healthcare

Pulmonary hypertension in LMICs

28 Sep 2020

Covid-19 has not been as devastating in South Africa as initially feared. Dino Lloyd/Gallo Images via Getty Images

Healthcare

Covid-19 and HIV: so far it seems the outcome is not what was feared

Burtram C. Fielding 21 Sep 2020

New healthbot launched for high-risk patients

Healthcare

New healthbot launched for high-risk patients

26 Jun 2020

The urban poor have been hit hard by coronavirus. We must ask who cities are designed to serve

Construction & Engineering

The urban poor have been hit hard by coronavirus. We must ask who cities are designed to serve

Colin McFarlane 8 Jun 2020

Workers from Kinross Gold Mine, South Africa. Brooks Kraft LLC/Sygma via Getty Images

Energy & Mining

Health and safety in the spotlight as South Africa's miners go back to work

Nancy Coulson & Nicola Christofides 7 May 2020

Emergency doctors and nurse performing CPR and inserting an IV drip on a patient. GettyImages

Healthcare

Tough choices about who gets ICU access: the ethical principles guiding South Africa

Keymanthri Moodley 8 Apr 2020

Doctors Without Borders supporters march in protest to the American Consulate in Johannesburg in 2012 over lack of funding to fight HIV. Photo by Foto24/Gallo Images/Getty Images

Healthcare

TB, HIV and Covid-19: urgent questions as three epidemics collide

Emily Wong 26 Mar 2020

The symptoms are non-specific and very similar to other viral infections. Shutterstock

Healthcare

#Coronavirus: How big, how bad, and what to look out for

12 Mar 2020

Healthcare

#Covid-19, HIV and TB

9 Mar 2020

Giving pregnant women antibiotics could harm the lungs of preemies, according to study in mice

Healthcare

Giving pregnant women antibiotics could harm the lungs of preemies, according to study in mice

Kent Willis 23 Dec 2019

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Healthcare

New approach to treating cystic fibrosis

3 Dec 2019

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Healthcare

Advances in anti-ageing research: how chemistry could hold the key to better health

Lizzy Ostler 6 Nov 2019

New TB vaccine shows promise

Healthcare

New TB vaccine shows promise

29 Oct 2019

Dr Paula Fujiwara

Healthcare

National leaders must step in to eradicate TB

18 Oct 2019

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Healthcare

The cost of smoking your socks

Dr Helen Weber 6 May 2019

Former Sasol Coal miners claim more than R80 million for coal-related illnesses

Legal

Former Sasol Coal miners claim more than R80 million for coal-related illnesses

Ciaran Ryan 25 Apr 2019

10 biggest threats to global health

Healthcare

10 biggest threats to global health

15 Jan 2019

Groundbreaking settlement in silicosis/TB class action

Energy & Mining

Groundbreaking settlement in silicosis/TB class action

3 May 2018

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Healthcare

40% of Uganda's health centres don't stock drugs to treat chronic diseases

Jeremy Schwartz and Mari Armstrong-Hough 8 Mar 2018

Sean Gilbertson, CEO: Pallinghurst

Energy & Mining

Gemfields denies human rights abuse

14 Feb 2018

Graham Briggs. Photo: Towerstone

Energy & Mining

#miningindaba18: Miners face delay in pact over silicosis class action

9 Feb 2018

Driverless cars could be better or worse for our health - it's up to us

Automotive

Driverless cars could be better or worse for our health - it's up to us

Jim Sallis 12 Jan 2018

Energy & Mining

For Gabon's sickly uranium miners, a long quest for compensation

30 Nov 2017

Energy & Mining

Amnesty warns companies on child labour in DRC cobalt mining

17 Nov 2017

Pollution killed nine million people in 2015: report

ESG & Sustainability

Pollution killed nine million people in 2015: report

24 Oct 2017

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Agriculture

Organisations join forces, launches roadmap to combat zoonotic TB

13 Oct 2017

Three ways to improve commercial shipping's environmental footprint

Logistics & Transport

Three ways to improve commercial shipping's environmental footprint

Martina Doblin 16 Aug 2017

Makatleho Selibo is the widow of Mahola Selibo who worked as a team leader at President Steyn mine in Welkom. He worked underground for 33 years. He passed away in 2013 and suffered from tuberculosis and silicosis. He did not receive any compensation from the mines. Photo: Thom Pierce

Energy & Mining

End in sight for silicosis case?

Pete Lewis/GroundUp 15 Aug 2017

Climate change set to increase air pollution deaths by hundreds of thousands by 2100

ESG & Sustainability

Climate change set to increase air pollution deaths by hundreds of thousands by 2100

Guang Zeng and Jason West 1 Aug 2017

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Energy & Mining

Anglo sets aside $101m for silicosis claims

28 Jul 2017

Professor Fred Cawood

Energy & Mining

Improving mining H&S through collaboration

Danette Breitenbach 22 Feb 2017

Smokeless cooking in Kenya

ESG & Sustainability

Smokeless cooking in Kenya

23 Dec 2016