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Opinion and features

World Cancer Day: Experts focus on key challenges in treatment of cancer

Personalised and timely care, the battle between cancer and the immune system, and standardised, evidence-based guidelines to tackle cervical cancer are among...

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FMHS 70th

Awards and milestones

70 years of impact – celebrating our legacy

Seventy years ago, Stellenbosch University brought about a vision to create a place where the advancement of human health became the foundation on which...

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Novel Chegou

Awards and milestones

Prof Chegou elected as fellow of African Academy of Sciences

Prof Novel Chegou of Stellenbosch University’s recently created Division of Immunology, which he currently leads as acting head, has been elected as a Fellow of...

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Child Health

Medicine and health

Study shows role of serotonin abnormalities in cot deaths

Cot deaths, or sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), are tragic and often lack a clear medical explanation.

Findings from the Safe Passage Study (SPS), recently...

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Profs Hemmings and Essop

Awards and milestones

Two FMHS professors join academy of outstanding scientists

Two senior academics from Stellenbosch University’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) were among the 45 leading scholars inducted as Members of the...

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Prof Salim Safurdeen Abdool Karim photographed at the Coetzenburg Centre on the Stellenbosch Campus where he received his honorary doctorate.

Institutional news

SU honorary doctorate for world-renowned epidemiologist, infectious disease expert

Stellenbosch University (SU) bestowed an honorary doctorate on world-renowned epidemiologist and infectious disease expert Prof Salim Safurdeen Abdool Karim at...

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David

Media release

SU to cap one of youngest doctors in SA

On 11 December, 21-year-old David Obagbuwa will graduate with an MBChB from Stellenbosch University (SU), becoming one of the youngest medical doctors to...

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Heart hands

Medicine and health

Groundbreaking Life Pod achieves first successful organ donation

The “Avengers of Medicine” recently assembled in the Save7 “Life Pod” to bring life-saving and life-changing organs to more than eight transplant patients...

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Researchers from Stellenbosch University’s (SU) CoCREATE Health Hub (a niche in the Division of Health Systems and Public Health) and the International Astronomical Union Office of Astronomy for Development (IAU OAD) are uncovering how stargazing experiences can reduce stress, improve mood, and strengthen social connection.

Media release

Under Southern Skies: How stargazing is shaping mental health research in South Africa

As mental health challenges rise across South Africa, a pioneering research project is turning to an unexpected ally: the night sky.

Researchers from...

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Supplements pregnancy

Media release

New evidence questions the benefit of calcium supplements in pregnancy for preventing pre-eclampsia

An updated Cochrane review has found that calcium supplementation has no effect on pre-eclampsia, challenging long-held assumptions about the role of calcium in...

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