October is Mental Health Awareness Month. 10 October was World Mental Health Day. SU experts wrote opinion pieces on how to promote mental health.

World Food Day is celebrated annually on 16 October. SU experts wrote opinion pieces for the media. They highlight the importance of promoting indigenous foods.

Many packaged foods for babies sold in South Africa contain flavourings. Flavourings could harm the eating habits and health of babies. Flavourings need to be re-evaluated, and labelling regulations properly enforced.

The E2D collaboration aims to support and build capacity for health and social care decision-making. It will deliver timely and responsive evidence production and translation for efficient, effective and equitable health services and...

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Children with intellectual and developmental disabilities are being left behind. There is a need for early detection, identification and intervention. Disability must be a key part of early childhood development policies.

Paediatrics and Child Health Associate Professor Marieke van der Zalm of the Desmond Tutu Tuberculosis Centre is this year’s recipient of the Female Scientific Leadership Prize for sub-Saharan Africa. The prize is awarded by the European &...

Dr Zara Trafford received a prestigious Wellcome Early-Career Award. To date, she is the only SU recipient of this specific grant. Her project focuses on disabled young people in low-resource communities.

Infectious disease specialist Prof Jean B Nachega has been appointed full professor of Infectious Diseases and part-time Director of the Biomedical Research Institute (BMRI). Nachega previously served as the founding director of the Faculty...

A team of orthopaedic surgeons at Tygerberg Hospital recently achieved a South African first when they performed an innovative limb reconstruction surgery that has only been done a handful of times in the world. The team of surgeons, also...