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Fitbone Surgery

Medicine and health

Tygerberg-SU surgeons first to perform novel limb reconstruction in South Africa

A team of orthopaedic surgeons at Tygerberg Hospital recently achieved a South African first when they performed an innovative limb reconstruction surgery that...
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Marieke van der Zalm

Awards and milestones

Van der Zalm awarded EDCTP’s Female Scientific Leadership Prize for sub-Saharan Africa

Paediatrics and Child Health Associate Professor Marieke van der Zalm of the Desmond Tutu Tuberculosis Centre (DTTC) is this year’s recipient of the Female...

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Qhawekazi Mazaleni

New Miss SA and SU alumna is passionate about education and speech therapy

Speech therapist and Stellenbosch University (SU) alumna, Qhawekazi Mazelani, was recently crowned as the new Miss South Africa. Now she is on a mission to be...

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HeartWorks

Arts, languages and social sciences

HeartWorks: Fine arts and biomedical students reconsider the human heart

When thinking about the human heart, how can artists represent this multi-faceted organ to include all its complexities? Can art represent the heart both...

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Medical

Media release

E2D collaboration will ensure best evidence informs healthcare policy decision-making

“The implementation of National Health Insurance (NHI) will require extensive changes to the South African health system (including funding mechanisms...

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Dr Zara Trafford photographed in front of Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences on the Tygerberg Campus.

Awards and milestones

SU researcher receives R12m grant for disability studies

Dr Zara Trafford, a scholar in disability studies at the Institute for Life Course Health Research in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at...

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Baby formula and a milk bottle photographed on a brown table.

Media release

Study reveals potentially harmful flavourings in foods for South African babies

Many packaged foods for babies and young children sold in South Africa contain flavourings that could harm their eating habits and health. Flavourings in these...

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