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Awards and milestones
Celebrating Mr Eben Mouton's leadership and service
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...
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...
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...
Medicine and health
Survivors’ voices amplified at 16 Days of Activism event
Stellenbosch University’s Co-Create Health Hub joined forces with Aurorah Kuils River Community Action Network (CAN) to mark 16 Days of Activism with an event...
Medicine and health
Long-term study shows extent of synergy between alcohol and nicotine use on infant deaths and lifelong prospects of survivors
The extent of the impact of the combined use of alcohol and nicotine, as well as other drugs, during pregnancy on infant deaths and the lifelong health...
Medicine and health
Study assesses diagnostic accuracy of WHO algorithms for childhood TB
In 2023, 10.8 million people fell ill with tuberculosis (TB) and 1.25 million died, confirming TB as the world’s leading infectious disease killer. Among them...