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Awards and milestones
70 years of remarkable milestones: FMHS celebrates its legacy of impact
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...
Medicine and health
Iron supplement absorption preserved in children with HIV and boosted by prebiotics
New research shows that iron from supplements and fortified foods is well-absorbed in children living with virally suppressed HIV, and that administering iron...
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...
Institutional news
Infectious disease specialist appointed BMRI director
The internationally renowned infectious disease specialist Prof Jean B Nachega has been appointed Full Professor of Infectious Diseases and part-time Director...
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...
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...