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Celebrate 70th

Awards and milestones

70 years of remarkable milestones: FMHS celebrates its legacy of impact

Throughout 2026, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) at Stellenbosch University will be celebrating a remarkable milestone: 70 years of advancing...
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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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Under southern skies

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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An illustration of a diverse group of people with disabilities.

Opinion and features

International Day of Persons with Disabilities highlights key challenges

The International Day of Persons with Disabilities is celebrated on 3 December. In opinion pieces for the media, experts from Stellenbosch University, in...

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Horror of Trust event

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...

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A red ribbon on a black background symbolizes HIV and AIDS awareness.

Opinion and features

Listening to adolescent mothers this World AIDS Day

As we enter an uncertain chapter in tackling the HIV epidemic, approaches that prioritise the needs, priorities, and voices of adolescent girls—and provide...

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