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Media release
SU to cap one of youngest doctors in SA
Media release
SU to cap one of youngest doctors in SA
On 11 December, 21-year-old David Obagbuwa will graduate with an MBChB from Stellenbosch University (SU), becoming one of the youngest medical doctors to...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...