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Functioning pharmacovigilance system important for patient safety
All medicines have the potential to cause unwanted, uncomfortable or dangerous effects also known as adverse drug reactions (ADRs). “To protect patients and to identify and characterise evidence-based causal relationships between ADRs and...
#Researchforimpact: Africa-UK trilateral research chair to help empower African women
As African cities become increasingly urbanised, most households end up living in informal settlements, challenging urban planners on the obligation to build sustainable cities and communities. Also, the demand for energy grows. Because...
Cape fur seals can nurse their pups well into adulthood
Some Cape fur seal ( Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus) mothers may nurse their young for several years longer than previously thought, thereby potentially improving their offspring's chances of survival. The observations of this unusual...
How women in academia are feeling the brunt of COVID-19
This article was first published on The Conversation . Read the original article here . The COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent public health response of lockdown has brought into sharp relief the constraints faced by women across the...
#WomenofSU: Fighting for the economic rights of women
Dr Nthabiseng Moleko is used to wearing many hats. She is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Stellenbosch Business School, a poet, an author and serves as a commissioner on the Commission on Gender Equality. Despite being a...
Preschooler raises funds for Maties #Train4Fees campaign
Michael Allcock (5) is in the home straight of walking 50 km in support of Stellenbosch University's #Train4Fees campaign. In fact, the campaign's youngest fundraiser might even add a few kilometres to his goal now that the campaign's end...
FMHS mourns the loss of extraordinary clinician and researcher
Members of the management team at Stellenbosch University's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) expressed their profound sadness at the death of Professor Lungile Pepeta, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences of Nelson...
Stellenbosch University to expand research capacity in astronomy
The Department of Physics at Stellenbosch University (SU) will further strengthen its research capacity in astronomy and astrophysics with the appointment of Prof Yin-Zhe Ma, an internationally recognized researcher in the field of...
SU scientists spearhead pharmacogenomics platform for rapid screening tests to aid cancer treatment
A R3 million grant from the South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC) will enable Stellenbosch University (SU) scientists to test the efficacy of a novel gene-based point-of-care screening tool that will help clinicians determine the...
E-learning generates real-world learning opportunities, says SPL lecturer
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. This is how Dr Ruenda Loots, a lecturer in the School of Public Leadership (SPL), described the shift to online teaching that was brought about by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)...