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...
Opinion and features
World Diabetes Day: Workplaces, community-oriented primary care can curb diabetes
World Diabetes Day was observed on 14 November. In opinion pieces for the media, experts at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences argue that well-designed...
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...
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...
Institutional news
Prof Regan Solomons helps save lives of children with tuberculous meningitis
Prof Regan Solomons from the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at Tygerberg Hospital and the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Stellenbosch...
Media release
Primary care providers need stronger support to deliver mental health services
In South Africa, up to nine out of ten patients with mental health disorders do not receive treatment or have access to mental healthcare programmes. Primary...
Impact
Theewaterskloof InReach: Multi-sector collaboration brings vital services to rural communities
Last week, partners from government, universities, and the public and private sectors descended on the Theewaterskloof sub-district to deliver health, wellness...
Medicine and health
New study highlights role of fathers’ drinking in foetal alcohol spectrum disorder
It's a well-known fact that foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) in children is caused by mothers who drink during pregnancy. But it turns out that the...
Media release
Stellenbosch University launches Africa's most advanced Medical Morphology Learning Centre
Stellenbosch University (SU) today officially opened the Medical Morphology Learning Centre (MMLC), establishing Africa's largest and most technologically...