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‘I am afraid the news is not good’: How medics struggled to break sad news during Covid-19
Unpredictability of Covid-19 meant health workers were caught off-guard by sudden deaths and did not always prepare families for the news, study suggests.
‘I buy food in bulk to save, I don’t qualify for funding’: Unfunded university students are struggling
The education department says nearly 70,000 students don’t qualify for NSFAS because their household income is above R350,000.
Doubling sugar tax will help starving children: NGO’s plea to Godongwana
The tax works out to about 10% of the cost of sugary drinks
‘Our patients bear the true cost’ of shoestring budgets: jobless junior doctors
Hot in the heels of unemployed doctors’ march to KZN offices, a Western Cape cohort highlights austerity that ‘could be catastrophic’
‘As medical practitioners, we should assist patients to have as gentle and peaceful a death as possible’
Leading doctors and academics say it is important that ‘medically assisted dying is patient-initiated and patient-driven’
Cape Town International Jazz Festival postponed to ‘later in 2024’
The festival attracted about 30,000 people each year and was one of the biggest and most popular jazz festivals in the world
Here’s why childhood spent in a rural area is good for your health
Research examined how environmental exposure influenced inflammatory response in children
SA’s cancer treatment obstacles are causing ‘needless deaths’
Blacks experience greater hurdles than whites as 70% of cancer specialists in the public sector are white and hindered by language barriers, says report
Inadequate disability grants for SA children thrust families into poverty
Stellenbosch University PhD graduate’s study has found families without an income that care for a disabled child, can barely survive on the state grant
SA researchers who discovered Omicron variant to partner with UK lab to uncover more pathogens
Partnership will allow research teams to share resources and ideas to monitor waterborne diseases and viruses that have pandemic potential





















