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Healthcare

Why is it so difficult to make a new antibiotic?

Alistair Farley and Helen Smith 5 hours

Shining the spotlight on TB

Tuberculosis

Shining the spotlight on TB

Issued by Bonitas 24 Mar 2025

More than 200-million litres of untreated or partially treated sewage is released into False Bay daily. Photos: Steve Kretzmann / GroundUp

Circular Economy & Waste Management

Failing sewage plants continue to pollute False Bay

Steve Kretzmann 16 Feb 2024

Taskeen Hasrod to represent South Africa in international FameLab competition

Science & Engineering

Taskeen Hasrod to represent South Africa in international FameLab competition

22 Sep 2023

How cultivated meat technology will affect farmers, veterinary professionals

Agro-processing

How cultivated meat technology will affect farmers, veterinary professionals

20 Mar 2023

Marine life in Western Cape's False Bay is full of chemical pollutants

Circular Economy & Waste Management

Marine life in Western Cape's False Bay is full of chemical pollutants

Leslie Petrik and Cecilia Yejide Ojemaye 2 Jun 2022

Covid-19

Treatment of Covid with antibiotics could add to the problem of drug resistance

Adam Mustapha 17 Jan 2022

Swapping probiotics for antibiotics: How it could be a game changer for chickens, and us

Agro-processing

Swapping probiotics for antibiotics: How it could be a game changer for chickens, and us

3 Dec 2021

Biodegradable cigarette butts a potential source of toxic pollution

Circular Economy & Waste Management

Biodegradable cigarette butts a potential source of toxic pollution

19 Mar 2021

Dr Bha Ndungane-Tlakula, country medical director, Pfizer South Africa

Public Health

Antimicrobial resistance - a threat to modern health

20 Nov 2020

UKZN’s Emeritus Professor Anna Coutsoudis

HIV/AIDS

SA study recommends changes to PMTCT guidelines

10 Nov 2020

Illustration of Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria. GettyImages

Infectious Diseases

Drug-resistant gonorrhoea is a growing threat: a South African case study

Remco Peters & Liteboho Daniel Maduna 28 Oct 2020

Michael Moloney/Shutterstock

Medical Research

Antibiotic resistance: cheap diagnostic test could be a saviour

Lara Marks & Ankur Mutreja 11 Aug 2020

Commonly used antibiotics are no longer working. solarseven/ Shutterstock

Medical Research

Antibiotic resistance: new discovery could change the future of treatment

David Moyes & Victoria Carr 25 Feb 2020

The government must harness analytical technologies developed by pharmaceutical scientists in Nigeria Sebastian Condrea/GettyImages

Pharmaceuticals

What I've learnt about drug testing in Nigeria over the last 20 years

Sunday Olakunle Idowu 18 Feb 2020

Bacteriophages infecting a bacterial cell.
Design_Cells/ Shutterstock

Pharmaceuticals

Antibiotic resistance: scientists are reengineering viruses to cure bacterial infections

Manal Mohammed & Andrew Millard 21 Jan 2020

Aquaculture farmers often use antibiotics this can result in antibiotic-resistance in seafood. Shutterstock

Nutrition

What we found about bacteria that resist antibiotics in seafood

Olumide A Odeyemi 3 Dec 2019

Pharmaceuticals

Antibiotics: interplay between humans, animals and the environment is key

Sabiha Essack 28 Nov 2019

20 awarded in regional L'Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Young Talent Awards

Education & Skills Development

20 awarded in regional L'Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Young Talent Awards

25 Nov 2019

A.G. Sanders with penicillin extraction equipment. Image reproduced with permission of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Author provided

Pharmaceuticals

Big Pharma has failed: the antibiotic pipeline needs to be taken under public ownership

Claas Kirchhelle, Adam Roberts & Andrew Singer 20 Nov 2019

Pharmaceuticals

Antibiotic resistance could claim 10-million lives a year by 2050

Robin Green 18 Nov 2019

Millions of young children get malaria. These two got it in 2010.
AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam

Pharmaceuticals

There's a way for modern medicine to cure diseases even when the treatments aren't profitable

James Leahy 28 Oct 2019

The lack diagnostic laboratory systems exacerbates antibiotic resistance in Africa. Shutterstock

Medical Research

Antibiotic resistance: why tests are key to arresting the trend

Cédric Yansouni, Matthew P Cheng 4 Oct 2019

Researchers have evidence of another method that bacteria use to avoid antibiotics. Sirirat/Shutterstock

Medical Research

Researchers have directly proven that bacteria can change shape inside humans to avoid antibiotics

Katarzyna Mickiewicz 1 Oct 2019

Prioritising herd health, why antibiotic resistance is a threat to SA's beef industry

Agro-processing

Prioritising herd health, why antibiotic resistance is a threat to SA's beef industry

4 Sep 2019

New report: Lack of water in health facilities puts patients at risk

Healthcare

New report: Lack of water in health facilities puts patients at risk

9 May 2019

A South African study found that most doctors and nurses prescribed antibiotics for a viral infection even when patients discouraged them from doing so. Photo via Flickr by Chilanga Cement (CC BY 2.0)

Pharmaceuticals

UN report warns of disastrous consequences of antibiotic resistance

30 Apr 2019

Feeding farm animals seaweed could help fight antibiotic resistance and climate change

Sustainable Farming

Feeding farm animals seaweed could help fight antibiotic resistance and climate change

Lauren Ford and Pamela Judith Walsh 1 Apr 2019

South African doctors are giving antibiotics to healthy patients, a new study revealed. Image source: Gallo/Getty

Medical Research

Undercover researchers went into doctors' rooms. You won't believe what they found.

Joan van Dyk 25 Mar 2019

Raihana Asral/Shutterstock

Pharmaceuticals

Antibiotic resistance: public awareness campaigns might not work

Marco Haenssgen 6 Mar 2019

Why farmers need to rethink the use of shotgun antibiotics

Agro-processing

Why farmers need to rethink the use of shotgun antibiotics

26 Feb 2019

New osteomyelitis treatment without antibiotics

Medical Research

New osteomyelitis treatment without antibiotics

31 Jan 2019

Professor Sally-Ann Cryan

Tuberculosis

Breakthrough in TB treatment

8 Jan 2019

Why the issue of drug resistance in animal farming means a fight against urban elites

Research & Development

Why the issue of drug resistance in animal farming means a fight against urban elites

27 Dec 2018

Widespread, occasional use of antibiotics in US linked with resistance

Public Health

Widespread, occasional use of antibiotics in US linked with resistance

19 Dec 2018

There already exist some promising new antibiotic therapies, and more are in the pipeline. However, our economic model prevents researchers from moving them out onto the market.
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Healthcare

Humanity under threat from antibiotic-resistant infections

Gerry Wright 19 Nov 2018

Medical Research

What's needed to do a better job of pre-empting disease outbreaks

William B Karesh 22 Oct 2018

CTICC hosts AI robot Miss Pepper

MICE

CTICC hosts AI robot Miss Pepper

8 Oct 2018

Public Health

Penicillin was discovered 90 years ago - and despite resistance, the future looks good for antibiotics

Alastair Hay 21 Sep 2018

Dr Stanley Hazen

Pharmaceuticals

New class of drug could reduce cardiovascular risk

13 Aug 2018

Professor Keertan Dheda, UCT director of the lung infection and immunity unit. Photo: UCT

Medical Research

New UCT unit to tackle origins of antimicrobial resistance

4 Jul 2018

Study: Antibiotic resistance is growing in low- and middle-income countries

Medical Research

Study: Antibiotic resistance is growing in low- and middle-income countries

28 Mar 2018

WHO keeps tabs on antibiotic resistance with new system

Public Health

WHO keeps tabs on antibiotic resistance with new system

7 Feb 2018

#AntibioticAwareness: Misuse threatens antimicrobial effectiveness

Hospital Groups

#AntibioticAwareness: Misuse threatens antimicrobial effectiveness

13 Nov 2017

Penicillin shortages as pharma companies eye newer, more lucrative drugs

Pharmaceuticals

Penicillin shortages as pharma companies eye newer, more lucrative drugs

KEILA GUIMARÃES 8 Jun 2017

SA increasingly marketed as top medical tourism destination

Tourism & Travel

SA increasingly marketed as top medical tourism destination

15 May 2017

Source: Medihow

Healthcare

Hand hygiene helps prevent antimicrobial-resistant infections

5 May 2017

Six ways the meat on your plate is killing the planet

Agriculture

Six ways the meat on your plate is killing the planet

Francis Vergunst and Julian Savulescu 26 Apr 2017

Catastrophic antibiotic threat from food

Agriculture

Catastrophic antibiotic threat from food

Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Tan Zhai Gen 7 Apr 2017

Vaccines to be used against antibiotic-resistant typhoid

Infectious Diseases

Vaccines to be used against antibiotic-resistant typhoid

Lilian Namagembe 7 Apr 2017