سبتمبر 2021

 In 1803, John Braithwaite was a very elderly man. A gentleman farmer, once influential in his community, he was now struggling with a deter...

  Over a year since the first case of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, fast advances in vaccine development have given the world a fighting chance a...

  Recently, a school project made an alarming discovery: the presence of five times the recommended maximum amount of lead in water samples ...

  Men over the age of 35 in South Africa are not taking up the COVID-19 vaccination at the same rate as women. Only 40% of those who had bee...

  Earlier this year the UK introduced a “traffic light” system in yet another attempt to contain and mitigate the effects of COVID-19. The s...

 Every year nearly 60,000 people globally die of rabies, a deadly virus most commonly transmitted to humans by animal bites. Over 99% of the...

  South Africa has joined only a handful of countries in the world close to imposing a sugary drinks tax. A new bill that imposes a tax on s...

  Scientists are embarking on a massive clinical trial to test a drug to reduce the chances of people living with HIV developing heart disea...

  Each year more than nine million people die as a result of high blood pressure, 80% of them in low- and middle-income countries. Hypertens...

  The human papillomavirus (HPV) can cause an infection that can lead to warts almost anywhere over the body, including the tongue, if a per...

  The human papillomavirus (HPV) is responsible for a common sexually transmitted infection that shares the same name. Most sexually active ...

  Cervical cancer affects the entrance to the womb. The cervix is the narrow part of the lower uterus, often referred to as the neck of the ...

  Greater Sydney is in its third week of lockdown, with no clear end in sight. The situation calls for support both for businesses and house...

  On Sunday July 11, the federal government released two new COVID-19 campaigns. The first, shared across Australia, is a call to “arm yours...