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Sunday, 26 May 2013
| Press Release: UCT celebrates the return of Emeritus Professor Cyril Karabus
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The University of Cape Town has welcomed the return of Emeritus Associate Professor Cyril Karabus to South Africa, after being held in the United Arab Emirates since last August. | Ballim feasts on science with Nobel laureates in Japan
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It's rare that a researcher gets to ask questions directly of a Nobel laureate. For UCT's Dr Reyna Ballim, the 5th HOPE meeting in Tokyo, Japan, provided a scientific feast; the meeting hosted seven laureates (from between 1973 and 2008), in chemistry, physics and physiology or medicine. | Fear and anxiety in the social brain
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Research lead by Professor Jack van Honk (Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health) and Dr Barak Morgan (Department of Human Biology) is revealing new facts about the role of the amygdala, or the 'social brain', in an array of social behaviours - and especially its role in fear and anxiety disorders. | Child health care to the fore at first ever children's nursing conference
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"Welcome to all who are my friends and special in the lives of other children in hospital. May you learn new things here and come back to us renewed and energised and continue to give life to many." These were the words of welcome from 14-year-old Elandri, who receives on-going care at the Red Cross Children's War Memorial Hospital in Cape Town, to conference delegates attending South Africa's first ever children's nursing conference. | Mobile Xhosa translator helps the medicine go down
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It's a common problem healthcare practitioners face in a multilingual society: how to translate medical questions and ailments in another language accurately enough to provide correct diagnosis and treatment. | Health publications awards for UCT students
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UCT health science students Oluwatoyin Adeleke and Nadia Hussey have won a prestigious award from Health Systems Trust (HST) for articles they submitted for inclusion in the South African Health Review (SAHR). | Top international award for cardiovascular researcher
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Karen Sliwa-Hahnle, professor of cardiovascular research and director of UCT's Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research, has been awarded a top international award for her research into cardiovascular prevention, heart failure and the pathophysiology of cardiomyopathy.
| Statement on Professor Cyril Karabus: Call to boycott Africa Health Exhibition
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The leadership of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Cape Town calls on colleagues to withdraw participation in the Africa Health Exhibition, scheduled to be held between 7-9 May 2013 in Johannesburg, in protest at the ongoing unjust treatment of respected colleague Emeritis Professor Cyril Karabus by the United Arab Emirates (UAE). | Stem cells: Handle with care
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While stem cell technology is a real and present key to cures for inherited disorders, the watchword is caution, said Professor Jacquie Greenberg in her inaugural lecture on 17 April. "Stem cell prospects are the fuel of false promises. Many people want to hear they can be helped, but we must balance hype and hope." | Health sciences hosts centenary dinner in New York
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Vice-Chancellor Dr Max Price welcomed over 200 alumni from the US and Canada to the Faculty of Health Sciences centenary gala dinner at the Rosenthal Pavilion at New York University's Kimmel Centre on 31 March. | Statement from international paediatric body expresses outrage over Prof Karabus
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Statement from a new international paediatric body expresses outrage over Professor Karabus’ ongoing case. | International prize for Mizrahi's research and mentoring
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Professor Valerie Mizrahi, director of UCT's Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine (IIDMM), has been awarded the coveted Grand Prix Christophe Mérieux Prize by the Institute de France in Paris. | UCT experts sign Polio Scientific Declaration
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UCT vaccine and infectious disease experts joined more than 400 scientists from around the world to launch the Scientific Declaration on Polio Eradication on 11 April 2013. | Inaugural lecture charts roadmap to understanding brain function
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It is every human being's responsibility to understand how they use their brains. This was the contention of Professor Lauriston Kellaway of the Faculty of Health Sciences' Department of Human Biology during his recent Inaugural Lecture, titled Neurons, Cells and Circuits - The Roadmap to Understanding Brain Function | Stem cell technology aids disease research
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The use of stem cells to develop 'disease-in-a-dish' models, for studying disease aetiology and for drug screening, is gaining popularity worldwide. | Bateman wins 2012 Alan Pifer Award
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A commitment to use his "academic and enquiring skills" to contribute to society beyond the perceived confines of the laboratory and surgical theatre bagged UCT's Professor Eric Bateman the prestigious Alan Pifer Award for 2012. | Healthy Intervention for 3 Tons of Fun
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Cape Town-based, all-girl soul singing group 3 Tons of Fun are on a healthy lifestyle intervention based on research by the UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine (ESSM) at the Sports Science Institute of South Africa (SSISA).