Archive
Friday, 24 May 2013
May 2013
Press Release: UCT celebrates the return of Emeritus Professor Cyril Karabus - Friday, 17th
Breaking news: Prof Karabus to finally come home - Thursday, 16th
Ballim feasts on science with Nobel laureates in Japan - Monday, 13th
Fear and anxiety in the social brain - Monday, 13th
Child health care to the fore at first ever children's nursing conference - Friday, 10th
April 2013
Mobile Xhosa translator helps the medicine go down - Friday, 26th
Health publications awards for UCT students - Friday, 26th
Top international award for cardiovascular researcher - Thursday, 25th
Statement on Professor Cyril Karabus: Call to boycott Africa Health Exhibition - Wednesday, 24th
Stem cells: Handle with care - Friday, 19th
Health sciences hosts centenary dinner in New York - Thursday, 18th
Statement from international paediatric body expresses outrage over Prof Karabus - Thursday, 18th
International prize for Mizrahi's research and mentoring - Wednesday, 17th
UCT experts sign Polio Scientific Declaration - Monday, 15th
Inaugural lecture charts roadmap to understanding brain function - Monday, 15th
Stem cell technology aids disease research - Monday, 15th
Bateman wins 2012 Alan Pifer Award - Monday, 15th
Healthy Intervention for 3 Tons of Fun - Wednesday, 3rd
March 2013
Symposium explores nanotechnology for drugs, bio-engineering - Wednesday, 27th
'At the Intersection' Colloquium - Wednesday, 27th
African immunisation systems fall short, say UCT experts - Wednesday, 20th
The best medicine keeps health sciences moving - Friday, 15th
Coveted WUN grants for UCT researchers - Thursday, 7th
Institute says "enough" to violence against children - Wednesday, 6th
February 2013
Prof Cyril Karabus: Trial update - Thursday, 28th
Black Friday protest highlights value of DNA evidence - Monday, 25th
Single-dose cure for malaria is Elsevier review's top story - Friday, 22nd
"We say enough!" - Wednesday, 20th
UCT hosts inaugural SA Global Health Trials meeting - Tuesday, 19th
New Dean of Health Sciences for UCT - Wednesday, 13th
Appointment of new Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences - Tuesday, 12th
Changing guard at Department of Medicine - Monday, 11th
TB vaccine candidate trail results disappoint - Monday, 11th
Press Release: Data released from Historic TB Vaccine Candidate MVA85A - Monday, 4th
January 2013
SHAWCO to consolidate and build brand in 2013 - Monday, 28th
Joint statement from Deans of the Health Sciences faculties of the University of Cape and Stellenbosch University - Friday, 25th
Prof Cyril Karabus' fate still unresolved - Monday, 14th
Young health researchers add their voices to global initiative - Friday, 11th
December 2012
UCT mourns death of health economics pioneer - Friday, 21st
Fat hits the fan at diet debate - Friday, 14th
New study on TB vaccine for newborns of HIV-positive mothers - Monday, 10th
Health Sciences immortalised on film - Wednesday, 5th
UCT shares AIDS Day messages - Tuesday, 4th
UCT scholars to helm big African health initiatives - Monday, 3rd
UCT staff celebrated at certificate ceremony - Monday, 3rd
November 2012
Improvement district makes a difference - Friday, 30th
Results rain down on medical graduands - Wednesday, 28th
Top Southern African awards go to UCT scientists - Monday, 26th
International project to strengthen mental health systems - Friday, 23rd
Health practitioners walk the talk - Monday, 19th
Search for TB vaccine reaches a turning point - Monday, 19th
Conference calls for immunisation rollouts - Wednesday, 14th
The dead teach the living - Wednesday, 14th
From hair-trigger response to co-existence with HIV - Tuesday, 13th
Father of gastroenterology dies - Monday, 12th
Mathews takes the helm at Children's Institute - Monday, 12th
McIntyre elected to IOM - Monday, 12th
FHS annual Health Education Research Day - Tuesday, 6th
Dean of health says adieu - Thursday, 1st
October 2012
UCT scholar in new AIDS vaccine development - Tuesday, 30th
Baxter concert to support Cyril Karabus - Friday, 26th
Child Gauge 2012 shines spotlight on inequality and poverty - Wednesday, 24th
R25 million Australian grant for top heart researcher - Wednesday, 17th
Statement from the FHS Dean: Professor Karabus application for bail successful - Friday, 12th
Press Release from Division of Public Mental Health: Mental health and lost income - Wednesday, 10th
Visitors have heart to heart at UCT - Tuesday, 9th
Health sciences honours exemplary doctor - Monday, 8th
UCT delighted with Times Higher Education ranking - Thursday, 4th
Bateman wins top award - Monday, 1st
September 2012
Statement from the FHS Dean: Support for Prof Cyril Karabus - Thursday, 27th
Ethics still a challenge in healthcare, says scholar - Tuesday, 25th
Website a vital link in developing new research field - Wednesday, 19th
Children's Institute supports call for 'kinship grant' - Wednesday, 19th
Inaugural Wolfson Colloquium a fitting tribute to the Foundation - Tuesday, 11th
August 2012
'Knowing the enemy' a necessity in the fight against TB - Thursday, 30th
African research identifies strong candidate for possible single-dose malaria cure - Tuesday, 28th
Sport and exercise medicine physicians commissioned for top Paralympics study - Monday, 20th
Female voices from exile - Wednesday, 8th
School of Public Health turns 40 - Monday, 6th
July 2012
The hidden side of the Olympic Games - Friday, 27th
UCT student wins international fellowship - Wednesday, 25th
Fulbright specialist shares on HIV vaccines - Tuesday, 24th
Paralympics offers unique reward for Derman - Tuesday, 17th
Tempered optimism marks TB conference - Friday, 13th
Hearing test for Masi pre-scholers - Friday, 13th
UCT and government to formalise agreement regarding medical training - Tuesday, 10th
Soweto teenagers urged to live healthier - Friday, 6th
UCT the place to be for study-abroad students - Friday, 6th
Valve revolutionises heart surgery - Wednesday, 4th
June 2012
Health Sciences gets clinical about research - Thursday, 21st
Screening model hailed by international journal - Wednesday, 20th
Newest A-rated academic announced - Friday, 15th
Medical interpreters a boon for public health - Friday, 15th
Cuba cure in doctor shortage - Friday, 15th
Here's cheers to a 100 more, FHS - Friday, 8th
UCT faculty celebrates 100 years - Friday, 8th
Strong Medicine - Friday, 8th
HIV: a complexity of challenges - Tuesday, 5th
It's in my DNA, Figaji says - Monday, 4th
It's in my DNA, Figaji says - Monday, 4th
HIV: a cocktail of challenges - Monday, 4th
It's a gut feeling - Monday, 4th
Think lean in transforming healthcare, says graduate - Monday, 4th
May 2012
Centre celebrates Africa through its work - Friday, 25th
Health Minister celebrates centenary - Monday, 21st
Medical centenary extravaganza - Friday, 18th
Medical musical merriment at the Baxter - Thursday, 17th
Develop drugs in Africa, for Africa - Thursday, 10th
HUMA launches book on AIDS, intimacy and care - Wednesday, 9th
Students extend a hand to Ottery community - Thursday, 3rd
Servier Fellowship in Psychopharmacology - Thursday, 3rd
Go big on PhDs, says Mayosi - Wednesday, 2nd
April 2012
Health sciences turns 100 - Monday, 23rd
March 2012
Chibale bags the Alan Pifer Award - Tuesday, 20th
February 2012
Doctors by day; musicians by night - Tuesday, 14th
January 2012
Programme for health professional educators - Tuesday, 31st
Africa must sort its own problems, says fellow - Monday, 23rd
Mizrahi talks TB on BBC World Service - Monday, 23rd
Medical professor joins international fellowship - Friday, 20th
December 2011
UCT centres lead the way - Thursday, 29th
Health Sciences get the grad rolling - Monday, 12th
World AIDS Day: Experts highlight the importance of mental health care - Thursday, 1st
November 2011
IIDMM under the microscope - Thursday, 24th
Brainy researchers win mental health prizes - Friday, 18th
Awards aplenty at Obstetrics & Gynaecology - Friday, 18th
Work programme to benefit those with disabilities - Wednesday, 16th
Christmas in a box - Monday, 7th
Giving a voice to the dead - Thursday, 3rd
Vitamin D deficiency linked to TB - Wednesday, 2nd
October 2011
Clinical skills lab to boost confidence - Wednesday, 26th
News in brief - 25 October - Tuesday, 25th
Future of medical research in rude health - Wednesday, 19th
Handwashing a life saver - Friday, 14th
World Mental Health Day a local concern, too - Friday, 7th
News bytes - 04 October - Tuesday, 4th
September 2011
Quality leadership key in health sector - Motsoaledi - Thursday, 29th
Social context vital to HIV education and research - Thursday, 29th
Researchers the toast of UCT - Thursday, 29th
NRF kudos for UCT scholars - Thursday, 15th
August 2011
Inclusivity and participation key to health care, says Reid - Tuesday, 30th
Campaign fosters social responsiveness - Friday, 26th
Students on cloud UCT - Friday, 19th
UCT in new TB trial - Friday, 19th
UCT women aplenty in M&G book - Wednesday, 17th
Integrate mental health with HIV care - conference - Tuesday, 16th
News bytes II - 11 August 2011 - Thursday, 11th
UCT surgeon bags Shoprite award - Thursday, 11th
News bytes - Wednesday, 3rd
Helicopter in emergency landing at UCT - Wednesday, 3rd
July 2011
Conference inspires health managers - Friday, 1st
Graduate and family psyched about win - Friday, 1st
June 2011
Occupational therapy gets a leg up - Monday, 20th
Health sciences is 99 years and counting down - Tuesday, 14th
UCT staff and students among the best - Tuesday, 14th
Student piques interest with her TB findings - Wednesday, 8th
Medical focus on Anglo-Boer War takes UCT Book Award - Tuesday, 7th
Barnard's book reveals all - Friday, 3rd
May 2011
Toolkit aids access to rights to health - Tuesday, 31st
Trio of triumph for UCT at NSTF awards - Friday, 27th
Collaborating to save children's sight in sub-Saharan Africa - Friday, 20th
Sports scientists put heads together to explore the brain - Thursday, 19th
City salutes UCT luminaries - Thursday, 12th
Vaccine development the answer to TB - Hanekom - Monday, 9th
April 2011
Prestigious awards for young TB researchers - Tuesday, 26th
Pesticide Risk Management Diploma a first for FHS - Friday, 8th
UCT wins multilingualism awards - Monday, 4th
March 2011
UCT Lung Institute celebrates 10 years of health care innovations - Tuesday, 29th
Full year ahead for UCT Surgical Society - Thursday, 24th
New book confronts global health threats - Wednesday, 23rd
NIH visit to Faculty hailed a success - Saturday, 12th
Be compassionate, students urged - Friday, 11th
Balancing hype and hope is the challenge for genome science - Friday, 11th
The "bald truth" of the CANSA Shavathon - Thursday, 10th
HEU awarded 5-year EU grant - Monday, 7th
European parliamentarians visit SATVI trial - Tuesday, 1st
February 2011
Celebration at opening of Hanover Park Student Learning Centre - Monday, 28th
Lung Institute breathes new life into old TB clinic - Thursday, 24th
Computers chip in on heart disease - Monday, 21st
New funding opens the research gates - Monday, 21st
Professor shakes things up in cardiac studies - Friday, 18th
Know their rights, says Children's Institute - Friday, 18th
No room for mediocrity with Mizrahi at the helm - Friday, 4th
Prize inspires students - Tuesday, 1st
December 2010
Medical teachers grab 2010 awards - Monday, 6th
Medical grads rekindle old friendships - Wednesday, 1st
November 2010
Union Scientific award for UCT pulmonologist - Tuesday, 30th
Trust me, I'm a (new) doctor - Tuesday, 30th
The dark side of saving children - Monday, 29th
Cape Heart Centre to commemorate the first heart transplant on 3 December 2010 - Wednesday, 24th
New study shows that a pill a day can reduce HIV infection - Wednesday, 24th
International Research Review is a first for the Faculty of Health Sciences - Tuesday, 23rd
New Powerlab for Department of Human Biology - Tuesday, 23rd
Child health: A call for action - Tuesday, 16th
Faculty mourns the loss of Professor Cas Motala - Tuesday, 16th
"Children in developing countries have access to fewer vaccines", Vaccinology participants told - Tuesday, 16th
The genes are in the running - Tuesday, 16th
Noakes clears 10 000 milestone - Friday, 12th
AG Oettle Memorial Medal of Honor citation - Wednesday, 3rd
ASSAF Award - Wednesday, 3rd
Recovery drink is novel pay-off for sports scientist - Tuesday, 2nd
Cancer-fighters honoured by national association - Monday, 1st
Blindness not a death sentence - student - Monday, 1st
October 2010
Health sciences toasts its young researchers - Thursday, 28th
Wise verse and laughter prescribed - Thursday, 21st
To know the future, know the past - Friday, 1st
September 2010
Double header inaugural for medical biochemistry - Thursday, 30th
TB workshop poses thorny question - Monday, 6th
August 2010
Brainy neurosurgery at the foot of Africa - Monday, 30th
Ray of light from new imaging spinoff - Friday, 20th
SATVI's new tank to fight TB - Friday, 13th
Students bring smiles to disabled - Friday, 13th
July 2010
New award to encourage young medical scientists - Wednesday, 28th
A retreat from the hospital - Monday, 26th
New doctors to boost public health - Friday, 9th
June 2010
HIV kidney ops grab world attention - Wednesday, 30th
Obituary: Lord Wolfson - Monday, 21st
International ethics prize for Stein - Monday, 14th
Five honorary doctorates to be awarded at mid-year grad - Thursday, 3rd
May 2010
New unit will track and study hospital-based infections - Monday, 31st
Kids have a mountain to climb in Lavender Hill - Monday, 31st
Consolidate Afropolitanism in teaching and learning - Nhlapo - Monday, 31st
Soccer fever hits health sciences - Thursday, 27th
Genetic lineages make people react differently to drugs - Wednesday, 26th
HIV nurses roll out their knowledge - Friday, 21st
Mummies, cats, bulls and dissection - Wednesday, 5th
State-of-the-art equipment for UCT - Tuesday, 4th
Robertson entertains her doctors - Tuesday, 4th
CD-Roms bridge communication gap - Monday, 3rd
April 2010
Trauma surgeons address Surgical Society - Wednesday, 21st
Go rural, say medical students - Friday, 16th
Conference gets Lancet nod of approval - Wednesday, 7th
March 2010
Building programme will endorse development and transformation at UCT - Monday, 29th
Stein wins prestigious Pifer Award - Monday, 29th
Medical biography picks up UCT book award - Monday, 29th
Real test of survival - for a good cause - Wednesday, 24th
Healthcare watchdog set loose - Tuesday, 23rd
UCT and Maties go at it again - on the road - Thursday, 18th
Malawian physiotherapist visits UCT - Friday, 12th
UCT Surgical Society reaches out - Wednesday, 10th
Bourne's contribution honoured - Monday, 8th
February 2010
Medicine department turns 90 - in style - Monday, 22nd
UCT pathologist scoops top award - Monday, 15th
January 2010
Ralph Lawrence: 1920-2009 - Monday, 25th
Neurologist draws in the crowds - Tuesday, 19th
Enquiring mind drives Kairinos to win more - Monday, 18th
December 2009
UCT brings cheer to hospital patients - Thursday, 24th
Kit Vaughan delivers his adieus - Thursday, 24th
Outstanding care wins top award for Roux - Monday, 7th
UCT scholars get country's highest honours - Friday, 4th
Huge jubilations mark medical results bash - Friday, 4th
Pacemakers that can take a beating - Thursday, 3rd
Prevention is better than cure - says Van As - Tuesday, 1st
November 2009
Mental health for mothers goes digital - Monday, 23rd
New centre tackles other disease burden - Friday, 13th
Victory for child-grant lobby - Monday, 2nd
October 2009
Researcher puts TB screening to the test - Monday, 26th
Kiss of life for lung-infection research - Monday, 26th
Three win fellowships for TB research - Friday, 16th
Mendelson is the new president of infectious disease federation - Monday, 12th
Ntusi takes prestigious Nuffield Oxford Medical Fellowship - Monday, 12th
From emergency medicine to five-star winemaking - Thursday, 1st
UCT community to march for slain medical student - Thursday, 1st
September 2009
Campus mourns; motive for shooting unknown - Tuesday, 29th
UCT join forces with ER24 for medical emergencies - Monday, 28th
Vaccination programmes a moral obligation - Monday, 28th
College of Fellows boosts their ranks by seven - Monday, 28th
Doctors' strikes a see-saw between public health and self-interest - Monday, 28th
International Olympic Committee endorsement for sports medicine research unit - Monday, 28th
Red Cross unveils world-class facility - Thursday, 17th
August 2009
First baby vaccinated in pioneering TB trial - Thursday, 6th
July 2009
Langerman exhibition on representation of disease - Wednesday, 29th
February 2009
Calls to alms and support at Zimbabwe assembly - Monday, 16th