Health, well-being and sustainable development, intrinsically connected

Posted on August 22, 2018

To achieve Sustainable Development Goal 3 which entails ‘ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages,’ involves strengthening of the implementation of the framework convention on tobacco control and providing access to medicines and vaccines. It also involves...

New breast cancer research shows promise for the future

Posted on July 30, 2018

A major challenge in cancer research is to find agents that target cancer cells, while leaving healthy cells alone and unharmed. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments can have many undesirable side effects because they damage healthy cells as well.

The power of lightning

Posted on June 25, 2018

Lightning is a natural phenomenon that most people do not fully understand. Its magnitude and force is so great that it has the potential to cause devastating destruction, bringing damage to infrastructure, livelihoods and even life. Yet, it is something many people seem to underestimate and even...

UP academics are category finalists in NSTF Awards

Posted on June 11, 2018

Profs Namrita Lall, Xiaohua Xia, Mmantsae Diale, Kevin Wall and the University of Pretoria Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control (UP ISMC), headed by Prof Tiaan de Jager are category finalists in this year’s prestigious National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF) Awards.

Beware of malaria – even in the winter

Posted on May 08, 2018

Malaria transmission in South Africa is seasonal and the months of September to May are malaria- or high season months. The summer rains during the first quarter of the year brings with them an increase in the number of malaria cases and malaria transmission is at its highest during the warmer...

Three NSTF Award nominees for Faculty of Health Sciences

Posted on April 19, 2018

The University of Pretoria’s (UP) Faculty of Health Sciences has three staff members who are accepted nominees in the highly acclaimed National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF) Awards 2017/2018.

Global public health issue of patient safety under the spotlight in Doctor of Laws thesis

Posted on February 14, 2018

The Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria is proud to announce that another one of its staff members has qualified as a Doctor of Laws on Monday, 12 February 2018. Dr William Oosthuizen's (29) thesis, titled 'Reconciling patient safety and liability: Lessons from a Just Culture' deals...

UP leads the world in using nuclear therapy to fight cancer

Posted on February 09, 2018

Most people have, in some way or other, been affected by cancer, whether through the loss of a loved one or a personal fight against the big C, a dreaded and often incurable disease.