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Researcher's fascination with mosquito genetics may help address Zika crisis
[Karen N. Peart] Professor Jeffrey Powell began working on the mosquito that transmits the Zika virus when he was an undergraduate student 49 years ago... read


Food Crisis
State's food projects 'are failing'
Government programmes meant to tackle food insecurity are plagued by a lack of co-ordination, which results in duplication, undermining the reduction of hunger and starvation in the country, MPs heard Tuesday, 2 February 2016... read



Medical Research
In autism, the social benefits of being a girl

Karen N. Peart

Infant girls at risk for autism pay more attention to social cues in faces than infant boys, according to a Yale School of Medicine study... read
Medical Technology
Check your temperature with Theraflu campaign
In what is described as a world-first, Saatchi & Saatchi/ Interactive Solutions Poland and Saatchi & Saatchi Switzerland have joined forces to create an outdoor ad that detects fever, through a live thermo-scanner camera... read
Mining
Southern Africa's retrenched miners face a future without health care

Liesl Page-Shipp

Two of the world's mining heavyweights have announced production cuts and staff cutbacks... read
Neurology
Headaches are common cause of absenteeism
A recent study has found that migraine and tension-type headaches among the most common causes of lost work time and the prevalence is around the age of 40, a time when individuals are at the peak of their work abilities... read
Orthopaedics
Research in the news: Straight spines depend upon sawtooth protein pattern
The formation of the vertebrae in early embryonic development requires an intricate genetic dance requiring precise timing and interaction of many different cells... read
Public Health
SAA continues flying to Brazil despite virus outbreak
SAA will continue to fly between Johannesburg and Sao Paolo, in Brazil, after the World Health Organization concluded that there is no justification to impose a travel ban... read
Business
Building your profile in the business world
In this world, you ultimately receive exactly what your inward authentic self truly feels you deserve, no more and no less. Building your profile in business is very much about building your profile in life... read
Revealed: the big CFO miscalculation

Auguste Coetzer

Chief financial officers are not generally known for making miscalculations, but they are currently in danger of making a big one... with huge ramifications for their future prospects... read
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New events to diarise
Health Systems Trust Conference - 4 May 2016 to 6 May 2016, Boksburg
The HST gathering comes at a critical time when the world shifts its focus from the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals. Read more >>



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