Latest Blogs

  • AGE AT MENOPAUSE MAY BE RELATED TO THE PREVALENCE OF CERVICAL CANCER

    Written by Trinity King Menopause is a natural part of ageing that usually marks the end of a woman’s reproductive years. Often characterised by hot flashes, brain fog, sleep problems, emotional changes, and irregular periods, it is the point at which a woman’s ovaries stop releasing eggs, and your body produces less estrogen. Most view…

  • Teaching computers to read coroner’s reports

    By Kae Jansen van Vuuren There is nothing more arduous than manual data entry, but it is unfortunately a key process in death classifications and recording overdose deaths. Across the world, there is a rising rate of drug-related deaths, which need swift and accurate surveillance to inform public health decisions, but overdose data is buried…

Latest Student Reflections

  • Reflection on My Honours Year (So Far)

    By Tony Noveld This year has been a bit like learning to breathe underwater — familiar, yet entirely new. Coming from the relentless pace of the MBChB program into the world of honours-level research in Infectious Diseases & Immunology felt like stepping into a parallel universe where the rules weren’t always clear, the path wasn’t…