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18 August 2022 12:22

Breastfeeding: Know about the incredible benefits for mom and baby?

Breast milk – the perfect meal for your baby
“Breastmilk comes in excellent packaging, it’s available on-demand, always fresh, the perfect concentration for a growing baby’s needs, at the right temperature and overall is packed with amazing, nutritious and protective elements for baby,” says Dr Noluthando Nematswerani, Head of the Centre for Clinical Excellence at Discovery Health, in celebrati

From left to right: J’Something, David Higgs and The Lazy Makoti prepare to cook up a storm to make dreams come true.

15 August 2022 12:05

Join an online cook-along to help realise a child’s dream

Celebrity chefs come together to cook for children with life-threatening illnesses. Cooking for Dreams Fundraiser, in association with Discovery Vitality, takes place on 1 September 2022 with an online cook-along open to all.

10 August 2022 11:57

South African women need more income protection cover – and continue to see the value of cover for cancers

Johannesburg, 10 August 2022: Every year, in August, South Africa marks Women’s Day and Discovery Life undertakes to reflect on its efforts to close the gendered insurance gap in our country. In 2019, ASISA conducted a gap study which found that women have an insurance gap of nearly R15 trillion. An analysis of Discovery Life’s 2021 claims data shows that while women hold 47% of all life polic

27 July 2022 15:28

Road to Sun City gets a plug from the Pothole Patrol

Thanks to The Pothole Patrol, business and leisure travellers from Gauteng will no longer have to navigate potholes when they travel to Sun City for holidays or to attend business events.
The innovative initiative is a partnership between the City of Johannesburg, Discovery Insure and Dialdirect Insurance. In its first year alone, it repaired over 100 000 potholes in Johannesburg.
Now for th

19 July 2022 14:59

Live simulation of Discovery’s Hospital at Home demonstrates sophistication of hospital-level care in the home

On 14 July 2022 members of the media and healthcare professionals, convened at Discovery’s Sandton headquarters, together with local and international thought leaders in home healthcare, to witness a live simulation of Discovery’s Hospital at Home programme.
“Participants gained first-hand experience of just how sophisticated the system is and how safely and meticulously hospital-level care can

The above graph depicts driving patterns starting from a pre-COVID period at the beginning of 2020, until the month of June 2022. Shaded sections highlight the various waves of the pandemic.

14 July 2022 11:50

SA’s most popular days for driving to work are Tuesdays and Wednesdays, according to recently released driving data

Discovery Insure’s new Work From Home Index has revealed an average of three days per week that people are physically travelling between work and home. These are the two most common destinations between which many people travel – often more than once a week – ordinarily every week.
During the past two years, our movement patterns between these two destinations have shifted and Discovery Insure

8 July 2022 13:25

Discovery Foundation awards R16 million to public sector doctors in 2021

Despite another challenging year, the Discovery Foundation continues to support ground-breaking clinical research and medical training in South Africa, with research grants for 22 public sector doctors and nine institutions in 2021.

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