On Saturday,15 June at a special event at Delta Park in Victory Park, Johannesburg, Vitality, together with sponsors adidas and Blue Label Telecoms announced their new partnership with parkrun South Africa, run by multiple Comrades winner, Bruce Fordyce. Marathon runners and Olympians, René Kalmer, Irvette van Zyl (née van Blerk) and LJ van Zyl, South Africa’s 400m hurdle champion, were present.
Discovery Vitality’s aim in developing the Vitality Fittest City Index is to determine how each of South Africa’s six major metropolitan areas rank in physical activity-related health and infrastructure that promotes physical activity...
Discovery Health continues to grow and attract new members to the schemes that it administers. In March, Discovery Health had more than 2.77 million lives under management.
30 May 2013 – Discovery walked off with three awards at the prestigious annual Financial Intermediaries Association of Southern Africa (FIA) Awards held in Johannesburg tonight. The awards recognise and honour South Africa’s leading product providers in the financial services industry.
29 May 2013 - The fifth Discovery Health Journalism Awards were held in Johannesburg today. Mia Malan, Health Editor of the Mail & Guardian, walked away with the Discovery Health Journalist of the Year title.
Mia Malan is the Mail & Guardian’s health editor and director of the M&G Health Journalism Centre, Bhekisisa.
Discovery Foundation launches new annual grant for academic medicine in partnership with Massachusetts General Hospital
Tens of thousands of walkers joined in this year’s Discovery East Coast Radio Big Walk on Sunday 25 May, making it the biggest and most successful yet. The event has grown significantly in size and stature, from just 1800 walkers taking part in 2004 to 33 521 people entering this year...
Discovery announces the launch of the Vitality Institute in New York, US. The Institute brings together the world’s leading experts and practitioners in wellness, health promotion and disease management in a large-scale collaboration to positively impact public debate around health promotion
Discovery Vitality and the Sports Science Institute of South Africa (SSISA) are proud to host the Discovery Vitality Summit to be held at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg from 15 - 17 August 2013. The Discovery Vitality Summit builds on the success of the annual Discovery Vitality Wellness and Fitness Convention...
Discovery Health continues to grow and attract new members to the schemes that it administers. In February, Discovery Health had close to 2.77 million lives under management.
Making healthy food options more affordable for consumers has been shown to be the right recipe to get people changing their diets for the better. Research by RAND Corporation, the largest independent policy research programme in the US, shows that lowering the costs of healthy foods in supermarkets motivates people to make fewer unhealthy purchases, including sweets, crisps and sugary drinks...
