A breast cancer diagnosis and the illnesses that followed transformed Kwanele Asante into one of Africa’s most prominent ...

Some patients’ accounts raise tantalising questions about what happens inside a brain afflicted by dementia and whether ...

Claims that Gauteng EMS staff were suspended for refusing to work overtime with extra pay have been denied by the Department of Health, reports EWN. Last week the DA claimed that 17 staff at the Selby ...

Scientists have identified two simple body measurements that together are linked to nearly double the risk of death, and ...

The Eastern Cape Department of Health is taking its fight against lump-sum payments for medico-legal claims to the Constitutional Court, punting alternative measures instead as part of a wider drive ...

South Africa cannot sustainably reduce its medico-legal burden without reducing the underlying failures that generate ...

Plans for a brand new academic hospital in Gauteng are being advanced, says the Gauteng Department of Health, as are those for a 300-bed mother and child unit extension and some major and critical ...

The SA Revenue Services wants R1.9bn from alleged Tembisa Hospital kingpin Hangwani Morgan Maumela, who has still not been formally charged in the looting scandal, reports News24, and who the Receiver ...

The South African Dental Technicians Council (SADTC) is expected to consider Cape Peninsula University of Technology’s (CPUT) representations before deciding whether to forge ahead with a request to ...

As GLP-1 drugs reach more patients, experts are confronting difficult questions about appetite suppression, eating-disorder risk, and how clinicians should monitor people who may be vulnerable.

South Africa is experiencing widespread shortages of essential medicines, including folic acid, epilepsy medication, contraceptives and antibiotics, with some products out of stock for months and ...

Only one of the 13 public hospitals treating childhood cancer in South Africa has a blood bank on site, and just three have transplant beds. These shocking findings, from the PRoFILE facility survey ...