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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Dr Mimi Mukwevho knew she wanted to be a doctor when she was 10 years old, but instead of setting up a local general practice ...

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 ...

Firms are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to convince US doctors to prescribe GLP-1 drugs, with most medical specialists apparently seeing nothing wrong with this, reports The Washington Post ...

Community unrest and the liquidation of a contractor have been blamed for further delays to the decade-long construction of the (new) Mapulaneng Regional Hospital in Mpumalanga, which was supposed to ...

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 ...

A Missouri judge was urged last week by Bayer’s Monsanto unit to approve its $7.25bn proposed settlement of lawsuits alleging that its weedkiller Roundup causes cancer, saying this was the only way to ...

Researchers have warned that air pollution levels in South Africa, and exposure to higher levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) – especially in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal – are placing residents at ...

In a blow to Cape Town’s Life Vincent Pallotti Hospital, the High Court has refused it leave to appeal against a ruling that restored the practising and admission privileges of an oncologist accused ...