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 ...

The role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the healthcare sector is expanding rapidly globally – with the US, especially, ...

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 ...

A remarkable study led by Stanford Medicine in the United States has found the brain is two separate organs adjacent to one another, a finding which could aid research into devastating neurological ...

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 ...

Cardiologists are struggling to figure out why a drug that should have prevented heart attacks didn’t work at all – one which ...

A task force of four major cardiac societies has introduced a new international heart attack definition, replacing the ...