Provincial Health Departments are diverting funds for medical supplies, maintenance and other operating costs to meet medical ...

For years, concerned health experts have been calling for South African children to be universally vaccinated against ...

American researchers have recommended temporarily cutting back on the sweet stuff during antibiotic treatment, saying that ...

Women consistently experience more pain than men across 11 parts of the body, according to a global study spanning 118 countries, which also reported that across the sexes, the sharpest increases in ...

The US Government agency charged with combating disease outbreaks abroad is shrinking as Donald Trump’s “America First” approach to foreign policy takes hold, with concerned experts warning of the ...

Three people have received an innovative treatment designed to rejuvenate vision cells – which could, say the scientists, be just the beginning and offer hope for the reprogramming of other, different ...

China has announced its candidate nomination to lead the World Health Organisation and succeed current DG Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who reaches the end of his second five-year term – the maximum – ...

The lack of consequence management in the National Department of Health for its complete lack of movement on its audit outcome for more than 10 years has been slammed by Parliament’s Portfolio ...

Although surgical removal of the larynx can improve the survival odds for someone with advanced cancer of the voice box, the huge cost is their losing the ability to speak. Now, however, a skilled ENT ...

Updated guidelines from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (ACOG) recommending the removal of fallopian tubes to reduce ovarian cancer risk, are grounded in data showing most ...

South Africa has a twice-yearly HIV prevention jab that’s almost 100% effective. But experience with HIV prevention pills shows that making medicine free isn’t enough to get people to use it. Refiloe ...

The University of Southern Denmark has given the green light to the controversial $1.6m CDC-funded study in Guinea-Bissau that plans to offer life-saving hepatitis B vaccines to only half of enrolled ...