In his third year at Wits, Dr Hussein Seedat says a lecturer told him he wasn't meant to be a dentist. By then he had already been before the exclusions committee twice. This time he wasn't excluded, ...

Millions of people use cannabis as a form of sleep aid, but despite the widespread view that it can help you get a good night’s rest, the evidence is starting to suggest otherwise – with scientists ...

In South Africa, tuberculosis is mainly diagnosed and treated in the public healthcare system. On paper, the private sector should also be able to deal with it, but in reality, TB care in this sector ...

Prescription is frequently raised as a defence in medical negligence litigation, particularly where a patient experiences an adverse outcome or ongoing complications but only seeks legal advice ...

Global experts have warned that today’s decisions involving health, finance, climate, defence and security will determine how many years of good health future generations gain – or lose – to ...

Deputy Department of Health DG Nicholas Crisp appeared before Parliament last week to account for the allegations in an investigation published on 27 September on the contentious communications tender ...

The Nigerian health ministry said a woman had been diagnosed with Ebola in the capital, Abuja, after travelling from Uganda, reports Sky News. This is the first case during the current outbreak as the ...

Big Pharma in South Africa and the US is calling for urgent crackdown on illegal medicines, especially unregulated obesity drugs like retatrudite, which is being linked to at least two deaths overseas ...

Relentless efforts by an organised network of serial thieves to steal critical equipment from Free State hospitals is forcing the already strained facilties to outlay hundreds of thousands of rands in ...

Judicial police in Guinea-Bissau seized doses of the hepatitis B vaccine from the offices of the controversial researchers linked to a proposed clinical trial – the Bandim Health Project – that would ...

A neurosurgeon from Pretoria who has spent six years claiming he was unlawfully arrested en-route to the hospital to prepare for surgery during the Covid-19 lockdown has lost his case and been ordered ...

Africa urgently needs investment in cancer research, diagnosis and prevention, says Nigeria’s Dr Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu, President-elect of the Union for International Cancer (UICC), who says just ...