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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

South Africa introduced the vaccination for human papillomavirus (HPV) in public schools in 2014, offering the jab to grade 4 girls aged nine and older. Uptake was high from the start, with about 87% ...

For the first time since 2014, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has updated its guidelines for the treatment of symptoms associated with menopause, reports NPR. ACOG is now ...

Menopause has long been thought of as a terminal moment for the female reproductive system, when ovaries stop releasing eggs and presumably call it a day, but researchers suggest they actually remain ...

Recent alarming research shows that South Africa’s progress in tackling the Aids and HIV crisis has stalled in one of its most populous provinces, reports The Telegraph. The number of new cases of the ...

An unusual incentive scheme is being trialled by the Western Cape Department of Health in which participants are rewarded for healthy choices like immunising their children or taking up regular ...