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 ...

Constantly rising and increasingly unaffordable medical aid hikes are pushing consumers to the limit, and the Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF) has said households cannot indefinitely keep absorbing ...

In a long-awaited judgment handed down last Friday, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has interdicted the Road Accident Fund (RAF) from making any deductions from compensation paid to claimants on the ...

Local business leaders and the HPCSA have urged doctors and practices to tighten measures to avoid illegal access to their prescription and ‘sick note’ pads, and for employees to be on guard when ...

South Africa has recorded another death in a lab-confirmed diphtheria case, according to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases’ latest surveillance update, which says the Western Cape ...

Unchlorinated water supplied by Tshwane’s Bronkhorstspruit Water Treatment Works for three weeks resulted in at least 408 people, mostly toddlers under four, contracting gastrointestinal infections, ...

Updated minimum standards and rules regarding the customisation of medicines, including GLP-1 treatments for diabetes and weight loss, can be expected in South Africa next year, but local health ...

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 ...

Critical issues with the cooling systems at the Rob Ferreira Hospital in Mpumalanga are resulting in surgical postponements and unnecessary delays in theatre procedures, reports The Citizen. The ...

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 ...

The CSIR’s brand new research facility in Pretoria, launched last week, aims to reduce the country’s massive reliance on international supplies of active pharmaceutical ingredients, the importation of ...

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 ...