Health

The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has given the Eastern Cape Health Department 14 days to submit detailed responses to 27 complaints communities...

A study about weight loss medications that was published in the British Medical Journal in January didn’t seem like good news. Oxford researchers looked at...

Many South Africans live carefully curated lives. Private schools. Medical aid. Gated estates. Armed response. If the public system fails, the thinking goes, we...

When the Stars of Innovation, the US-Kenya AI Challenge, announced its finalists, for a breathless second, the room stopped being a conference hall and...

The Eastern Cape ushered in the New Year with both new life and renewed hope, as 38 babies were born across the province by...

Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has issued a stark warning, describing the relentless rise in teenage pregnancies as a critical issue demanding urgent national...

This Christmas, the most precious gifts didn't come wrapped under a tree—they arrived in delivery rooms across the nation. In a cheerful surge of new...

In South Africa, a silent crisis forces one in three girls to miss up to a week of school each month. The cause of...

When healthcare engineer Lisa Mutheu joined the East Africa Biodesign fellowship, she anticipated a year of clinical rotations, design challenges, and long hours spent...

Let me be clear upfront. I am not a tobacco policy person, nor am I a tobacco economics person. I am a pulmonologist who...