Health
SA health regulators crack down on compounded weight-loss drugs as pharmacy...
Health regulators have issued a warning to pharmacies not to operate as small-scale manufacturers as the country’s regulations regarding the customisation of medications, including...
Nozipho Dlamini | I never thought cancer would happen to me,...
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. For me, it is not simply another month on the health calendar. It is personal.
Four years ago, my...
Kenya confirms first Ebola case after man who travelled from Congo...
Kenya confirmed its first Ebola case on Tuesday after a Kenyan citizen who had travelled from Democratic Republic of Congo died in Nairobi. Kenya is the fourth country…
Young women take charge as HIV prevention programme doubles PrEP uptake
Twenty years ago, an HIV-positive diagnosis was widely feared as a death sentence. Today, medicine has transformed that prognosis while prevention is increasingly putting...
Moving target: Congo’s North Kivu province becomes new Ebola hotspot
By Gradel Muyisa Mumbere and Clement Bonnerot BUTEMBO, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sept 25 (Reuters) - All 29 beds were full this week at the Kitatumba Ebola treatment…
Women are living longer, but chronic disease taking deadly toll
The latest mortality data from Statistics South Africa tells two distinct stories about mortality in South Africa. Women are living longer than men but...
Surgeons use AI assistance to remove brain tumour in world first
In a global first, a man in the UK has undergone AI-assisted brain surgery. Surgeons at University College London Hospital used live artificial intelligence...
WHO says Ebola outbreak in Uganda is over, as cases rise...
The outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola in Uganda is over but it is not under control in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, a World Health
Watch: Chinese doctors mark their days in Africa
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NAIROBI: For three years, Seif Amour Rajab could barely open his mouth.
Seif was 16 when he fell from a mango tree and fractured his...
From barefoot to high-tech: How Chinese doctors shaped a healthier nation
BEIJING: Half a century ago, a barefoot doctor in rural China might have carried little more than a bag of basic medicines, a few...
