South Africa's biggest HIV drug tender has been set aside by the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria), which found that the ...

While the public system suffers from too few resources, private doctors often give patients more medication than is safe, ...

Four actuaries from Medscheme, one of the country’s largest medical scheme administrators, presented evidence at the Actuarial Society of South Africa (ASSA) convention in Cape Town recently on the ...

A disease normally only ever found in animals has been detected in humans for the first time, with the first known case of the Shamonda virus (Shav) being identified in a French patient who died in ...

Pollution has long been indirectly linked with dementia, and scientists are now wondering whether it could be physically reshaping the brain, reports The Washington Post. Last year, startled ...

Basic nursing failures, including missed warning signs, poor monitoring and unqualified staff in intensive care are behind catastrophic patient harm and the claims that follow. That was the conference ...

The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has given the green light to bepirovirsen (Hibsago) from GSK as a potential functional cure for adults with chronic hepatitis B – but with no cirrhosis – who ...

A promising new treatment for knee arthritis may provide lasting relief for people struggling with osteoarthritis, and offer a potential alternative to joint replacement surgery by using tiny, ...

A recent study of 10 different dietary patterns by DZNE (the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases), has found that healthy eating, generally, is associated with slower biological ageing – and ...

Dr Shivani Chirkut, medico-legal consultant, and Christine Groenewald, operational team lead at Medical Protection, discuss the importance of ensuring the patient’s voice remains heard when family and ...

Ending the practice of immunising all newborns against hepatitis B, as Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has recommended, would sharply increase the number of chronic infections and put more than ...

Cancer drug prices are to be drastically reduced in India after a retired bank clerk took her case to the Supreme Court, reports The Guardian. She died in September 2022, while her case was still ...