Some people reach 100 without developing the diseases that kill most of us. Whether they pass that resistance to their ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

A small, preliminary single-arm clinical study found that after eight weeks of treatment, cognitive function score almost doubled in breast cancer survivors who were treated with the supplement ...

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 ...

Unpaid provincial Health Department accounts, regulatory disputes with SAHPRA, and manufacturing pressures are among the reported causes of a widespread medicine shortage in South Africa – this ...

After an unannounced visit to two hospitals in the Eastern Cape, an irate Public Protector Advocate Kholeka Gcaleka said the public health sector was in dire need of renewal, and that no progress had ...