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, ...

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 ...

A small trial has found that injecting saline around the trapped nerve could ease symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A meta-analysis spanning participants across diverse populations from 18 countries has suggested women develop dementia at ...

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 ...