A new therapy – a combination of drugs made from the artemisinin plant with older medicines – could transform the fight against malaria.
McCord Hospital in Durban will be sold to the government in a deal that will be concluded next year.
Unless the state’s plan to curb maternal deaths is wholly implemented, it won’t make a dent.
Eastern Cape royals are campaigning to use medical circumcision in traditional rituals.
Nehawu will apply for an emergency interdict to stop McCord Hospital’s board from closing down the facility.
Hospitals and clinics are to be demolished and rebuilt to reboot the Eastern Cape’s "broken" health system.
Experts say the vast sum spent by Sylvia Lucas on unhealthy food is indicative of a big fat problem.
Nurses and doctors are ‘forced’ to treat non-residents, but such care is too often perilous.
Female condoms have sensualised sexual health thanks to the increased tactility of new materials.
Advocacy groups are due to march to the Eastern Cape’s health MEC as part of a campaign against a "crisis" in health care access in the province.