General anaesthetic is supposed to make surgery painless. Now there’s evidence that one person in 20 may be awake when doctors think they’re under.
Life-saving medicines are out of reach for many patients but a World Health Organisation meeting held in Johannesburg this week could change that.
Having banned female genital cutting, his ousting may have been good for democracy but bad for women’s bodies.
When this toddler died at Leratong Hospital, his body disappeared. Here’s what happened when his parents went back there more than a decade later.
If allegations prove true, it may mean that corruption at the regulator enabled unqualified people to masquerade as doctors and nurses.
There’s something distinctly cynical about Israel’stargeting of people’s legs in Palestine’s march for freedom.
Inside the Kenyan village that began as a refuge for survivors of sexual violence.
Since the country’s national rollout, less than a quarter of people who’ve started taking PrEP are young women — despite high HIV rates among them.
Policy bans aid going to foreign groups that support abortion rights as secretary of state Pompeo says: ‘This is decent and right’
One in four people carry this potentially deadly bug? Now a new shorter treatment can prevent it from making you sick.