Health professionals are finding the state’s planned guidelines for fees a bitter pill to swallow.
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/ 14 February 2013
Mia Malan speaks to the health minister and others in the healthcare sector about the guideline tariffs.
Private doctors have accused the health minister and the Health Professions Council of South Africa of a having a "hidden agenda"
Cervical cancer is caused by a very common virus, but it is easy to detect and there is a vaccination for it, writes Mia Malan
A study published in the latest edition of a leading medical journal explains why the survival rate of HIV-positive women is higher than that of men.
The five steps below could reduce deaths from cancer in South Africa, according to the Cancer Association’s head of research, Dr Carl Albrecht.
Rural hospitals are struggling across South Africa – that they function at all is too often not thanks to the state, but the work of Good Samaritans.
Mia Malan speaks to Dr Carl Albrecht, head of research at the Cancer Association of South Africa, to gauge the state of the disease locally.
A new report says men are able to plan their sex lives better than women and the day of the week on which the fewest people have sex is Tuesday.
Pressure’s mounting on SA’s Medicines Control Council to register the use of Truvada by the HIV-negative to lower chances of being infected with HIV.