Resource-lean, short of professionals and prone to food crises, Malawi doesn’t look like a candidate for any of the millennium development goals.
Health campaigners want to close a dump in Nairobi that spreads disease, but thousands of scavengers rely on it for survival.
The times of plenty funding for the fight against HIV are over, and the lean years come at a time when the need for funding is rising.
Until politics takes a back seat, people will continue to die in the province’s hospitals.
In some people, intense emotion or a sudden shock can cause the heart to malfunction.
For the first time an Aids vaccine in our lifetime is possible, but scientists need money and support to make it work.
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.
Every day, peopledie or have serious long-term health problems because of continued failure to provide access to effective acute and emergency care.
A physiotherapist is pioneering research on an overlooked issue: the effect on mind and body.
Until all women are safe and have access to health services, Women’s Month will mean nothing, writes Marion Stevens.
One in 10 Britons regularly take a drug to help them to sleep. But is it time to stop popping zopiclone, temazepam and other tablets?
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.
Sport has helped many people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder to focus and build their self-esteem, writes Patrick Barkham.
A study has shown that a ban on smoking in restaurants does not affect business negatively.
Anyone who has visited the Olympic Park will not have missed the ubiquitous branding of two of its sponsors, McDonald’s and Coca-Cola.
Protecting athletes’ sexual health at the Olympics requires many years of planning. There are pool tables to distract them, for example.
The massive loss of life in last year’s tsunami disaster in Japan has trimmed the average life expectancy of the country’s women.
Apart from a medical officer, the victims are all from a single family, according to reports.
Kinesio Tex has the makings of a fad, but some sportsmen and women swear by it. Patrick Barkham reports
The threat of Aids has convinced a Zambian clansman, Jonathan Mumena, to do what is safest for his people. Mia Malan reports.
Late onset (juvenile or adult) Pompe disease can be as early as the first decade of childhood or as late as the sixth decade of adulthood.
Conditions in KwaZulu-Natal are allegedly so bad that some qualified staff can no longer take it, writes Fatima Asmal-Motala.
It is a beacon of hope, yet the state’s cystic fibrosis unit at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital might be closed.
Some believe that proper palliative care goes a long way towards countering arguments for euthanasia, writes Thalia Randall.
Professionals trained in traditional methods are rescuing patients abandoned by budget cuts, writes Nellie Bowles.
Few health professionals or administrators have the broad experience or the specialist knowledge of Dr Maphata Norman Mabasa.
A lack of basic services will leave an already crippled system unable to cope with the additional red tape.
The popularity of saniters has as much to do with health as fashion and the jury is out over their efficacy, writes Laura Barton.
Other than certain individuals such as Elton John and Wayne Rooney most men accept hair loss with a sense of resignation.
Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi responds to Garth Zietsman’s article on his address at the National Editors’ Forum in Cape Town.