The tools to fight the malaria may have improved, but only sustained efforts will totally eliminate it, not just intermittent interventions.
Because of the public’s ignorance, Bipolar Disorder often ruins the careers of talented professional people.
Simple precautions can reduce carcinogens in the kitchen and on the food table, writes <b>Mia Malan</b>.
Chronic insomniacs are far better off treating their condition through cognitive behaviour therapy than with pills, new research suggests.
Tropical diseases such as malaria could be wiped out as scientists figure out how to render mosquitoes sterile.
But experts warn that drugs alone will not win it, after the pharmaceutical giants agree to work together on an ambitious project.
Parental duties must not be done in anger and corporal punishment is therefore not justified
Exclusively breastfed babies are less likely to become obese adults, research has shown.
The kidnapping of young girls ignores the ‘niceties’ of a cultural practice.
Mia Malan describes the arduous trek an Eastern Cape woman had to undertake to get medical attention for her sick grandson.
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/ 7 November 2011
If you have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, there are a number of things you can do to manage so that you can live as normal a life as possible.
A controversial plastic additive is said to affect foetuses and increase the risk of breast cancer.
Stroke recovery will be the topic of Bonitas House Call on November 5 at 9am on SABC2.
Universal healthcare schemes traditionally have been met with fierce opposition.
Alzheimer’s disease is not a natural part of growing old.
Panic attacks are often mistaken for heart attacks, and even though they can’t kill you they are more debilitating, and common, than you might think.
With the severe effects of the habit on the unborn child now widely known, why do pregnant mothers refuse to give up?
The murder of an Mpumalanga doctor on duty has exposed the lax security at public hospitals.
New research shows that the brain actively works to repair itself after traumatic injury, but subsequent impact can compound the damage.
Universal access to antiretroviral therapy could have saved more than 4,37-million children in Africa from becoming orphans.
The opportunity exists for South Africa to develop its own health promotion foundation, built on the examples from across the world.
The alcohol industry makes a substantial contribution to South Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP).
"As a country we spend 8,7% of our GDP on health in both the public and private sectors, yet we have little to show…"
One of the goals of the National Nursing Summit is to encourage research on nursing by nurses.
Research has shown that speaking two languages improves brain performance.
New research brings hope for less aggressive and invasive ways of treating breast cancer in patients.
Medical experts have sounded the alarm over the soaring rates of labiaplasty.
The number of young people taking drugs has fallen by 30% in 15 years. Is the drop down to quality, bad celebrity PR or price?
The award of the Nobel prize, when it came in October 2010, was long overdue.
To Patrick Cockburn, it’s an illness that has eaten away at his oldest child. To Henry Cockburn, it has been an inspiration.
Breast or bottle is one of the most intimate and essential decisions a new parent has to make.