Doctors can get patients to take better care of themselves by setting a good, healthy example.
Instead of the care she sought, a vulnerable patient found further distress in a PE hospital.
Despite the risks, many South Africans continue to buy black market aphrodisiacs over the internet.
Communities are bringing HIV monitoring and dispensing out of the clinics and into their homes.
South Africans consume between 7.8 and 9.5g of salt per day, exceeding the World Health Organisation’s one teaspoon recommendation per day.
The health minister says the media portrays the department as failing to provide drugs for patients, but supply is also subject to business decisions.
Increasing access to health services will prevent many mothers and newborn babies from dying.
In a binge-drinking community parents often give their children alcohol, or they get it in the womb.
When Demelza Bush was a little girl, she knew she wasn’t. And they weren’t a boy either.
SA’s disability allowance eases the financial and emotional burden of people with tuberculosis.
A private-public partnership is gaining ground in the fight against the disease in the city’s slums.
Free State Health MEC Benny Malakoane has accused the M&G of sensationalist reporting, but warned that his department will run out of money this year.
Without good lighting, plants and privacy, the open-plan office can become a threat to the wellbeing of the people working there.
Citing a conflict of interests and an inability to be impartial, "Dr Death" wants the committee conducting the inquiry into his conduct to step down.
Workers afflicted with silicosis and/or TB launch historic class action lawsuit for compensation.
Researchers have identified some of the reasons obese women struggle to conceive, and warn that their babies are likely to become overweight.
Can the banting diet cure binge-eating disorder? Mia Malan follows one person’s journey.
The disease is outfoxing prevention efforts, thanks in part to vaccination myths.
Two emerging technologies look promising, but top oncology researchers are concerned about dangers seen during clinical trials.
After 14 years of delays, the Health Professions Council should have seen what was coming in the Wouter Basson case.
Wouter Basson’s lawyers have called for the recusal of an HPCSA committee over suspected involvement in a petition to strike him off the medical roll.
The Aids council’s programme is a "big step in the right direction", but abuse by police still needs to be tackled, says an HIV specialist.
While South African life expectancy dropped between 1990 and 2013, the are signs of hope again.
Deputy Minister of Correctional Services Thabang Makwetla claims that prisoners in SA have access to better healthcare. Africa Check investigates.
Twenty years after the genocide, Rwanda’s health system is showing drastic improvements.
A move to ban Wouter Basson from medicine has been met with a tongue-lashing from his lawyer.
Refugees run the border crossing gauntlet of lions, rivers, rape and theft hoping for a better life.
If the health minister has his way, vaping will soon be regulated like regular smoking because, he says, Big Tobacco is complicit in its rise.
Primary healthcare barely exists outside our urban centres, and apartheid-ordained inequality is stark.
Medical malpractice litigation is preventing young doctors from entering high-risk fields of medicine.
A French team of scientists have proposed a process called "endogenisation", believed to have neutralised other viruses in humans in the past.
Experts believe Ginkgo biloba, a natural product used in vitamin supplements, may be harmful if taken together with HIV medication.