Recently, one of the biggest multiplayer events in the southern hemisphere attracted thousands of gaming geeks. But only one clan emerged victorious.
Doctors got a taste of reality TV on Friday morning during the opening session of a SA Medical Association conference on the NHI.
If a person commits a crime and is later granted amnesty for his or her actions, does this mean the crime never happened?
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/ 30 September 2010
It’s been eight years since SA’s biggest gaming expo started and rAge — the Really Awesome Gaming Expo — is going from strength to strength.
Public healthcare needs to be jacked up before an
NHI can be implemented, experts warn
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/ 17 September 2010
Cosatu-affiliated union Popcru on Friday took exception to an <i>M&G</i> article about a fake Facebook profile of Cosatu spokesperson Patrick Craven.
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/ 15 September 2010
The proposed Protection of Information Bill may well come back to haunt the state further down the line, civil society organisations have warned.
The worst of the flooding may be over but prospects are bleak in Pakistan, where disease and the coming winter threaten to intensify the crisis.
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/ 10 September 2010
As it stands, South Africa spends just more than 8% of GDP on healthcare, more than any other country on the continent.
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/ 7 September 2010
Research from UCT’s Health Economics Unit has found that spending on the NHI would roughly match what is currently spent on healthcare.
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/ 7 September 2010
<i>Beyond the Billboards – the loveLife Story</i> details the challenges and successes of the first 10 years of the national HIV prevention programme.
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/ 6 September 2010
The vuvuzela may have made it into the <i>Oxford Dictionary</i>, but you may find little use for it beyond the football stadium.
Experts say breastfeeding and skin-to-skin contact can reduce infection in preterm babies.
At Kalafong’s Kangaroo Mother Care unit, mothers and not nurses are the primary caregivers.
Government’s failure to provide contingency plans for chronically ill patients during the strike could have "disastrous individual consequences".
The unsung heroes of the early childhood development sector are often middle-aged black women who still remain largely unsupported by the government.
It is illegal for them to strike but they know the weight of numbers is on their side.
<b>Faranaaz Parker</b> speaks to Firoz Cachalia, who made the front page in 1985.
A small NGO is asking the health department why these contraceptives for women aren’t as readily
available as their male equivalent.
Panic attacks are difficult to diagnose but can be cured using cognitive behavioural therapy.
Revolutionary new vaginal treatment could avert 800 000 Aids deaths over the next 20 years.
Standing ovations for microbicide gel team as
South Africa’s Aids about-turn is fêted.
The trial was designed to test for safety and researchers did not expect to see a significant response.
The health minister wants to change perceptions
about South Africa to encourage people to offer to
help fight the HIV/Aids pandemic.
LeboM quells rumours about his non-performance as part of the consortium in charge of producing the opening and closing ceremonies for the World Cup.
There are more than 1 000 private Pilates instructors in South Africa, and that doesn’t even count those teaching at the major gyms.
The NIA is monitoring the possibility that a fresh wave of xenophobic violence will hit South Africa after the World Cup.
Promising results of Thai trial could breathe new life into South African research.
Several hundred healthcare workers in KwaZulu-Natal have been treated.
A study on poverty and disability has revealed that only 39% of disabled people in Johannesburg’s eight poorest wards are receiving disability grants.
Experts have warned that it would be a "serious mistake" to dismiss swine flu because of the relatively low impact it had last year.
Anglo Coal shows how new HIV infections can be cut by half and how a management system can revolutionise the fight against the virus.