Asymptomatic patients and poor sanitary conditions increase the risk of cholera spreading beyond Zimbabwe, writes Belinda Beresford
The tie between health and wealth has held true for most of the world, and for as long as there appear to have been economists to notice it.
One of the most lethal viruses known to science has made its appearance in Africa, but naming it has been held up by political sensitivities.
Almost half of SA’s adults are too fat. The health risks are huge: heart-related illness, often triggered by obesity, is the second-biggest killer.
Legislation aimed at stabilising medical schemes has run into heavy flak, reports Belinda Beresford.
The government medical scheme has continued to siphon new members, driving the first noteworthy increase in the number of medical aid beneficiaries.
Fasting may be good for your soul, but an expert says it may not be so good for your waistline.
World Health report says non-communicable diseases are the ‘leading threats to human health’. Belinda Beresford reports.
Renaissance Medical Scheme was placed under curatorship last week after a report showed it is insolvent and more than R30million in the red. The industry regulatory authority,…
A trumpeter, a combat training specialist and a personnel clerk took on the South African National Defence Force in court last week over the military’s policy on HIV-positive…
The battle for control of the R70-billion private healthcare industry has been ratcheted up as the regulator of medical schemes turns to the Constitutional Court to define its…
South Africa’s inadequate public sector anti-HIV treatment has been highlighted again this week with the release of expert guidelines on antiretroviral therapy in the region. The…
A reticent, opaque man who seldom reveals what he is thinking or feeling is how author Jonny Steinberg describes the central character in his latest book, <i>Three-Letter Plague:…
Most South Africans say they don’t drink — about half the men and almost 80% of women claim to be abstainers.
Within half an hour of having a drink, alcohol molecules spread into all tissues of a human body.
Thousands of South African nurses are doing it for themselves when it comes to extending their skills and training — with the aid of locally developed distance learning courses.…
One in five of the tens of thousands of young children who die each year in South Africa probably suffocate to death, drowning from pus-filled lungs as a result of pneumonia. Yet…
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel highlighted under-capacity in the struggling healthcare system in this week’s budget. His department is expecting the number of people who will…
Prediction is very difficult, especially of the future, said Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr. His quote is particularly appropriate looking at the future impact of…
Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has been attacked for her continued anti-smoking focus when the Aids campaign is in disarray. But recent research has confirmed the…
