Dr Liezl du Plessis was the Northern Cape’s first and only paediatric oncologist. But after eight years of treating children and teenagers at the Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Hospital in Kimberley, as ...
Twenty of this year’s more than two dozen confirmed mpox cases came after August, concentrated mostly within the Western Cape. Writing for Spotlight, Elri Voigt looks at how the virus has changed and ...
Living through a disaster like a flood led to mental health issues in about a quarter of people, found a recent study across four African countries. But the psychological fallout is often not ...
Conversations around health progress in Africa usually focus on lives saved, and rightly so. Across the continent, people are living longer than they did a generation ago. Advances in prevention, ...
Many people who end up in doctors’ rooms, clinics and hospitals are there because they are in pain. But pain management is ...
The US Food and Drug Administration is proposing changes to nutrient requirements for infant formula – the first in almost ...
New medicine applications that were used to legally prescribe medical cannabis are no longer being approved by the South ...
Who gets to make decisions about an intersex child’s body? And how do we protect children from the stigma and harmful practices flowing from society’s expectations of what male and female bodies ...
Patients are seeking medical advice on Instagram and TikTok, where it’s hard to tell fact from fiction, yet it seems doctors are divided on whether medical professionals should be joining the ...
Researchers who found alarming levels of child abuse in a six-year study at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, have called for greater awareness from healthcare workers and others to ...
Kratom, an Asian herbal supplement sought by many people seeking relief from addiction to prescription opioids and alcohol, is increasingly being pitched as a wellness product that purports to raise ...
Medical aid members have been reminded not to miss their schemes’ deadlines to change benefit options for 2027, this as most of them announce increases that are almost double the recommendations from ...
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