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The HPCSA failed to rein in medical aid schemes — now it’s up to the Competition Commission

A grassroots Ugandan health initiative has significantly reduced maternal deaths.

Clinics dedicated to young people are ideal but the poor nation struggles to provide at least a basic service for those who can't access them.

With proper medication, healthy living and a positive outlook, patients can lead good lives.

Boitumelo Semete-Makokotlela leads the country’s medicines regulator, the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra), a public entity few people knew about until the COVID-19 pandemic hit. COVID triggered a noisy scramble for vaccines, tests and treatments that needed to be approved — often embroiled in politics.

Silicosis might appear only 15 years after exposure to gold ore dust, long after they have gone home. Heidi Swart reports.

Diabetic patients who aren't treated properly risk having the smallest cut lead to an amputated limb.

You made it through the year. Kick back, relax and take a read through the 2018 that was.

About 15 years after their son died while illegally detained at a deportation centre outside Johannesburg, this family still hasn't found his grave.

Science is learning more about your vagina. So should you.

In the hospitals of 1980s South Africa, Naeemah Abrahams saw how often women showed up battered and bruised, a phenomenon her colleagues didn’t make much of. Three decades later, she’s one of the researchers turning the tide on gender-based violence.

Inside the Kenyan village that began as a refuge for survivors of sexual violence.

Goodman Makanda survived the most drug-resistant form of tuberculosis that scientists know of, but he lost a lung to the disease in the process. Now, he says he would “rather die” than take handfuls of TB medicine again.

Being isolated for days on end was too much for this student, locked up alone in her dormitory room in Wuhan, China. Her friends haven’t seen her since the day she lost it, and that was weeks ago.

Walking on the road in Accra can be dangerous, say researchers. Using a cellphone while doing so can up the chance for an accident even more. Here’s what a study found should be done to keep pedestrians safe.

A pill dispenser with an electronic cap monitors daily adherence to a regimen that may curb HIV among sex workers – and in broader society.