Decrypting the nutritional label on your favourite packaged food products might get easier sometime soon. But that doesn’t mean you’re going to like what it’s going to say.

From August, clinics countrywide will issue patients who are doing well on their ARVs, a six-month supply, twice a year. 6MMD is widespread in Africa and started in the Western Cape last year. How ...

The health department has R622-million extra to prop up South Africa’s HIV treatment programme in the wake of foreign aid ...

Congress removed from a list of programmes from which the Trump administration wants to cut funds, doesn’t cancel the cuts to ...

In today’s newsletter, Tanya Pampalone talks death, dying and medical school. Sign up for our newsletter today. COMMENT There is an old joke about someone collapsing on an aeroplane mid-flight. The ...

SA has accepted an offer of just over R520-million from the Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria to buy the twice-a-year ...

Misinformation fuelled by US health czar Robert Kennedy Jr is creating a dangerous — and growing — lack of trust in vaccines. Here’s why South Africa’s public health experts are scared.

Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects between 5% and 7% of schoolgoing children. But because doctors can only prescribe treatment for a month at a time, many kids in South Africa ...

The National Health Insurance (NHI), for which membership will be compulsory, is a funding scheme that aims to address healthcare inequity in South Africa. The scheme will do this by creating a fund ...