In the first reported case of the autoinflammatory VEXAS syndrome in South Africa, J Damelin, J Jacobson, C Bam, L Pillay and ...
Women who accidentally fall pregnant while taking a GLP-1 treatment for diabetes or weight loss are not at increased risk of ...
A breast cancer diagnosis and the illnesses that followed transformed Kwanele Asante into one of Africa’s most prominent ...
This week on Why Did I Become A Doctor?, in partnership with MedicalBrief, Dr Suhayl Essa talks medicine, comedy, burnout, ...
Some patients’ accounts raise tantalising questions about what happens inside a brain afflicted by dementia and whether ...
Women with peripheral artery disease are less likely than men to receive a timely diagnosis or recommended care, which can further jeopardise cardiovascular health, warn experts in The Washington Post ...
Under a new health accountability framework endorsed by the 81st UN General Assembly (UNGA) last month in New York, African governments have committed to subjecting their progress on maternal and ...
While some desperate patients are turning to veterinarians for their epilepsy medicines as the national medicine shortage crisis reaches alarming levels, it turns out the Health Department has been ...
Scientists have found that millions of new cancer cases may be caused by treatable or preventable infections, suggesting the cancer could have been avoided altogether, reports CNN. That’s according to ...
In efforts to sustain the use of GLP-1 drugs by its members – most of whom stop claiming for the treatment within six months – Discovery’s rewards scheme Vitality is stepping up its support, saying ...
It isn’t always easy to know what to believe when it comes to cancer. In the Daily Maverick and Spotlight special series on cancer, Biénne Huisman asks whether cases are on the increase in South ...
If R182m meant for an already buckling health system can be poured into PR with so few checks, imagine the risks when the NHI becomes the country’s single, centralised purchaser of healthcare, writes ...