Some people reach 100 without developing the diseases that kill most of us. Whether they pass that resistance to their ...

South Africa's biggest HIV drug tender has been set aside by the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria), which found that the ...

While the public system suffers from too few resources, private doctors often give patients more medication than is safe, ...

Four actuaries from Medscheme, one of the country’s largest medical scheme administrators, presented evidence at the Actuarial Society of South Africa (ASSA) convention in Cape Town recently on the ...

A recent study of 10 different dietary patterns by DZNE (the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases), has found that healthy eating, generally, is associated with slower biological ageing – and ...

A promising new treatment for knee arthritis may provide lasting relief for people struggling with osteoarthritis, and offer a potential alternative to joint replacement surgery by using tiny, ...

Dr Shivani Chirkut, medico-legal consultant, and Christine Groenewald, operational team lead at Medical Protection, discuss the importance of ensuring the patient’s voice remains heard when family and ...

Ending the practice of immunising all newborns against hepatitis B, as Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has recommended, would sharply increase the number of chronic infections and put more than ...

Pollution has long been indirectly linked with dementia, and scientists are now wondering whether it could be physically reshaping the brain, reports The Washington Post. Last year, startled ...

A small, preliminary single-arm clinical study found that after eight weeks of treatment, cognitive function score almost doubled in breast cancer survivors who were treated with the supplement ...

A disease normally only ever found in animals has been detected in humans for the first time, with the first known case of the Shamonda virus (Shav) being identified in a French patient who died in ...

Shortages of critical medicines and endless queues at clinics around the country are frustrating outpatients, whose anger is compounded by fear of having to do without vital medication, and safety ...