Heart disease, cancer and diabetes are rising killers
Heart disease, cancer, diabetes and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are steadily killing more and more South Africans, says a new report released yesterday.
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Braamfischerville elderly plead for mobile clinic
About 46 000 people may call Soweto’s Braamfischerville community home but the area still lacks a health facility, leading residents to ask for mobile clinics.
More than 100 activists, community health workers arrested
More than 100 community health workers and members of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) have been arrested and one man allegedly assaulted by police in Bloemfontein following what TAC says was a peaceful protest outside.
Report: Department of Health Annual Performance Plan
This 100-page report describes the Department of Health's key performance indicators, strategic objectives and annual targets for 2011/12 to 2013/14.
New research could debunk banting diet
Celebrity Professor Tim Noakes popular low-carbohydrate “banting” diet is neither healthier nor better for dropping kilos than a balanced weight-loss diet, according to a Stellenbosch University (SU) study released yesterday.
Report: Public Protector’s investigation into the Gauteng Department of Health
Public Protector Adv. Thuli Madonsela recently released the outcomes of an investigation into the Gauteng Department of Health.
Drug abuse fuelling gender-based violence in Soweto
Dobsonville youth recently marched against the drug abuse that social workers say is fuelling gender-based violence (GBV) in the Soweto neighbourhood.
Cowboys and catheters
Rural health can get rough. Making the cut as a doctor may be equal parts experience, ingenuity - and knowing when to call a friend when you’re out there on your own.
Woolworths employees put a smile on kids’ faces
Employees at Musina’s Woolworths are going the extra mile to put a smile on children’s faces as part of a fundraising campaign for Operation Smile South Africa.
Inheriting HIV: A bitter pill to swallow
Ten years after South Africa began providing free HIV treatment, a generation of children born with HIV continues to come of age with the virus. One young Mpumalanga man shares his story.
Report: Global Fund targets in South African prisons
Released by the TB non-profit the Aurum Institute, this document outlines organisations receiving international funding to address TB in prisons as well as goals and timelines.
Family suffers double blow of cervical cancer
Months after OurHealth profiled 4-year-old Masego Seemise’s battle with eczema, the Seemise family of Hammanskraal has been dealt another blow after grandmother Decia’s diagnosis of cervical cancer.
Motsoaledi: Maternal, child focus remains post-MDGs
South African Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi says three issues should top the post Millennium Development Goal (MDG) agenda.
Boost for XDR-TB patients as cheaper pills allowed
The Medicines Control Council (MCC) has granted humanitarian group Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) access to a cheaper drug to treat extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB).
Women are ‘collateral damage’ in South Sudan war
Health-e News Managing Editor Kerry Cullinan writes on HIV, women and media in war-torn South Sudan.