Routine breast cancer screening results in a reduced risk of dying from breast cancer but also results in overdiagnosis, according to an independent panel of experts reporting in The Lancet.

Bans on smoking in public places have reduced hospitalisations for heart attacks, strokes and asthma. This is according to a new study published in the journal Circulation.

Women smokers who quit before the age of 30, can recover and avoid almost all of the increased risk of dying, according to the largest-ever study of the hazards of smoking.

Many smartphone applications are promoting smoking. This is according to a new study published by the journal Tobacco Control.

A response to the HI-Virus in two HIV positive women, which enabled them to make potent antibodies that would kill most of the HIV types from around the world, has provided South African reseachers with potential clues for the development of an AIDS vaccine.

MSF's Malaria prevention pilot projects in Mali and Chad are showing dramatic, promising results with malaria cases and hospitalisations plummeting.

CAPE TOWN. '€“ South African children have equal rights under the Constitution, but the worlds into which they are born and their opportunities in life are very unequal. This was the message Katharine Hall, senior researcher at the Children'€™s Institute (CI) at the University of Cape Town shared yesterday at the launched the South African Child Gauge 2012, an annual review on the state of South Africa's children.

MEDIA RELEASE: An estimated 20 million people are alive today as a direct result of tuberculosis (TB) care and control, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Tuberculosis Report 2012.

This video spotlights the devastating global tobacco epidemic and how the tobacco industry works to addict new users, especially kids.

The first detailed study to estimate the global impact of cancer has revealed that nearly 170 million years of healthy life were lost in 2008 because of the disease.