The South African government should develop a plan to make healthy foods such as fruit, vegetables, and whole grain cereals more available, affordable, and acceptable, and non-essential, high-calorie, nutrient-poor products, including soft drinks and some packaged foods and snacks, less available, more costly, and less appealing to the South African population.
The health care system must gear itself for an "explosion" of cancer and other non-communicable diseases, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said during a recent visit to the iThemba Labs in Cape Town.
The strike by AIDS counsellors in Gauteng is continuing, despite the provincial heath department's promise to settle the pay dispute. The striking workers say they will return to work only when the Gauteng Health Department has deposited their money into their accounts.
Is it possible to control the epidemic of HIV by using antiretroviral therapy? This pressing question is addressed in a collection of new articles published in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine.
An advocacy group affiliated with the American Cancer Society asked the Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services last week to direct the surgeon general to fully investigate the relationship between human health and consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, or SSBs. By Jennifer LaRue Huget for the Washington Post
In South Africa and across Africa, HIV continues to prey on women, sex workers and men who have sex with men. It is clear that to end the HIV epidemic, we must protect and support these groups.By Festus Mogae and Stephen Lewis
Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline LLC (GSK) agreed to plead guilty and to pay $3 billion to resolve its criminal and civil liability arising from the company's unlawful promotion of certain prescription drugs, its failure to report certain safety data, and its civil liability for alleged false price reporting practices, the US Justice Department announced. Read the full US Justice Department statement here
Most medical problems can be controlled through early detection and treatment. Looking after your health means going for regular screening tests, even when you feel fine.
The evidence that voluntary medical male circumcision reduces the risk of a heterosexual man contracting HIV in high prevalence areas is beyond reasonable doubt.
Scientists have pinpointed an invaluable indicator of men's health: the penis.
OPINION: 'The magnitude of the HIV/AIDS challenge facing the country calls for a concerted, co-ordinated and co-operative national effort in which government in each of its three spheres and the panoply of resources and skills of civil society are marshalled, inspired and led. This can only be achieved if there is proper communication, especially by government.' By Brian Honermann and Mark Heywood
Twenty-three years after a South African Medical Journal article called for a ban on tobacco advertising, ample evidence indicates that the severe public health burden from hazardous and harmful use of alcohol in South Africa warrants the same drastic action.
Decades of poor medical and veterinary antibiotic prescribing and a lack of regard for the practice of infection prevention and control(IPC) in our hospitals have left South Africa, like the rest of the international community, on the brink of a return to an era of untreatable bacterial infection.
Women who exercise moderately can significantly cut their risk of breast cancer, according to a new report in Cancer. However, weight gain may undermine the benefits of exercise
Smoking have long been associated with cancers of the lung, mouth and throat, among others, but now it appears that it might also increase your risk of a certain type of skin cancer.
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