The 52-page report represents the culmination of two years of work by the World Health Organisation (WHO) committee in an effort to address the alarming levels of childhood obesity and overweight globally.
Maniini Junior and Senior Primary School pupils are receiving counselling following the shooting death of a classmate who was allegedly shot by a fellow student.
As Free State health services allegedly continue to deteriorate and prompt a heated battle between politicians and Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) activists, a new organisation has joined the fray as a former Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) leader breaks from TAC.
Alcohol remains a killer on the country's roads, and despite government proposals to curb drinking holes, taverns continue to flourish.
The joint publication by the Stop TB Partnership and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) surveys tuberculosis treatment (TB) and diagnosis policy and practice in 24 countries.
Johannesburg web developer Mulalo Simeti grew up in rural Limpopo, but when she heard reports that her local primary school was collapsing, she headed home to get to work.
The online, searchable portal serves as a repository of health-related past and present research conducted in South Africa.
About half of South African adults are obese. The tide of obesity washing over our shores has spared our children and reversing it has to be a family affair, say dieticians.
When Gloria Shiba got sick, she refused to believe she could be at risk of tuberculosis (TB). Now, her mother says she believes Shiba's decision to keep her illness hidden may have cost Shiba her life – it may also reflect a new kind of stigma.
This Medical Research Council brief summarises the key points of a systematic review evaluating the medicinal use of cannabis first published by Dr Penny Whiting in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Following reports of shortages of 300mg lamivudine tablets, the Department of Health has assured the public there is no stock out of the antiretroviral (ARV) and issued clinician guidance regarding the formulation, which will no longer be offered on tender.
Issued on 7 January, the Department of Health circular offers guidance to clinicians regarding the use of two-in-one combination antiretrovirals (ARV) following a change in ARV tendering.
Imagine being in labour, vulnerable and scared and being told by hospital staff to clean up your own blood. For years, reports of women being abused during labour at public health facilities have made headlines. Now, a kinder, gentler birth for many South Africa women may come from an unlikely place.
Released in December, this 56-page policy outlines the management of patient safety incidents, including the provision of feedback to patients, families and clinicians, as well as the sharing of lessons learned.
Some Gauteng patients living with HIV are going without a life-saving antiretroviral (ARV) as the province suffers a shortage of the ARV lamivudine.
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