Following a litany of lies, "murderous" decisions, agonising deaths and torturous transfers, an amount of R1.2-million will now be paid to each of the families affected by the Gauteng Department of Health's decision to move mentally ill patients out of Life Esidimeni facilities.
South Africa is less than two weeks away from implementing the hard-won tax on sugary drinks. Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said now that "we've got a foot in the door" he will strengthen the government's fight against the negative health impacts of sugar by pushing for a higher tax.
Community Healthcare Workers in Gauteng, despite having had long overdue back pay issues sorted out, say their struggles are not yet over.
One in five South African babies surveyed in two townships have the same levels of nicotine in their system as active smokers.
Tobacco farming causes significant damage to the environment and farmers are often in debt as prices are low and production costs are high.
Africa’s health gains to go up in smoke if tobacco control is not addressed, experts warn at the world’s biggest tobacco control conference.
Twice as many women die of exposure to second-hand smoke as men, according to the global Tobacco Atlas launched at the 17th World Conference on Tobacco or Health today (8 March).
Lesotho has seen an explosion in smoking in the past decade – from 15 percent in 2004 to 54 percent in 2015 – thanks to aggressive marketing by tobacco companies and weak laws
Peer pressure, curiosity and wanting to “look cool” were the main reasons young people were sucking on cigarettes outside False Bay College gave as reasons for starting to smoke.
Regulations to ban smoking in all public spaces, remove branding from cigarettes packs and control electronic cigarettes will be published within two weeks.
Electronic smoking devices are harmful and not helping people to quit smoking, according to experts at the World Conference on Tobacco or Health.
Parents of children in Limpopo, where the source of the listeriosis outbreak was identified, are concerned about their children eating processed meats products when they can't supervise them while at school.
The global tobacco control conference opens for the first time on African soil today in Cape Town, but South African-born Derek Yach, a former World Health Organisation official, has been expressly forbidden to attend because of his links with Marlboro maker’s Philip Morris
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi is widely expected to announce new measures against smoking when he opens an international tobacco control conference today, including a ban on smoking in all public places, plain cigarette packages and gory pictorial health warnings on packs.
Our multimedia journalists Kim Harrisberg’s documentary titled ‘Food Apartheid’ will be aired on Cutting Edge tonight at 9.30pm.
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