Spare your babies from salt – and hypertension
Parents should give their babies food with little or no salt to ensure that they don’t grow up with a taste for unhealthy salty food.
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Running to ease her pain and that of others
After losing her father due to suicide in 2010, Zanele Hlatshwayo (35) from Orlando West in Soweto turned to running as a way of easing her own pain, and is now set on using her athleticism to raise funds to help people suffering from depression and mental illness.
Some tuckshops continue to sell polony ‘kotas’
Despite the deadly listeriosis outbreak, tuck shops close to schools in Duduza are still serving school children ‘kotas’ with processed meat.
WORLD TB DAY: Breakthrough returns to 100-year-old vaccine
A breakthrough South African study may change the course of vaccine research for the world's number one infectious-disease killer: tuberculosis (TB). While a new vaccine has been heralded as the only hope, researchers have returned to an old vaccine discovered almost 100 years ago for answers.
Op-ed: Championing a TB free South Africa
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi is that fiery blend of political activism, commitment to mission, and professional competence that will help to bring an end to tuberculosis (TB), writes TB Proof's Ingrid Schoeman ahead of World TB Day on Saturday.
Op-ed: New health product regulatory authority launched
The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority shows promise for more efficient review and approval of medical devices and medicines, writes PATH's Yolanda Moyo.
Op-ed: What you didn’t see at the Esidimeni arbitration
The decision of Former Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke in the Life Esidimeni arbitration is an important landmark following more than two years of resistance, negotiation, confrontation, heart break and horror, writes Section27 attorney.
Esidimeni: families each to get R1,2-million
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.
Sugar tax: The fight against sugar is just beginning
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.
Struggle continues for Gauteng health workers
Community Healthcare Workers in Gauteng, despite having had long overdue back pay issues sorted out, say their struggles are not yet over.
Shockingly nicotine levels found in SA’s babies
One in five South African babies surveyed in two townships have the same levels of nicotine in their system as active smokers.
Tobacco is expensive to the environment
Tobacco farming causes significant damage to the environment and farmers are often in debt as prices are low and production costs are high.
Africa is the new tobacco target
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.
Secondhand smoking kills more women than men
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).
Massive increase in smoking in Lesotho
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