Four times as many people have Type II diabetes today as 36 years ago, according to the World Health Organisation. In 1980, 108 million people were diagnosed with diabetes worldwide. By 2014, the figure was 422 million writes Dr Sundeep Ruder.
The MEC of Department of Health in Limpopo province Dr Phophi Ramathuba has publicly condemned the actions of the Limpopo pastor alleged to be spraying insect repellant in the faces of his followers to heal them.
All over South Africa, women have developed taste for eating soil or clay and now packets of soil are being sold by street vendors alongside their usual products. SANDILE MBILI, BONTLE MOTSOENENG AND LINDIWE MSIBI report...
Despite getting 47 percent of the provincial budget, the Limpopo Department of Education has once again failed to get a clean audit.
Most South Africans, without their knowledge or consent, are unknowingly consuming genetically modified food products every single day.
LIMPOPO - After four months battling to recover from childbirth due to ongoing bleeding caused by failed efforts by nurses to stich her properly after giving birth, a young Limpopo mother has finally been helped.
Community health care workers, unhappy about how they are treated by the Gauteng Department of Health, took to the streets on Tuesday and marched to the department’s offices to raise their concerns.
Health-e has the good fortune to welcome a number of new staff members over the past few months. Gill Gifford joins us as news editor.
LOUIS TRICHARD - Ongoing bleeding and repeatedly failed efforts to stitch her up have left a young Limpopo woman battling to recover from childbirth, as the Health Department promises to step in and help.
Scholars and academics from leading universities around the world have added their voices to the call for the implementation of a tax on sugary drinks in South Africa.
Mothers in Vhembe, Limpopo are crying for help because their children – particularly young girls – are using skin bleaching products.
Scores of Ekurhuleni women gathered together recently to join in a 4km fun walk – the first annual Breast Cancer Awareness Walk aimed at creating an awareness of the illness in the local community.
There is a “nightmare of underfunding” for tuberculosis (TB), described by experts as “the greatest infectious disease killer on the planet”.
A R630-million programme aimed at training 600 innovative leaders to address inequality in the health sector has been launched. The US-based Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) this week committed itself to training 30 young and mid-career people every year over the next…
Almost a quarter of the world’s population is infected with ‘latent’ tuberculosis (TB) - a dormant form of the disease, threatening the World Health Organisation’s aim to fully eliminate TB by 2050.
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