The family of a Vosloorus teen believes an injection to treat a soccer injury may have led to their son’s death, and say they may have been able to prevent this if nurses had explained to them the possible treatment side effects.
About 20 percent of South Africans live on less than R350 per month and this kind of poverty could be having real impacts not only on people’s physical health but also their mental well being.
Amid a dire shortage of ambulances in the Eastern Cape patients’ lives are at risk as many calls for help go unanswered. A new Health-e News documentary, Dying In Our Homes, reveals the impact on the lives of rural families.
South African men must start playing their part in society, according to South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) Deputy Chairperson Tshiamo Moela.
Rape remains under-reported nationally but there may be no rapes more hidden than those committed within families.
The “new” Natalspruit Hospital in Vosloorus has been renamed for ANC activist Thelle Mogoerane.
While locals are still reeling about the suicide of 14-year-old Klara Göttert, who took her life at Northgate Mall this week, another mother in the Free State’s rural town of Bethlehem is also mourning the death by suicide of her 18-year-old daughter.
The Nyembezi family alleges that the Natalspruit Hospital failed to attend to their dying daughter after what seemed like a common cold turned deadly.
Rheumatic heart disease week is marked from 4 to 10 August. Read about one boy's battle with this disease.
One in four people go hungry in South Africa every day, and the public needs to ensure that their right to access to food enshrined in the Constitution is realised.
Mom gets toe amputated for no reason when wrongly diagnosed as diabetic, claims son.
In April 2014, the Free State health department terminated the services of around 3,800 community healthworkers (CHW) – apparently for being too old and under-educated - despite many years’ service supplementing the province’s inadequate care for its sick.
To commemorate Youth Month in June, Health-e News is broadcasting a five-part adolescent health series on Morning Live (SABC 2). This insert – the fifth in the series – follows Mpho, a lesbian youth, as she learns to be more open about her sexuality.
Pensioners living in rural Eastern Cape villages say they have never seen an ambulance in their lives as a deadly combination of poor management and budget shortfalls keeps ambulances out of rural communities.
An anaesthetist is not only responsible for putting you to sleep before surgery - they also have to keep you alive during and 24-hours after an operation.
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