Access to cancer treatment – Checkpoint documentary
This Health-e News documentary produced for eNCA's Checkpoint looks at the dire shortage of cancer treatment in South Africa's public sector
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Can diet reverse diabetes?
Anecdotes of people claiming to have reduced or gone off diabetes medication altogether after cutting out carbohydrates have seen fad diets cash in on claims of “reversing diabetes”.
Poor roads keep ambulances out of John Dube
Roads in John Dube Village outside Johannesburg are so bad that ambulances cannot reach critical patients. Instead, patients must walk or be carried to the main road to receive emergency help.
Early treatment may be key to stemming pneumonia deaths
As pneumonia remains a leading cause of death in South Africa, experts stress that early treatment is key to heading off this killer infection.
Learning the hard way to love her body
As South Africans’ waistlines continue to grow, one Mpumalanga woman tells OurHealth about how weight problems have followed her through life like a shadow – and so did low self-esteem.
Shy billionaire finally honoured in SA
Few South Africans know the name Chuck Feeney, yet he has touched the lives of millions in this country by donating over R3 billion in development aid.
Former Wits Dean implicated in R18m laboratory scandal
The Hawks are investigating a former Wits University Dean and National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) head for his alleged role in the laboratory’s procurement of HIV testing kits worth R18-million that never arrived.
Limpopo nurses, community rally around pensioner with diabetes
Nurses at Limpopo’s Thengwe Clinic decide to go above and beyond for one elderly patient after neighbours discover she has stopped taking her chronic medication.
Soweto family seeks clarity about son’s death
Winnie Nyatsi was not there when her son died. Now, she is on a mission to solve how her 17-year-old son died in Krugersdorp
Family helps father to recover from stroke
A brave and loving family refused to let their father give up on life after he suffered a stroke about a year ago.
School-based HPV vaccination campaign wraps up
As a school campaign to inoculate girls against one of the leading causes of cervical cancer wraps in the Northern Cape’s Siyancuma Local Municipality, one nurse says parents need to know more about the human papillomavirus (HPV).
The next wave of prevention: Ring-fencing HIV
A range of new products, including vaginal rings and antiretroviral (ARV) injections, may soon be on offer to prevent HIV.
New barometer reveals the haves and the have nots
Life is hardest for people living in the Eastern Cape’s Alfred Nzo district, where fewer than six out of 100 households have inside taps.
Experts mull ways to fund, manage National Health Insurance
The National Health Insurance (NHI) is likely to revolutionise health funding. This could include new, business-like approaches to health and new roles for medical aids in the post-NHI world, according to latest South African Health Review released last night.
You’re never too young for a stroke
More people in their 20s and 30s are suffering strokes, which can affect even children and babies, warns the Heart and Stroke Foundation (HSF).