From headaches to dental work, James Mchekecheke says he has seen a lifetime of poor service from South Africa’s public sector. Now, the 55-year-old building contractor says he would rather pay out-of-pocket than walk through a public clinic’s doors.
One Mpumalanga clinic is getting a facelift, but paint fumes and dust are making nurses and patients alike think twice about coming back.
Our rural community service doctor is well into her first week on Tim Noakes' Banting diet as she deals with life and death in the maternity ward.
Health-e's resident rural health blogger checks in as she starts her Banting Challenge: Can she do the latest high fat, low carb diet on a rural family's average food budget?
The lives of three million mothers and newborn babies could be saved every year if they received proper healthcare, especially during birth, according to a new Lancet report.
Doctors have cured a woman with advanced blood cancer by injecting her with the measles virus, the US non-profit Mayo Clinic recently announced.
More than a year after poor conditions at Lusikisiki’s beleaguered Village Clinic thrust it into national headlines, problems continue to plague the clinic.
South Africa’s first under-the-skin birth control implant is leading some Mpumalanga women to trade traditional birth control shots for the three-year implants.
Starting from Mothers Day on 11 May, pregnant women in the Western Cape are being given a little book to answer all their questions thanks to the provincial department of health and the Perinatal Mental Health Project (PMHP). The booklet…
North West parents have allegedly received anonymous messages warning them not to vaccinate their daughters against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV). Health officials have once again assured the public of the vaccine’s safety.
Resistance to common antibiotic medicine has been recorded in every region of the world, according to a report released yesterday by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The power of understanding and support gave two Saulsville residents the courage to see their tuberculosis (TB) treatment through to the end.
Heavy rains and bad roads cut off ambulance access to one clinic in rural Limpopo, leaving villagers to take the matter into their own hands.
The Health-e News team’s special investigation into childhood vaccinations has been named as one the top three entries in the African Story Challenge (health category).
The North West’s Klerksdorp/Tshepong Hospital Complex has added almost 100 new staff members as it welcomes new medical officers and, hopefully, specialists.
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