More and more caregivers are consulting psychiatric institutions to have their children's mental health assessed. Psychiatrists have attributed this to caregivers paying more attention to their children's behavioural patterns than before.
Hospital CEOs will be held accountable for failing systems at their institutions, KwaZulu-Natal Health MEC Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo told the heads of the seven major hospitals in eThekwini on Friday.
Discrimination against people with mental disorders makes it difficult to reintegrate them into society. Psychiatric health specialists blame this on the lack of understanding of mental illness and not knowing how to deal with someone who is mentally ill. In this report, we meet someone who has experienced first-hand such discrimination.
South African nurses are just as competent as doctors in monitoring patients on antiretroviral therapy. This is according to results of a four-year long study published recently in the respected international medical journal, The Lancet.
Newly graduated doctors who trained in Cuba have set their sights on improving South Africa's public health system.
The Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa (HPCA) and the South African Department of Defence have signed an agreement that will see members of the defence force receiving better palliative care.
Public sector doctors continue to be in short supply in South Africa as many leave the health system because of poor working conditions, bad management and low pay.
After a civil society group laid a complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) over an ad campaign for Carling Black Label beer with the pay-off line, 'Groot man of laaitie', South African Breweries quietly decided to pull the ad campaign.
RR Section is flanked by Lansdowne Road and Mew Way, both major arteries through the sprawling township of Khayelitsha. Ramshackle shacks are tightly knit with eroded and sodden dirt roads and footpaths cutting between the homes with a massive uninhabitable marsh right in the middle.
Most of the sanitation technologies provided to informal settlements in Cape Town do not meet the standards of basic sanitation. This is either due to the higher household: toilet ratios, the technology itself, the condition and location of the sanitation infrastructure, or the way in which it is serviced.
Diarrhoea, death, disability. Anso Thom uncovers the indignity of living without sanitation.
Several stories plot the toilet saga in Khayelitsha including a timeline, the A to Z of toilet types and the questions sent to the mayor.
National Vice President for Global Health at the American Cancer Society, Nathan Grey answers important questions pertaining to the recent UN Resolution on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases.
A hearing aid company has warned that the din created by thousands of vuvuzelas could leave some Soccer World Cup fans deaf.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) this week released GLOBOCAN 2008, a new database which provides the most accurate assessment of the global cancer burden. It shows that Cancer will kill more than 13.2 million people a year by 2030, almost double the number who died from the disease in 2008.
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