A recent study published in the South African Medical Journal suggests that the shortage of suitable emergency transport services for patients needing intensive care is putting patients' lives at risk and results in an increase in medical costs.
After years of stalling and much criticism from the HIV/AIDS sector, the Policy Committee of the National Health Council on Friday finally adopted new guidelines for the prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT).
The Southern African HIV Clinicians Society has added its voice to the growing criticism of the health department's failure to get its house in order on the prevention of mother to children transmission (PMTCT) programme.
Simple, affordable life-saving measures, such as exclusive breastfeeding, immunization, insecticide-treated bed nets and vitamin A supplementation, have helped to reduce child deaths in recent years, according to UNICEF's The State of the World's Children 2008 report.
New guidelines to prevent HIV positive mothers from infecting their babies will finally be put to the National Health Council on Friday ' at least a month behind schedule.
The more than 100 000 nurses employed by government are expected to benefit from salary increases before the end of March, the health department has confirmed.
Doctors and The Lancet have slammed immigration officials who removed a terminally ill Ghanaian woman from a hospital in Wales and escorted her back to Ghana, where she is unable to afford the treatment she needs to prolong her life.
'Personalised medicine' is the hottest trend in wealthy countries, but how do poor countries get access to gene-specific treatment when we can't even get ordinary pills to people?
Bulungula Lodge offers a sustainable way of life within a tight community.
There are no services in Nqileni Village in the Eastern Cape and kids are dying from drinking contaminated water. But a conditional grant for the district was returned untouched to the Treasury
A single dose of two antiretrovirals given to mothers shortly after giving birth has shown to reduce the chances of the women developing later resistance, a new study from Zambia has shown.
The health indicators, which provide a snapshot of our nation's health, still paint a picture of a violent, racially divided country where women bear the brunt of disease.
Traditional medicine generates almost R3-billion a year and government needs to urgently remove barriers preventing its practitioners from claiming from medical schemes for services rendered.
South Africa is sitting on a 'future time bomb' as employers remove medical health insurance from employees when they retire.
While hospital beds in the public sector are being reduced, the private sector has added almost 7 000 beds between 1998 and 2006.
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