More food, more weight gain
The greater availability of food, rather than our sedentary lifestyles, are responsible for our expanding waistlines, says a new report.
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While you were sleeping
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.
Video: ‘I turned into a monster’
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 fourth in the series – follows Lebohang Tieho Neko, a youth who has recently managed to overcome his Nyaope addiction.
Slideshow: What’s for dinner?
As food prices continue to climb, we look at how four South African families are coping.
Revenge porn distributors to face the law – SAPS
A 32-year-old Free State man who sent a video of himself and his under-age girlfriend having sex to friends and teachers at the girl’s school could be in hot water, says SA Police Service National Spokesperson Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo.
Standerton Hospital opens wellness clinic
Mpumalanga’s Standerton Hospital opened a new wellness clinic to improve services and shorten wait times this week.
Through the looking glass: ‘I was living an unliveable life’
In the latest installment of her regular mental health blog, Jocelyn Fryer writes about how she lost – and found – her voice after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
Hawkers peddle rotten wares to pupils
A Limpopo headmaster is livid at street hawkers who have been selling his pupils rotten food and has banished the hawkers from the school area.
Video: ‘Ok, I have HIV, I want to live a long life’
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 third in the series – follows Aphiwe Thamela, an HIV-positive youth who is both raising a daughter and making a difference in her community.
University students urged to be HIV, STI savvy
Some students go to university to get an education, but leave with not only a degree but also HIV or a sexually transmitted infection (STI), according to University of KwaZulu Natal’s HIV/AIDS Programme co-ordinator Nomonde Magantolo.
Nappy-dumping mums taken to task
Limpopo mums who dump used disposable nappies in the streets have been warned that they will face the wrath of the law if they do not clean up their act.
Is there an orthopod in the house?
Our rural doctor-turned-blogger gets what could be the important WhatsApp of her career as she faces a bakkie load of factures by herself and without a specialist.
Clinic languishes for years with shortages of space, water
Nursing staff and patients at the Bankhara Community Clinic outside Kuruman, Northern Cape say their clinic continues to struggle with medicine and space shortages almost two years after OurHealth first reported on the clinic’s poor state.
Price tag of HIV response to more than double by 2033
With 3.1 million people on antiretrovirals (ARV), South Africa has the world’s largest ARV programme, but sustaining it – and the HIV response – will more than double in the next two decades, according to new research.
Drug stock outs hit more than one in 10 health facilities
HIV and tuberculosis (TB) drug stock outs have hit about 14 percent of health facilities nationwide in the last nine months, according to a new study released today by civil society coalition the Stop Stock Outs Project.