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Aid may often be criticised, but it works, says the Gates Foundation.

Poor management at Bara hospital left doctors with no choice but to operate on a patient using only the light from cellphones and iPads, says Sama.

Clinical associates are changing the medical sector by freeing up doctors to do more.

Women in South Africa are waking up to the dangers posed by fetal alcohol syndrome.

A procedure new to SA has allowed a young mother to give part of her liver to save her son.

Organ donations are rare in SA: donors and the specialists needed to do transplants are few. But awareness increases as more lives are being saved.

Bhekisisa looks back at, and follows up on, some of the most popular and impactful stories of 2013.

These "cancer-fighting" molecules may not be the good guys we have been led to believe.

Doctors from the Soweto hospital have approached the Mail & Guardian in a last-resort effort to get the equipment, supplies and services they need.

The report about Ikhaya Loxolo, a home for the mentally disabled in the Eastern Cape, has sparked a dramatic response from government officials.

Doctors and traditional leaders have begun negotiating to allow doctors to assist with circumcisions to reduce initiation-related deaths and injuries.

NGOs use maternal deaths to illustrate the dire state of Mpumalanga hospitals.

Patient Jasper Hoon is critical about the low maximum sanction the council can administer on doctors who provide insufficient care.

Family members of victims of Wouter Basson have expressed relief that the apartheid-era doctor has been found guilty after a six-year trial.

Hundreds of thousands of HIV patients could be affected by Pepfar's shift in funding policy, according to a new report.

KwaZulu-Natal traffic officers have allegedly stopped drivers at the Mooi River Toll plaza on the N3 and forced them to take HIV tests.