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Kick that junk: Cognisant of physical challenges office workers face in sedentary behaviour

Office space – the primary health frontier of any enterprise

Without good lighting, plants and privacy, the open-plan office can become a threat to the wellbeing of the people working there.
Your next doctor's appointment may be on your smartphone.

Watch list: Four things that could change healthcare as we know it

Fact may be stranger than science fiction as artificial intelligence moves into consulting rooms.
Doctors and nurses were held at gunpoint to stop giving patients treatment.

We can stop the haemorrhaging

South Africa has the means and opportunity to keep its healthcare professionals.
Solidarity: Sanac says government must urgently address police abuse of sex workers including the use of the workers' possession of condoms

SA’s HIV treatment programme has saved 1.3-million lives

A report by UNAids has revealed that SA's antiretroviral coverage has greatly increased in the last two decades, but remains short of global targets.
Impressed: Researcher Ché Makanjee is counselled before his HIV test at Charlotte Maxeke hospital.

Private sector lags in HIV testing

Government facilities are trumping their larnier colleagues in providing HIV services.
Mammography is still the gold standard of breast screening.

Mammograms still the gold standard of breast screening

Breast cancer expert, Justus Apffelstaedt, explains the complexities around the issue of screening for this disease.
The ANC maintains that Malakoane did an excellent job at the helm of the province's health system even after the Medicine Control Council shut down an unlawful stem cell "trial" at one of the province's hospital this week.

System is in good health, insists MEC Malakoane

Free State Health MEC Benny Malakoane has accused the M&G of sensationalist reporting, but warned that his department will run out of money this year.
Africa needs more emergency care specialists to prevent unnecessary deaths due to a lack of capacity and training.

Medics ‘sabotaged’ Eastern Cape health

The Eastern Cape health department claims hospital staff misled a government inspection team to create a bad impression.
Shield: A Tanzanian woman and her child use a mosquito net as a preventative measure against malaria.

Malaria has been beaten back – but children are still dying

Now the fight is on to eliminate the illness entirely – and save those still at the mercy of the mosquito.

Drug row sparked by HIV spending

A new study to be conducted in South Africa, Uganda and India has sparked a heated debate in the HIV activist and research community.
At peace: Buddhist nun Mila Kelsang says that even five minutes of meditation a day can reduce stress levels.

Meditation takes on medication

New research has shown that the 'practice of mindfulness meditation' can reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety.
David Sanders.

NHI a tonic for extreme inequality

Experts say the National Health Insurance scheme could benefit rich and poor, with positive broader outcomes.
A team from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases has arrived in Sierra Leone to assist in 'containing the ebola virus disease in that region'.

SA man tests negative for ebola

A health and safety officer working in Liberia - who is on home leave in SA - is in a stable condition, according to a health department statement.
Helen Keller epitomised triumph over adversity

The right to life – and death

However much we abhor the idea, the choice is personal and should be respected.
But could legalising South Africans' right to die put society's most vulnerable in harm's way?

Denying the right to die may be state-sanctioned torture, legal body says

As the country’s landmark euthanasia case heads to the appeal court, lawyers argue that keeping the practice illegal could violate the Bill of Rights

#QuarantineChronicles: Departure & distrust

South Africans in Wuhan are set to come back home on Friday, but our secret journaller has a few final thoughts to share in this final instalment of our series of first-hand accounts from citizens quarantined in China.