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Melinda Gates on what’s best for children
Family planning is not a luxury to everyone. Melinda Gates talks about why she has dedicated so much of her time to helping women plan their families.
Basson to learn his fate next month
The HPCSA will rule on Wouter Basson's fate on December 18 after a five-year long inquiry into his actions during apartheid.
Zaps to the brain curb need to smoke
A study shows that 44% of heavy smokers kicked the habit after receiving magnetic stimulation.
Touch-and-go breast tech is no substitute for mammograms
SureTouch does not claim to be a substitute for proper breast cancer screening, but patients are being misled.
Breast may be best, but bribing mothers to nurse is not
There are many advantages to breastfeeding but should mothers be bribed to do it?
A mother to 30; a nurse to thousands
Undaunted by apartheid and Aids, she has made all the difference to those otherwise abandoned.
‘You can fight if you have support’
Two young women are proving to the world that the most deadly strain of TB can be beaten.
We can stop the haemorrhaging
South Africa has the means and opportunity to keep its healthcare professionals.
‘If they are raped, then so what?’
Mentally disabled people in the rural Eastern Cape are considered worthless, even evil. When girls are sexually abused, mothers are no longer shocked.
Mothers haunted by hospital hell
Our children’s lives were lost due to the negligence of the Mpumalanga health system, say grieving mothers.
Spit twit nips TB shame in the bud
India has dispatched an unlikely hero to promote tuberculosis awareness and battle its stigma.
Medics ‘sabotaged’ Eastern Cape health
The Eastern Cape health department claims hospital staff misled a government inspection team to create a bad impression.
Hospital staff dismissed for striking against dodgy doctor
Four Messina Hospital staff members, who are also shop stewards for the union Nehawu, have been dismissed for inciting strike action against a doctor.
How Gordhan’s expenditure cuts could affect health targets
Finance minister Pravin Gordhan’s "careful control of the wage Bill" will impact negatively on health service delivery, says a health economist.
Brazil’s sick of patent exploitation
The country is fighting the intellectual property laws that hiked up the cost of its HIV programme.
Green rooibos takes fight to diabetes
An antioxidant found in tea brewed from the indigenous plant offers hope for new treatments.