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The government must stop paying mere lip service to rooting out gender-based violence.

If the new Dr Harry Surtie Hospital has all the latest tech, why are patients complaining?

Simple phone services are stepping in to help women who can't seek clinical advice in person.

Practitioners in the private heatlthcare industry have welcomed the Competition Commission panel members who will lead the inquiry into the sector.

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

Government facilities are trumping their larnier colleagues in providing HIV services.

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.