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Depression among the elderly is largely overlooked, but exercise can help to counter it.

Being conscious of good eating habits goes a long way towards winning the battle of the bulge.

The government has set several commendable goals but will have to improve its delivery.

The "dysfunctional" Health Professions Council of South Africa will not act immediately on recommendations made by Aaron Motsoaledi's task team.

For many of us, holiday time is drinking time, but shouldn't we be giving our booze-bods a break?

Colouring-in is for adults too and brings balance, mindfulness and helps the unarty to be creative.

The health scheme is scheduled to be functioning by 2025 but the precise costs are still not known.

The National Health Insurance white paper does not stipulate how the scheme will get funded; it only provides five possible scenarios.

SA society continues to betray traumatised young women who spiral into a life of drugs and abuse.

Cat' or 'intash' joins tik and nyaope in the playground as dealers target bored children.

South Africa has become only the second country in the world to allow widespread access to groundbreaking HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis medication.

South Africa lost nearly 100 000 people to TB last year – three-quarters of whom were HIV-positive. Reducing the burden will benefit the economy.

South African jails are making notable strides in screening for, and curing, tuberculosis.

The global TB rate has been falling by 1.5% per year – far slower than the 10% yearly declines needed to end TB within twenty years.

Our failure to adequately engage men with health services reduces the effectiveness of the many impressive, new HIV prevention breakthroughs.

The health minister has stressed the importance of improving tuberculosis treatment so as to help mitigate the drastic impact of TB-HIV co-infection.