Gaming medicine: Virtual reality is bringing real-time relief for chronic pain
Virtual reality isn’t just for video games anymore. It’s revolutionising medicine, including the way we manage pain.
Rural hospitals in terminal crisis
Accessing healthcare in this rural town has never been easy. Shortages of staff as well as medical equipment makes it difficult for this hospital...
How COVID-19 took hold in South Africa
We take you on the new coronavirus's journey through the country — and tell you how it got it.
This is what a feminist looks like
Rape culture doesn't start when a rape is committed. It is built in slow steps in everyday events that help normalise gender-based violence.
Doctor smartphone and other tales from the bedroom
From how to spice up your sex life to the more mundane, “does this look weird to you”, there are some questions you just don’t want to ask your friends and family. Relax. Now, there’s an app for that.
Investigation reveals shocking conditions at NGOs caring for disabled people
Report unearths neglect in Kenyan institutions, yet discrimination means children may be at risk of being killed if they remain in communities
Growing up with a mother who has schizophrenia is tough on a child
When a parent is diagnosed with a mental illness, the chances of emotional support are decreased and the risk of family discord is high.
Unearthing the salt hidden in your diet
Some of your favourite comfort food could be concealing a killer.
2018: The best, the worst and the weird
You made it through the year. Kick back, relax and take a read through the 2018 that was.
Long queues tell Zimbabwe’s story of economic crisis and failing healthcare
Many people can no longer afford hospital treatment and medication, and the number of those with medical aid has fallen by a third.
Big Tobacco faces landmark legal case over poverty wages
Lawyers argue that while farming families toil over backbreaking work in desperate poverty, British American Tobacco is reaping the rewards.
Even Dickens did not describe...
How much sugar do you drink?
Half a litre of Coke contains 10 teaspoons of sugar – almost the entire recommended daily sugar allowance. But fruit juice is as bad.
Selling sex
From Amsterdam’s glittering canals to Durban’s dark streets, take a look at how the world legislates sex — and why it matters.
From the mouths of babes: This is what it’s like to be diagnosed with...
Death comes for us all and when it does, we hope it’s a good one. We hope it has meaning, we hope it’s painless...
Water in Ghana from pipe to packet: Is there a hidden cost to this...
In a country where pipes can stop short of reaching home, cheap sachets of water sold on the street could be an unlikely solution, but at what cost?
Poisonous haze: Why the air we breathe could kill us
Climate change and air pollution could be conspiring against the continent, and fuelling new levels of death and disease.