KZN cancer patients sent home with panados as treatment waiting lists grow
State cancer patients have nowhere to turn, even if their cancer is treatable.
3D-printed prosthetic limbs: The next revolution in medicine
The process could transform manufacturing and help the 30 million people worldwide in need of artificial limbs and braces.
Penicillin shortages as pharma companies eye newer, more lucrative drugs
Older antibiotic staples are no longer moneymakers. But as modern bugs evolve to outwit them, very few new drugs are ready to take their place.
Would you put your baby in a cardboard box? Check out this parenting trend
The Finns’ cardboard box prompts an African graduate to develop a life-saving device for babies.
Acid attacks: ‘I didn’t have the money to buy justice, but I had brains...
In the wake of acid attacks, victims — often women — can feel hopeless. Now, women around the world are fighting back.
‘I saw the world through the blurry lens of an oxygen tent’
With the severe effects of the habit on the unborn child now widely known, why do pregnant mothers refuse to give up?
Football like you’ve never seen it: On the pitch with this blind soccer team
Blind football represents hope and belonging for Egypt's one million visually impaired.
‘There is hope this evil illness will not befall us again’
The residents of a Nigerian village had no health services, save for traditional methods, to treat those with a fever and a rash.
Elsa and Nosipho: They both sell sex for a living, but in opposite worlds
Does sex work legislation have an impact on violence and the spread of HIV? We follow two women who operate in opposite worlds to find out.
The ABCs of autism in the classroom: ‘He only wants to eat sandwiches with...
Autistic children experience the world differently, but this doesn’t stop them from learning.
Speak more than one language? This is what it does to your brain.
Speaking more than one language could lead to better tests scores and even being a more empathetic person.
What developing countries can teach the Global North about how to respond to a...
When it comes to leadership and innovation, there's much that industrialised nations can learn.
From stranded to solitude: How the short-lived relief of repatriation could be people’s tipping...
As South Africa enters level two of its national lockdown, international travel remains restricted. One of the few exceptions are repatriation flights, which require a mandatory quarantine period. But the toll of mounting stress and isolation may have long-term consequences on people’s mental health.
The promise and peril of ditching South Africa’s psychiatric hospitals
Community mentalhealth care can be better for patients and health systems if it's done right.
Find out how one organisation is making it work.
The lost particles of grief: How COVID-19 is changing death
From grandmothers to gravediggers, the sudden, suffocating deaths of the coronavirus pandemic is affecting people in all sectors of South African...
Gasping for breath: Pneumonia’s deadly toll
A disease that claims the lives of two children under five a minute worldwide has hit drought-stricken Kenya hard, its spread driven by malnutrition.