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Independent pharmacies take on medical aid ‘bullies’
Community chemists say racial profiling and gated network are putting them out of business.
Five ways to reduce your risk of prostate cancer
Prostate cancer accounts for nearly a quarter of all cancers in black men. Find out how to protect yourself and the ones you love.
Busted: The myths that could be standing between you and the HIV prevention pill
A single daily tablet could slash your risk of HIV infection, could it be for you?
Trafficked to Turin: The Nigerian women forced into sex work abroad in Italy
Thousands of women are lured from Nigeria to Italy annually by the promise of a new life, only to find themselves trapped in the sex trade.
Medical smart jacket tackles misdiagnosis of pneumonia
Jacket would detect symptoms up to four times faster than a doctor.
When the sorrow doesn’t end: Could chronic grief be a medical condition?
The pain of bereavement is supposed to ease with time. When it doesn't, psychiatrists call it 'complicated grief' and it can be treated.
New temperatures are taking tropical diseases to new heights, like these once snow-capped villages
Rising temperatures linked to outbreaks of dengue fever high in the Kathmandu Valley, experts say.
Return trip: Psychedelics are back
In the first of a two-part series, a band of doctors set out to reclaim LSD and ecstasy for mental health treatments.
The magistrate’s tail: How these pets are helping child rape victims get justice
In court, comfort for the tiniest victims of sexual abuse can come from the unlikeliest of places.“All rise,” a voice declares as the...
‘Most renewable energy companies’ linked with claims of abuses in mines
Corporate watchdog urges clean-up of supply chains as analysis finds weak regulation and enforcement has led to lack of scrutiny.
South Sudan: From war to water crisis
The start of the rainy season in the war-torn country could spell a cholera outbreak.
Dr Death close to patients’ hearts
Wouter Basson, one of SA's controversial apartheid-era figures, may be banned from practising medicine, but cardiology would suffer, say patients.
The lockdown women planning their escape from abusive homes
Cases of domestic violence tick up while shelters lose their income and scramble to get ready for the silent, second crisis of gender-based violence that research suggests will follow the coronavirus pandemic.
Is today’s ukuthwala a perversion of an earlier tradition?
The kidnapping of young girls ignores the 'niceties' of a cultural practice.
Inside the illegal abortion market: ‘I nearly touched hell’
Zimbabwe’s tight abortion laws aren’t curbing demand, they’re driving them underground — and it’s about to get worse.
This former dictator invented a fake HIV cure, but banned female genital cutting
Having banned female genital cutting, his ousting was good for democracy, but but bad for women's bodies.