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Diets come and go like fashion - new research shows that to cut the weight you should cut the sugar.

The search for an anti-HIV microbicide continues, after a new trial has refuted the results of a previous study that found one to be effective.

While many say the Free State health department's financial situation is dire, officials say "there's no problem at all".

WATCH LIVE: Zweli Mkhize unveils the National Health Insurance Bill.

Gauteng — the province with the most confirmed COVID-19 cases — is also one of the two provinces with the lowest uptake of quarantine facilities.

Despite fear-mongering by some and threats that their arrival will be met with protests, the cluster is unlikely to introduce new coronavirus cases to the country. Why? The group has been under quarantine for weeks and screened multiple times a day.

Is it time to start mining … for masks? Why some doctors are getting creative to meet the growing demand for this medical equipment.

Women may be paying the price for decades’ old concessions to the medical aid industry.

Experts at COP28 have warned that the climate crisis threatens to put us back in the fight against HIV. Floods and droughts will make it harder to adhere to daily treatment and to access HIV prevention medication, and will increase the demand for transactional sex.

After two days of deliberations on the National Health Insurance, delegates are expected to summarise findings and present the way forward.

People between the ages of 12 and 17 will be able to register from 20 October. This group will only be given one dose of the Pfizer vaccine to decrease their chances of developing heart inflammation.

With no money for petrol, many doctors have applied for authorised special leave. But some hospitals have warned there will be consequences.

The active ingredient in magic mushrooms could help treat depression in people who have had no success with traditional treatments.

People who participate in a challenge trial volunteer to get sick in order to help scientists learn more about a disease. These studies have been used for diseases like cholera and malaria — and now for COVID-19.

Reporter Pontsho Pilane has been recognised for her reporting on menstruation.

Children between the ages of 5 and 11 are given smaller doses of the Pfizer vaccine than adults. That means the government will have to buy new vials and new needles for the vaccine programme to vaccinate this group which the health department doesn’t have the money to do.