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A controversial plastic additive is said to affect foetuses and increase the risk of breast cancer.

In about a year we’re likely to know if a candidate vaccine we’re starting to test this week, is effective against a virus that has devastated our country.

Meet a South African getting her HIV medication at the press of a button.

Ramadan is meant to be a calm, spiritual time, but headaches triggered by fasting can ruin this special observance for many. Learn how to handle them.

With substandard medicines already in wide circulation, fears are growing that coronavirus could create a lethal ‘parallel crisis’.When Joana Opoku-Darko’s daughter Anna was 18...

South Africa’s tuberculosis (TB) tracking data is far from complete but we’ve compiled an interactive map to show how well each province fared at curing the most drug-resistant form of TB (according to the best available data).

Allegations of graft during his tenure as Gauteng health MEC aren’t new, says ANC Gauteng chief whip. In fact, they’re talked about regularly.

Doctors Without Borders has stressed the critical importance of adequate investment into the prevention of diseases such as Ebola and cholera.

Children have not been the drivers of COVID-19 in South Africa, but data monitored since the beginning of the pandemic shows that the likelihood of infection, disease or death among them generally increases with age.

Guidelines around the world are changing to recommend the use of masks. But you still shouldn’t be buying medical masks - rather make your own at home.

Why righting human rights abuses against migrant workers starts with recognising the intersection of gender, labour & exploitation.

The bizarre case from Durban is at least the second such case nationally in the last three years.

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has not yet revealed how the government will fund its National Insurance scheme.

It’s available and it’s affordable. But science still doesn’t know enough to back the antimalarial drug chloroquine for widespread use against the new coronavirus. A new trial in South Africa may change that at home — and abroad.

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

Key players say the culture of government created by Jacob Zuma allowed the deaths of 94 health patients.