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The AG's report has found that the Council for Medical Schemes failed to comply with laws governing the financial management of public entities.

Research shows that the way doctors describe medical conditions can affect whether or not a patient demands antibiotics.

Infectious diseases such as HIV and, increasingly, non-communicable illnesses like diabetes are resulting in more cases of chronic depression.

Boys should also be vaccinated for the Human papillomavirus, which is the leading cause of cervical cancer, according to a report.

SA spends an enormous amount on preventative medicine but no one can tell where the failures are.

A UCT study says counselling is needed to keep tuberculosis sufferers on treatment, without which they risk developing more dangerous forms of TB.

The Treatment Action Campaign believes antiretroviral treatment should be offered to all HIV-positive citizens, not just those with low CD4 counts.

Despite the risks, many South Africans continue to buy black market aphrodisiacs over the internet.

Children who are exposed to gangsterism are at greater risk of becoming perpetrators of violence themselves, according to a study in Mannenberg.

The country has a high suicide rate, psychiatric illnesses are on the rise and stress has become normalised.

The "vasepididymostomy" has landed in South Africa – a method that greatly increases the success rate of reverse vasectomies.

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.

Several cases of mycoplasma pneumonia, or "walking" pneumonia, have recently been reported in Johannesburg.

Exposé spurs flurry of activity, but problems remain.

With last year's provincial medical services data now available, Africa Check questions the Free State health's assertions of "significant progress".

A survey of stock levels of HIV drugs is in stark contrast to health department claims that "there is no shortage".