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

This year wasn’t pretty but from its ashes may rise important scientific advances that could change the course of history.

Countries in central and sub-Saharan Africa will be hit the hardest by heat waves as climate change ramps up. What can Africans do to survive?

It’s been almost 40 years since a new class of antibiotics was discovered. Do governments need to incentivise drug companies differently to get them to develop antibiotics to turn the tide against drug-resistant superbugs?

Some have lauded the draft policy, saying it could make medication cheaper, but others say it is "unimpressive" and "almost contradictory".

Hundreds of thousands of HIV patients could be affected by Pepfar's shift in funding policy, according to a new report.

National health department deploys 200 officials to country’s beleaguered hospitals.

Picketing doctors and nurses in Limpopo could be just a taste of what's to come as unions and government prepare to head to the bargaining table.

The social networking site is responding to the growing number of cries for help on its pages by including tips and links for users in distress.

“Whenever there is a crisis, I’m called in to solve them, but I don’t have the legal mechanism to prevent them,” says minister.

Africa is building up a genomic surveillance network of 12 regional hubs that will help the continent to prepare for future pandemics.

Men who have sex with men can now safely use the HIV prevention pill before and after sex, instead of every day.

Gloria Orwoba, a Kenyan politician, is on a mission to end period poverty in that country, where government statistics show over half of women cannot afford products such as pads. Orwoba is pushing for them to get free sanitary products.

South Africa’s Constitution makes food a human right, but 11% of the country’s people are hungry. Here’s why.

Far fewer people are testing for COVID-19 than last year this time, but most people flush. Water in the country’s drains can pick up a spike in cases or can help to pick up a threatening new variant in time for clinics to prepare for an influx of patients.

Corruption watchdog Transparency International is accused of promoting ‘toxic’ workplace culture that silenced critical voices.