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Fears as Durban loses last state cancer specialist
Only two state cancer specialists remain in the province of more than 10-million people.
Why you might battle to find a doctor to deliver your baby in SA
Could the legal profession be behind the droves of gynaecologists leaving their jobs?COMMENTMedico-legal litigation has exploded. As of March 2016, claims against the health...
How to defy Zuma – and survive to tell the tale
Analysts say this minister's strong SACP connections and ANC support ensure he’s ‘too powerful politically’ for the president to fire.
Motsoaledi: What the NHI will mean for you – and your tax credits
Our Laura Lopez Gonzalez asks health minister Aaron Motsoaledi five questions about the National Health Insurance (NHI) and your medical aid.
Is ‘all-in-one healthcare’ a dream?
Is getting all you need from one health team far fetched? Actually not. It's one field where the public health system beats the private one.
SA scores new medicine worth millions – for free
A deal brokered with the health department guarantees free access but for how long?
Radical transformation begins with fixing how we fund healthcare in remote areas
Once slices of the healthcare funding pie are dished out to provinces, there is little control over how this money is spent to benefit the rural poor.
Dozens of health workers still unemployed as departments scramble for posts
Much is made of alleged shortages in doctors’ posts but clinical associates rarely gets a mention, says professional association.
Motsoaledi denies shortage of posts for medical graduates
The health department says the problems with placements are overstated but experts wonder if provincial budgets are coping with rising costs.
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.
How to choose a medical aid plan
Are you thinking of switching medical aid options? If so, read this first.
Fed-up NHI doctors say they are nothing more than glorified nurses
GPs working in the National Health Insurance’s biggest pilot site say they won't stay because of drug stock-outs, staff shortages and long queues
Caesarean vs vaginal birth: A mother’s choice, not her doctor’s
C-sections may result in fewer lawsuits, but they are not always the best option.
Hundreds of medical graduates may be unemployed amid budget cuts
More than 200 newly qualified doctors may be left with worthless degrees if provinces can't raise funds for internship positions
The promise and peril of ditching South Africa’s psychiatric hospitals
Community mental health care can be better for patients and health systems if it's done right.
Find out how one organisation is making it work.
What will happen to your medical aid under the NHI?
Our Mia Malan explains whether medical aids will be affordable under the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme.