November 18th, 2020Almost a third (31%) of healthcare professionals in South Africa have suffered verbal or physical abuse from patients, patients’ relatives or the public during...
A study is the first to look at the link between children's fingertip injures and abuse or neglect. The researchers used a New York state database that tracks medical...SA Provincial Health
The Eastern Cape government is clearly sick to its core, with the various government departments racking up in excess of 1.2m days of sick leave in the past two and a...Weekly Roundup
A UK patient who demanded to be seen by a "white doctor" at a National Health Service (NHS) A&E and was turned away, then submitted a formal complaint to the...Weekly Roundup
In the aftermath of the Life Esidimeni tragedy in Gauteng and concerns raised about possible human rights violations at the Tower Hospital in the Eastern Cape, the South...
August 1st, 2018A large prospective study has found that sexual and physical abuse in childhood and adolescence is associated with a greater risk of endometriosis diagnosed during...
