July 10th, 2019Cancer patients who refuse conventional treatment and opt for alternatives are two and a half times as likely to die within five years of being diagnosed....
Social media video posts, painting an unflattering picture of conditions in two Eastern Cape Health hospitals, have gone viral, spurring the department to launch...
April 28th, 2019Big Tobacco is increasingly using social media to find new ways to hook young people on smoking, circumventing decades of laws restricting the marketing of traditional...
February 20th, 2019
Dr Viwe Mtwesi, a young cardiologist who was labelled a "prostitute" on Twitter for the dress she wore, has opened a case a case of crimen injuria and defamation,...
January 14th, 2019Bad decision-making is a trait often associated with drug addicts and pathological gamblers, but what about people who excessively use social media? Michigan State...
November 28th, 2018A fifth of girls aged 17-19 and one in 10 boys the same age have self-harmed or tried to kill themselves, The Guardian reports the biggest research into young people’s...
Social media bots and Russian trolls spread false information about vaccines on Twitter, seemingly using vaccination as a wedge issue, to promote discord, according to...Weekly Roundup
Malaria is preventable and costs less than a cup of tea to treat. Yet South Africa continues to battle with a high incidence of the disease. The Times reports that this...
November 29th, 2017SA’s Health Department says all qualified final-year medical students, including those in ancillary services, will be get internships. However, the SA Medical...
November 1st, 2017‘Bonespiration’ — the celebration of skeletal images of bodies featuring protruding bones and pencil-thin limbs — is being promoted on social media, University...
