December 5th, 2018HIV-uninfected children born to mothers with HIV are prone to more severe infections, almost double the risk of dying before their first birthday, and are more likely to...
November 7th, 2018South African children – who usually do not wear shoes during physical activity – have better balance and can jump farther than their German counterparts who are...
October 31st, 2018In response to a Stellenbosch University study published in last week's MedicalBrief, Donald Dinnie, CEO of Natmed, says the growth in the number of medical negligence...
October 24th, 2018The failure of nurses at private hospitals to follow guidelines, as well as poor monitoring of patients, lies behind rocketing liability claims, according to a...
South Africa, where cultural beliefs can be an obstacle for men seeking health care and for the physicians who provide it, has one of the highest male infertility rates...
October 3rd, 2018Medical and healthcare scientists performed well in this year's annual National Research Foundation (NRF) awards.
The Research Excellence Award for Next...
The results of a large, international systematic review show that tuberculosis treatment is successful in children with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).
An...Bio-Ethics
More than half of medical students at Stellenbosch University feel the practices of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) should be legalised in South Africa,...
June 13th, 2018South Africa may be slowly changing the way it speaks about suicide but mental health issues among medical professionals rarely make the headlines. Two new studies show...
The “greenest residence in Africa” has been named after the late Nkosi Johnson‚ once the world’s longest-surviving child born with HIV/Aids, reports The Times....
