Cape Town’s former Common Ground Church youth leader nicknamed the ‘Porn Pastor’ was sodomised by the family gardener from about the age of three or four and...
February 6th, 2019The editors of more than two dozen cardiology-related scientific journals worldwide have published a joint editorial to sound the alarm that medical misinformation is...
January 30th, 2019Current pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) strategies can slow roll-out and contribute to stigma surrounding PrEP use, found a study in The Lancet. The authors propose...
January 23rd, 2019After turning down placements at rural hospitals, hundreds of newly qualified doctors remain unemployed while the country’s rural state hospitals remain desperately...
South Africa’s medicines regulator has warned patients of disabling and potentially permanent side effects associated with quinolone and fluroquinolone antibiotics,...
December 12th, 2018
Not only are many science graduates in Africa unemployed but the situation is getting worse, fuelling a brain drain to Europe, the UK and North America, warned...
December 5th, 2018There was a time when HIV was untreatable, heavily stigmatised, and the benefits of testing weren’t as clear as they are now. But, writes Linda-Gail Bekker, professor...
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 21st, 2018
A novel SA technique not only improves the accuracy of ultrasound in assessing hydrocephalus, by analysing the dynamic properties of the back of the eye as a marker...
November 21st, 2018
Being the first black woman to obtain a PhD in nephrology, Dr Unati Nolubabalo Nqebelele described her achievement as bittersweet – and said she wondered why other...
