February 24th, 2021The failure of South Africa's tobacco sales ban shows the "painful" limits to forcing social change, writes Stellenbosch University's Prof Willem Boshoff. The...
Emeritus Professor Jonny Myers, an occupational health and public health medicine specialist in the Centre for Environmental and Occupational Health Research at the...Medico-Legal Analysis
Anti-vaxxing beliefs and vaccine hesitancy among a significant number of South Africans may hamper vaccination efforts in this country, writes Prof Pierre de Vos in...
February 3rd, 2021The man who played an essential role in providing evidence to convict axe murderer, Henri van Breda, and child killer, Mortimer Saunders, has died following a battle...
A blood biomarker of tuberculosis discriminated between people at high risk for tuberculosis and those who remained healthy, but an effective preventive therapy for...
January 6th, 2021The British government, the NHS and the UK General Medical Council (GMC) need to reconsider their ‘unethical’ recruitment drive of overseas medical personnel,...
December 16th, 2020The COVID-19 pandemic is shedding light on how best to go about building National Health Insurance in South Africa – and what to avoid – writes Professor Steve Reid...
An “almost qualified” psychiatrist has been reported to the Health Professions Council (HPCSA) over alleged comments around “curing” transgender children,...
November 4th, 2020Tobacco control strategies in South Africa could be complemented by a harm reduction approach to reduce smoking rates faster, writes Marcelo Nico, MD of Philip Morris...
October 28th, 2020Top global infectious diseases scientist and US presidential adviser Dr Anthony Fauci told doctors in South Africa during a PPS-sponsored webinar that it should be known...