One in five public health facilities in South Africa were unable to supply at least one antiretroviral (ARV) or tuberculosis (TB) drug on the day they were contacted by...South Africa
The controversial study by Stellenbosch University researchers, which suggests Coloured women have an increased risk for low cognitive function, has been retracted,...South Africa
SA Health Department delays issuing export permits for human tissue is having severe consequences for international medical research trials, with some believing the...
April 24th, 2019
A 25-week-old unborn Johannesburg baby has become the first foetus in Africa to receive anaesthetic and undergo ground-breaking “keyhole” surgery to the spine....
March 20th, 2019The death rate among women undergoing a caesarean to deliver a baby is about 50 times higher in Africa than in most wealthy nations, Health24 reports that researchers...
March 13th, 2019One in six people not on treatment in a large South African household survey already had drug-resistant HIV and more than half of those on treatment had resistance to at...
March 13th, 2019
Professor Peter Zilla, head of the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Chris Barnard division of cardiothoracic surgery, has been awarded Austria’s highest national...
South Africa's national Health Department has withdrawn its instruction to provinces to charge foreign patients the maximum rate, saying the directive should never have...Weekly Roundup
A University of Cape Town tuberculosis research project is one of three winners of the first Africa-fcoused seed fund, which will bring together the UCT scientists in...
February 27th, 2019
The Lancet Commission on Obesity, three years in the making, has just been released. It is an infringement of personal freedoms and based on the misconception that...
