July 15th, 2020Are they "glorified wheelbarrows" or an "extremely innovative" solution to providing health services in the remotest parts of the Eastern Cape?
Controversy has been...
November 24th, 2019
In keeping with national and international literature, research from Walter Sisulu University showed a high prevalence of substance use in South African patients with...
September 11th, 2019
Seven years ago, rural Madwaleni Hospital in former Transkei was going through hard times, with only one doctor available. Today the hospital has greatly improved...
The national Health Department has announced that 87 South African medical doctors who were trained in Cuba had graduated at the Walter Sisulu University in Mthatha,...
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...
A non-targeted testing approached by the emergency department in a South African hospital revealed a high HIV prevalence with a significant burden of undiagnosed HIV...
January 31st, 2018
Unbelievable as it may sound, Dr Viwe Mtwesi (32), the country’s youngest cardiologist, is unemployed. This is according to a City Press report, which said that...
June 21st, 2017Africa’s youngest neurosurgeon, Mthatha-born Dr Ncumisa Jilata, reminds us day-after-day that education is a foundation for success and a bridge from our past to our...
The Grahamstown High Court has ordered a retired Mthatha surgeon and former medical school dean, to repay the R7m mistakenly put into his bank account by Metropolitan...Endocrinology
The prevalence of type 2 diabetes has 'increased hugely' in the Coloured population and may now outstrip its incidence in the Indian population, found a new SA...
