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Tower Hospital psychiatrist won't appeal Ombud's findings
Psychiatrist Dr Kiran Sukeri‚ who the Health Ombudsman accused of making false claims of ill-treatment of patients at the Tower Psychiatric Hospital in the...
Dangerously high BP spikes more prevalent in black adults
Black US adults experience a hypertensive crisis, at a rate that is five times the national average, according to a study presented at the...
Day-time sleepiness linked to Alzheimer's risk
Data from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Ageing, started in 1958, shows that adults who report being very sleepy during the day were nearly...
Gauteng specialist gets suspended jail sentence for culpable homicide
A specialist physician has been sentenced to six years imprisonment – suspended for five years – for culpable homicide after he bungled a procedure...
SA Heart and Stroke Foundation removes its logo from refined grains
The Heart and Stroke Foundation SA (HSFSA) regularly reviews the criteria for its Heart Mark endorsement programme, which is part of an ongoing effort...
Eastern Cape Health paid out unbudgeted R260m in 2017/18 lawsuits
The Eastern Cape Health and Education Departments are facing hundreds of lawsuits‚ with Eastern Cape Premier Phumulo Masualle admitting last week that the Health...
World hunger growing — WHO State of Food Security and Nutrition report
New evidence continues to signal that the number of hungry people in the world is growing, reaching 821m in 2017 or one in every...
More affordable SA health 'imperative' in SA — Afrocentric
Black-owned health-care group Afrocentric says that more affordable health-care models have become "an imperative" given that consumers are under intense pressure. Business Day quotes...
Fort Hare's Alice campus clinic languishes without medication
The campus clinic at the University of Fort Hare in Alice has received no medicines since the end of April this year, the dispensary...
400 Health Department employees protest over building safety
Around 400 national Health Department employees, who work at a building in Pretoria, staged a protest last week to demand that they be moved...