Obsessing about sleep is becoming more and more common, with experts expressing concern and warning that the fixation can ...

Hundreds of thousands of women with recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) are being misdiagnosed, according to some ...

Natal, Hennie Hamilton lived with a Zulu family for four years – an experience, he tells Sue Segar for Spotlight, which ...

Rasonque, the new pancreatic cancer treatment from Revolution Medicines, illustrates the huge inflation in cancer drug prices ...

Dishonest doctors and lawyers who deliberately lie and cheat to help patients and clients avoid testifying in court are unethical and a disgrace to their professions, writes Professor Pierre de Vos, ...

New guidance – the first update since 2012 – from the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) and the American Headache Society ...

The Gauteng Health Department is investigating claims of extortion and corruption at the Germiston Forensic Pathology Service facility, where officials have been accused of demanding money from ...

Almost half of the world’s farmers are poisoned by pesticides every single year, according to a study published last week in Frontiers in Public Health, reports The Guardian. Using publicly available ...

A teenager in North Carolina, United States, who was infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba, died last week – the second such death in the country within two months, reports The Independent. The ...

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has spread across six provinces, placing severe strain on treatment centres and frontline healthcare staff, and with the WHO saying it urgently ...

A Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air report has revealed that pollution from Sasol’s Secunda plant can be linked to around 1 000 deaths and 260 new childhood asthma cases annually, creating a ...

A label change has been approved by the FDA for ferric carboxymaltose injection (Injectafer in the US but registered in South Africa as Ferinject and distributed by Aspen Pharmacare), warning of risk ...