South Africa's biggest HIV drug tender has been set aside by the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria), which found that the ...

While the public system suffers from too few resources, private doctors often give patients more medication than is safe, ...

Cancer drug prices are to be drastically reduced in India after a retired bank clerk took her case to the Supreme Court, reports The Guardian. She died in September 2022, while her case was still ...

Four actuaries from Medscheme, one of the country’s largest medical scheme administrators, presented evidence at the Actuarial Society of South Africa (ASSA) convention in Cape Town recently on the ...

A recent study of 10 different dietary patterns by DZNE (the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases), has found that healthy eating, generally, is associated with slower biological ageing – and ...

A promising new treatment for knee arthritis may provide lasting relief for people struggling with osteoarthritis, and offer a potential alternative to joint replacement surgery by using tiny, ...

Dr Shivani Chirkut, medico-legal consultant, and Christine Groenewald, operational team lead at Medical Protection, discuss the importance of ensuring the patient’s voice remains heard when family and ...

A public inquiry in Britain has found appalling lapses in government decisions made during the pandemic, which, among other things, allowed Covid-19 to spread “like wildfire” among vulnerable and ...

Ending the practice of immunising all newborns against hepatitis B, as Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has recommended, would sharply increase the number of chronic infections and put more than ...

Despite at least 830 people having been affected by the contaminated water in Bronkhorstspruit, and having sought medical help for gastrointestinal problems, Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy ...

A family is questioning the decisions made by an emergency room doctor after a toddler was pronounced dead “in error” at Mercy Gilbert Medical Centre in Arizona, and later found breathing inside the ...

A small, preliminary single-arm clinical study found that after eight weeks of treatment, cognitive function score almost doubled in breast cancer survivors who were treated with the supplement ...