A breast cancer diagnosis and the illnesses that followed transformed Kwanele Asante into one of Africa’s most prominent ...

Some patients’ accounts raise tantalising questions about what happens inside a brain afflicted by dementia and whether ...

The Eastern Cape Department of Health is taking its fight against lump-sum payments for medico-legal claims to the Constitutional Court, punting alternative measures instead as part of a wider drive ...

A recent real-world study found that an FDA-cleared AI algorithm helped identify more brain aneurysms on CT scans, and suggests that combining AI with physician interpretation could improve detection, ...

How general anaesthetics work is still not fully understood, but experts believe they are revealing clues about the nature of consciousness, reports the BBC. In 1797, British naval commander Admiral ...

Scientists have identified two simple body measurements that together are linked to nearly double the risk of death, and ...

This is the third in a series of articles exploring record-keeping by Dr Volker Hitzeroth, medico-legal consultant, and Dr Yash Naidoo, dento-legal consultant at the Medical Protection Society.

A Boston, USA, judge ruled last week that the NPO that manages the organ transplant system in the country can’t wriggle out of claims it discriminated against black people seeking kidney transplants, ...

Plans for a brand new academic hospital in Gauteng are being advanced, says the Gauteng Department of Health, as are those for a 300-bed mother and child unit extension and some major and critical ...

Claims that Gauteng EMS staff were suspended for refusing to work overtime with extra pay have been denied by the Department of Health, reports EWN. Last week the DA claimed that 17 staff at the Selby ...

An international award was recently bestowed on Professor Tulio de Oliveira, director of the Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI) at Stellenbosch University, reocgnising his ...

With demand for private healthcare remaining consistent, Netcare has said it remains on track to deliver its full-year guidance, with total paid patient days (PPD) having increased and with mental ...