A small trial has found that injecting saline around the trapped nerve could ease symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome for ...

A meta-analysis spanning participants across diverse populations from 18 countries has suggested women develop dementia at ...

South Africa has recorded four new lab-confirmed mpox cases, bringing the cumulative national total to 26 cases since 1 January 2026, up from 22, as health authorities intensify surveillance and urge ...

From blood pressure to ageing, research suggests the first 1 000 days of sugar exposure could leave a decades-long mark on ...

In South Africa, tuberculosis is mainly diagnosed and treated in the public healthcare system. On paper, the private sector should also be able to deal with it, but in reality, TB care in this sector ...

For years, concerned health experts have been calling for South African children to be universally vaccinated against ...

Global experts have warned that today’s decisions involving health, finance, climate, defence and security will determine how many years of good health future generations gain – or lose – to ...

American researchers have recommended temporarily cutting back on the sweet stuff during antibiotic treatment, saying that ...

Big Pharma in South Africa and the US is calling for urgent crackdown on illegal medicines, especially unregulated obesity drugs like retatrudite, which is being linked to at least two deaths overseas ...

A neurosurgeon from Pretoria who has spent six years claiming he was unlawfully arrested en-route to the hospital to prepare for surgery during the Covid-19 lockdown has lost his case and been ordered ...

Africa urgently needs investment in cancer research, diagnosis and prevention, says Nigeria’s Dr Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu, President-elect of the Union for International Cancer (UICC), who says just ...

Relentless efforts by an organised network of serial thieves to steal critical equipment from Free State hospitals is forcing the already strained facilties to outlay hundreds of thousands of rands in ...