The plan for the reformation of Kenya’s universal healthcare coverage that was implemented in 2023 – passed and approved within a record six weeks – is almost identical to one the country tried to ...

The plan to force some South African scientists to register with a professional body could protect people and the environment, but the current version lacks clarity, notes an editorial in the journal ...

A former air stewardess for Air France has been victorious in her quest to have her breast cancer acknowledged as arising from her job, with a court ruling, for the first time, cosmic radiation as a ...

In March 2024, a pivotal clinical trial was launched to evaluate what might well become the first new tuberculosis vaccine on the market in more than a century. As anticipation mounts for the trial to ...

Researchers have found a way to slash the processing time for 3D-printed zirconia crowns from as much as 100 hours to under 30 minutes. The advance could eventually let dentists print strong, ...

If you’re a slow, plodding runner, you may doing your brain a favour, according to a recent study by scientists in Japan, reports The Washington Post. In their study, 10 minutes of super-slow jogging, ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new pancreatic cancer drug, a pill that nearly doubled patients’ average survival times for one of the deadliest cancers when taken instead of ...

Despite the chronic shortage of emergency services vehicles countrywide, 41 ambulances bought by the City of Johannesburg – for a total of R16m – have been sitting idle for six years, because of red ...

A study by a team of scientists from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has suggested that older people who typically had longer intervals between meals accumulated chronic diseases more rapidly over ...

In a case so rare it has not yet been contemplated by Queensland surrogacy laws, a woman gave birth to twin children with separate sets of biological parents last year, reports The Guardian. She had ...

The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health says that despite global supply-chain pressures having a huge impact on local essential medication stock, and resulting in shortages, every effort was being made ...

A multi-departmental parliamentary meeting is expected to be held over the precautionary suspension last week of Dr Stan Moloabi, principal officer of the Government Employees Medical Scheme (GEMS), ...