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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 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 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 ...

A complex trauma scenario was resolved with remarkable skill and precision recently at Netcare Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital, after a steel rod impaled a man who’d fallen off a ladder but who ...

Despite early cancer screening helping to save lives, most South Africans on medical aid who qualify for this have not used the benefits, and often get diagnosed late, leading to exorbitantly ...

Until now, it was unclear if statins – commonly prescribed for high cholesterol in people up to age 75 to lower heart attack and stroke risk – were effective in older people. But last week, research ...

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, ...