In the first reported case of the autoinflammatory VEXAS syndrome in South Africa, J Damelin, J Jacobson, C Bam, L Pillay and ...
Women who accidentally fall pregnant while taking a GLP-1 treatment for diabetes or weight loss are not at increased risk of ...
A breast cancer diagnosis and the illnesses that followed transformed Kwanele Asante into one of Africa’s most prominent ...
This week on Why Did I Become A Doctor?, in partnership with MedicalBrief, Dr Suhayl Essa talks medicine, comedy, burnout, ...
Under a new health accountability framework endorsed by the 81st UN General Assembly (UNGA) last month in New York, African governments have committed to subjecting their progress on maternal and ...
Some patients’ accounts raise tantalising questions about what happens inside a brain afflicted by dementia and whether ...
It isn’t always easy to know what to believe when it comes to cancer. In the Daily Maverick and Spotlight special series on cancer, Biénne Huisman asks whether cases are on the increase in South ...
Women with peripheral artery disease are less likely than men to receive a timely diagnosis or recommended care, which can further jeopardise cardiovascular health, warn experts in The Washington Post ...
Exorbitant lump-sum payments to medical negligence victims should be scrapped, and new laws should be introduced for a revised system with structured pay-as-you go settlements, the South African Law ...
Women who had just given birth in Eastern Cape hospitals had to sleep on cold floors and benches because of a bed shortage, the Commission for Gender Equality told the Portfolio Committee on Health ...
In efforts to sustain the use of GLP-1 drugs by its members – most of whom stop claiming for the treatment within six months – Discovery’s rewards scheme Vitality is stepping up its support, saying ...