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

Provincial Health Departments are diverting funds for medical supplies, maintenance and other operating costs to meet medical ...

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

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

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 ...

Although surgical removal of the larynx can improve the survival odds for someone with advanced cancer of the voice box, the huge cost is their losing the ability to speak. Now, however, a skilled ENT ...

Women consistently experience more pain than men across 11 parts of the body, according to a global study spanning 118 countries, which also reported that across the sexes, the sharpest increases in ...

The US Government agency charged with combating disease outbreaks abroad is shrinking as Donald Trump’s “America First” approach to foreign policy takes hold, with concerned experts warning of the ...

Three people have received an innovative treatment designed to rejuvenate vision cells – which could, say the scientists, be just the beginning and offer hope for the reprogramming of other, different ...

The lack of consequence management in the National Department of Health for its complete lack of movement on its audit outcome for more than 10 years has been slammed by Parliament’s Portfolio ...

A young woman under psychiatric care in a US hospital had to undergo a colonoscopy after deliberately swallowing multiple nails, reports MedPage Today. The case was particularly unusual because most ...