On the morning of Monday, 1 June, around 7am, I was covering a story near Addington Gateway Clinic in Durban when a mother, holding her four-month-old baby, approached me. I was filming, and the ...

Due to extremely low insulin reserves, patients with this form of diabetes may develop dangerously low blood sugar when given insulin.

Elderly women who received the first roll-out of HIV treatment in 2005 and who are still alive have been “swallowed” by the healthcare system, with little long-term support available.

We are surrounded by daily noise that affects our hearing, without realising it. We often accept loud noise in traffic, shopping centres, restaurants, sports matches and music concerts as normal. The ...

“I used to see homeless people every day in South Beach, and it broke my heart,” says Yolanda Zikhali (47). “Some were hungry, weak and sick, while others had no one to care for them. I then thought I ...

A Friday night youth church gathering was supposed to be like any other for me. Instead, on this night in 2024, it ended with me collapsing in a bathroom and waking up in a hospital bed at Netcare ...

Forty-year-old Thulisile Nkosi* carefully counts the pills in her bottle before handing over a few to her friend. ”The tablets in the bottle are 28, so when I give her, I make sure I have some left ...

In Hoedspruit, along the R527, abandoned vendor stalls have turned into makeshift housing for 120 displaced people. They lost their homes in November 2025, when an unattended candle sparked a fire ...

South African health authorities are tracing 97 contacts of two patients confirmed to be infected with Hantavirus, for possible exposure to the virus. So far, 91 of the 97 contacts have been traced.

Hantavirus is not Covid-19. It is not easily spread; in fact, it’s unusual for the disease to spread from person to person. This is according to Professor Lucille Blumberg, an infectious disease ...