Millions of people use cannabis as a form of sleep aid, but despite the widespread view that it can help you get a good night’s rest, the evidence is starting to suggest otherwise – with scientists ...

Big Pharma in South Africa and the US is calling for urgent crackdown on illegal medicines, especially unregulated obesity drugs like retatrudite, which is being linked to at least two deaths overseas ...

In South Africa, tuberculosis is mainly diagnosed and treated in the public healthcare system. On paper, the private sector should also be able to deal with it, but in reality, TB care in this sector ...

Relentless efforts by an organised network of serial thieves to steal critical equipment from Free State hospitals is forcing the already strained facilties to outlay hundreds of thousands of rands in ...

In his third year at Wits, Dr Hussein Seedat says a lecturer told him he wasn't meant to be a dentist. By then he had already been before the exclusions committee twice. This time he wasn't excluded, ...

Global experts have warned that today’s decisions involving health, finance, climate, defence and security will determine how many years of good health future generations gain – or lose – to ...

Local business leaders and the HPCSA have urged doctors and practices to tighten measures to avoid illegal access to their prescription and ‘sick note’ pads, and for employees to be on guard when ...

Prescription is frequently raised as a defence in medical negligence litigation, particularly where a patient experiences an adverse outcome or ongoing complications but only seeks legal advice ...

A neurosurgeon from Pretoria who has spent six years claiming he was unlawfully arrested en-route to the hospital to prepare for surgery during the Covid-19 lockdown has lost his case and been ordered ...

A small trial has found that injecting saline around the trapped nerve could ease symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome for longer than a steroid injection, reports Science Alert. The condition develops ...

In a long-awaited judgment handed down last Friday, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has interdicted the Road Accident Fund (RAF) from making any deductions from compensation paid to claimants on the ...

Constantly rising and increasingly unaffordable medical aid hikes are pushing consumers to the limit, and the Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF) has said households cannot indefinitely keep absorbing ...