The South African Medical Association (SAMA) has warned that bogus doctors are becoming more difficult to identify as fraudsters use increasingly sophisticated methods, and health authorities...
South Africans are right to feel like this winter’s flu is hitting harder, according to The Citizen. Health data and clinicians say influenza arrived earlier than...
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi told the National Council of Provinces that the Department of Health will submit 11 bids to the Budget Facility for Infrastructure (BIF)...
Portable study desks are being introduced to paediatric wards in Gauteng and North West to help children continue schoolwork while receiving treatment. A partnership between MiDesk...
South Africa’s booming non-surgical aesthetics sector has created a rapidly expanding underground market where invasive cosmetic procedures are being offered outside regulated healthcare environments, industry sources...
Medical-aid members in South Africa face growing cost pressure as younger, healthier people leave private schemes and chronic claims rise, industry figures say. The shift in...
Rachel Kolisi posts recovery update after shoulder operation Rachel Kolisi shared an update on the shoulder surgery she underwent last week, and apologised for a photo...
Summit in New Delhi delayed amid regional Ebola outbreaks The fourth India-Africa Forum Summit (IAFS), due to be held in New Delhi this week, has been...
What happened The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) detected two polio virus strains VDPV3 and nOPV2-L in wastewater samples from a treatment plant in Cape...
The Constitutional Court has declared the “Certificate of Need” (CON) provisions in the Health Care Act unconstitutional. The judgment written by Judge Kate Savage and delivered...