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...
The World Health Organization declared an international public health emergency on 17 May 2026 after an outbreak of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola in the Democratic...
Former rugby prop Rhys Thomas urges South Africans to register as organ donors after successful heart transplant Rhys Thomas, a 43-year-old former professional rugby player, has...
Gauteng Department of Health has announced a package of staffing, infrastructure and operational measures aimed at stabilising Dr Yusuf Dadoo Hospital in Mogale City as the...
A passenger who later died from hantavirus was briefly on board a KLM flight from Johannesburg to Amsterdam but was removed by the crew before the...