4+ hour, 5+ min ago   (918+ words) Gauteng’s public healthcare system, which features the highest overall health expenditure and total number of beds in the country, is losing at least 100 nurses a month, posing a major hurdle to the successful rollout of the National Health Insurance (NHI)....

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (604+ words) Health & Science Correspondent Stats SA has defended the integrity of its population estimates, which the health department said earlier this week may have skewed its estimates of childhood vaccination coverage. Public health experts in multiple provinces have questioned the crisis…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (845+ words) Health & Science Correspondent The health department has conceded that the precipitous decline in childhood vaccination rates it recently published may have been skewed by potentially inaccurate population figures provided by Stats SA. The issue goes to the heart of concerns…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (358+ words) Health & Science Correspondent Portuguese pharmaceutical group FHC will use its recent acquisition of Activo Health from JSE-listed Afrocentric to strengthen its presence in Africa, starting with a push into sterile injectables, senior executives said on Monday. FHC is a privately…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (464+ words) Would switching to diet foods and drinks help me get over the weight loss line ahead of December? I’ve been doing my exercise but I feel there’s not enough change. This question opens little portals to memories dotting my life....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (594+ words) Health & Science Correspondent South Africa’s biggest pharmaceutical manufacturer, Aspen Pharmacare, has pulled out of government plans for local production of Gilead Sciences’ HIV prevention shot lenacapavir, citing a lack of guaranteed demand, and is instead targeting Merck’s experimental pill, alimatravir....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (911+ words) In May I argued in these pages that the National Health Insurance (NHI) Act’s real weakness is not its ambitions and intentions but its architecture. That its financing had been deferred rather than designed. Nearly four months on, I want…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (661+ words) Health & Science Correspondent Lindiwe Mqatazana is not taking any chances with her health, or with that of her unborn child. “There’s a lot of guys who won’t tell you they are HIV positive. So I have to protect myself,” says…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago   (427+ words) We know that animal farming produces enormous greenhouse gas emissions, and so should we be more mindful about where we source our protein? Tim Cocker is a British YouTuber who hosts the podcast series Eggchasers. He has shot to South…...