The plan to force some South African scientists to register with a professional body could protect people and the environment, but the current version lacks clarity, notes an editorial in the journal ...

The plan for the reformation of Kenya’s universal healthcare coverage that was implemented in 2023 – passed and approved within a record six weeks – is almost identical to one the country tried to ...

In March 2024, a pivotal clinical trial was launched to evaluate what might well become the first new tuberculosis vaccine on the market in more than a century. As anticipation mounts for the trial to ...

A former air stewardess for Air France has been victorious in her quest to have her breast cancer acknowledged as arising from her job, with a court ruling, for the first time, cosmic radiation as a ...

Researchers have found a way to slash the processing time for 3D-printed zirconia crowns from as much as 100 hours to under 30 minutes. The advance could eventually let dentists print strong, ...

If you’re a slow, plodding runner, you may doing your brain a favour, according to a recent study by scientists in Japan, reports The Washington Post. In their study, 10 minutes of super-slow jogging, ...

Despite the chronic shortage of emergency services vehicles countrywide, 41 ambulances bought by the City of Johannesburg – for a total of R16m – have been sitting idle for six years, because of red ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new pancreatic cancer drug, a pill that nearly doubled patients’ average survival times for one of the deadliest cancers when taken instead of ...

A study by a team of scientists from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has suggested that older people who typically had longer intervals between meals accumulated chronic diseases more rapidly over ...

Zanzibar’s Ministry of Health has held talks with the United States Embassy in Tanzania on the implementation of a health-sector co-operation agreement between Tanzania and the US, valued at around $3 ...

The response to the Congo’s fast-spreading Ebola epidemic has been hampered by a severe lack of funding and pervasive misinformation, according to people on the front lines, with the outbreak on track ...

The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health says that despite global supply-chain pressures having a huge impact on local essential medication stock, and resulting in shortages, every effort was being made ...