Although a new draft Tobacco Bill for South Africa was published in 2018 to get the country’s nicotine habit under control, ...

In today’s newsletter, Tanya Pampalone tells us why we need our educators to better understand how to work with disabilities.

A hotter Earth is a threat to human health. It means more floods, droughts and heatwaves, which in turn make many diseases spread faster. Higher temperatures also exacerbate air pollution, resulting ...

On a recent day, Indira Govender, a doctor in a rural community in northern KwaZulu-Natal, was busy with her weekly session at the local clinic when she witnessed three people breaking down mentally.

In today’s newsletter, Linda Pretorius explains how two superbugs are causing half of the deaths among newborns. Sign up for our newsletter today. Over the past 10 years, researchers from the ...

In today’s newsletter, Tanya Pampalone explains the NHI’s policy paradox. Sign up for our newsletter today. One of the soldiers in the small army recently spat his message along the busy corridor that ...

Richard van Zyl-Smit is a pulmonologist and professor of pulmonology in the department of medicine at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital. He is also a principal investigator at UCT ...

In today’s newsletter, Tanya Pampalone explains that while the Tobacco Control Bill sits in Parliament, we’ve normalised nicotine addiction by allowing our kids to vape. Sign up for our newsletter ...

Undocumented migrants and asylum seekers are being turned away from government clinics and hospitals by xenophobic groups, while the NHI Act says they’re only entitled to emergency care. HIV activists ...

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