Health
Farmworkers want 67 pesticides banned
NGO says the pesticides are already banned in the European Union
News | 29 August 2019
Burn victims unable to get life changing treatment
South Africa’s only tissue bank has been empty the past two months
By Elsabé Brits
News | 26 August 2019
Mom loses court case but scores a bigger victory for Eastern Cape patients
Supreme Court of Appeal has called on health minister Zweli Mkhize to “urgently address” the dire situation at government hospitals in the Eastern Cape
Law | 16 August 2019
Western Cape health services paint bloody picture of gun violence
“We are doing battleground medicine,” says minister
By Elsabé Brits
News | 8 August 2019
NEHAWU demands dismissal of Limpopo MEC for Health
The union also calls for Director General to be given the boot following Auditor-General finding
Brief | 1 August 2019
HIV drug studies offer patients more choices
But new regimens are not problem-free
Science | 26 July 2019
Relief on the way for Western Cape’s overstressed post-mortem facilities
New R281-million Forensic Pathology Facility in Observatory has double capacity of Salt River
By Candy Chan
News | 18 July 2019
Cape Town’s children seem to be getting healthier
Cases of diarrhoea and malnutrition have dropped
By Elsabé Brits
News | 11 July 2019
South African researchers develop quicker way to detect drug resistance
Local man develops resistance to new TB medicine despite good adherence
By Elsabé Brits
Science | 10 July 2019