Elon Musk, depression and South Africa’s cowboy ketamine clinics
Ketamine has been used for decades as an anaesthetic drug, but in the past few years, more and more psychiatrists have been using it for hard-to-treat depression
Why so many newborns and foetuses are abandoned in landfills and the veld
Researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand have gathered data from the Diepkloof Forensic Pathology Service in Soweto to better understand why so many women turn to desperate measures instead of seeking legal and safe abortions
Toxic storm brewing in Soweto’s Snake Park neighbourhood
Residents living beside an old mine dump face health problems as floods and heatwaves worsen the dangers of mining pollution
Budget 2025: Jobs for only 800 of 1 800 unemployed doctors
This is despite vacancy rates of 5% to 22% in government clinics and hospitals
How South Africa’s HIV fight has changed
In 25 years, new infections have dropped from about 1 463 each day to about 370, but HIV ‘is still an issue’, experts say
TB talks: Will #UNGA78 change these three lives?
In the past five years, none of the targets political leaders adopted after the previous round of high-level discussions on the fight against tuberculosis at the United Nations General Assembly have been met
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[WATCH] Where SA’s specialist doctors go when managers aren’t looking
Government hospitals face shortages of specialist doctors. To make it worse, not all of them are showing up to work
WATCH: Could new abortion rules in the US affect the world’s biggest state HIV fund?
The US government has appointed the first African head of its Aids fund, Pepfar. John Nkengasong, a Cameroonian virologist
SA teens, you’re next in the queue for a vaccine — no parental permission required
Teenagers between the ages of 12 and 17 will be able to register to receive their Covid-19 jab from 20 October. This group will be given only one dose of the Pfizer vaccine, for now
Gift of the jab: Six tips for when you speak to the Covid unvaxxed
Vaccination campaigns that promote how having the Covid-19 vaccination will benefit individuals rather than society are more effective to convince people who are neutral or hesitant about getting vaccinated.