Many people who end up in doctors’ rooms, clinics and hospitals are there because they are in pain. But pain management is ...

The US Food and Drug Administration is proposing changes to nutrient requirements for infant formula – the first in almost ...

New medicine applications that were used to legally prescribe medical cannabis are no longer being approved by the South ...

Twenty of this year’s more than two dozen confirmed mpox cases came after August, concentrated mostly within the Western Cape. Writing for Spotlight, Elri Voigt looks at how the virus has changed and ...

Living through a disaster like a flood led to mental health issues in about a quarter of people, found a recent study across four African countries. But the psychological fallout is often not ...

Conversations around health progress in Africa usually focus on lives saved, and rightly so. Across the continent, people are living longer than they did a generation ago. Advances in prevention, ...

Who gets to make decisions about an intersex child’s body? And how do we protect children from the stigma and harmful practices flowing from society’s expectations of what male and female bodies ...

Patients are seeking medical advice on Instagram and TikTok, where it’s hard to tell fact from fiction, yet it seems doctors are divided on whether medical professionals should be joining the ...

Researchers who found alarming levels of child abuse in a six-year study at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, have called for greater awareness from healthcare workers and others to ...

The National Health Department should assess the inclusion of boys in its public human papillomavirus vaccination programme. This, argues Professor Colleen Aldous for Spotlight, should account for the ...

Kratom, an Asian herbal supplement sought by many people seeking relief from addiction to prescription opioids and alcohol, is increasingly being pitched as a wellness product that purports to raise ...

Effort to loosen rules on unproven peptide drugs, favoured by US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, are facing resistance from the majority of Food & Drug Administration (FDA) scientists, reports ...