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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) appeals committee has instructed a medical scheme to fully fund a multimillion-rand treatment required by a 15-year-old suffering from a rare blood disorder – ...

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 ...

A chatbot helped a woman taper off a lifesaving drug and hide the plan from her doctors, leading directly to her death, according to her parents who have now filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, reports ...

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 ...

Two young doctors died from Ebola last week in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), bringing the number of healthcare professionals reported to have died from the epidemic to three, reports The ...