As daily cases of COVID-19 in South Africa reach 20,000, surpassing levels seen during the first wave of the pandemic, Steve Biko hospital in Pretoria is so full that staff are giving some patients ...

The coronavirus pandemic is having a knock-on effect on other vital health services in Africa as countries are forced to redirect already stretched resources, a regional head of the World Health ...

He arrived in a critical condition: dangerously low blood pressure, circulatory collapse, and an urgent need for mechanical ...

The National Orthopaedic Hospital, Jos, Plateau State, has commenced full orthopaedic services, marking a major milestone in the delivery of specialised healthcare across the North Central ...

Two families are reeling after discovering that their daughters, now 18, were swapped at birth at Mpilo Central Hospital on ...

Parents whose babies spend time in the NICU face far higher risks of depression and anxiety. New data reveal why support ...

Life expectancy in South Africa has increased by almost two decades in the past 60 years, yet the proportion of life lived in ...

Exactly one year after the launch of the Social Health Authority (SHA), cancer patients have taken to the streets of Nairobi to demand a better oncology package.

Through new guidelines released today in The Lancet Global Health, leading reproductive health agencies are calling for a ...

Sam Young, 58, died from a ruptured heart at a farm near her home in Baschurch, Shropshire, after her horse bolted before ...

Six critical patients were killed in a fire at the trauma center of the state-run Sawai Mansingh hospital in Jaipur late ...

Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town has one of the busiest emergency centres in the Western Cape. As it turns to the public to raise R20 million for the opening of a new emergency centre, Dr Deidre ...