A review of 37 studies found that when people stop taking weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, the weight comes back. Experts working in obesity aren’t surprised because, they say, just like type 2 ...

After a year of US funding cuts across global public health, including South Africa’s hard-hit HIV programmes, new realities ...

Many mothers who work as domestic workers have to make an impossible choice: keep your job or breastfeed your child. It’s a ...

As climate change intensifies, a toxic legacy grows more dangerous in Soweto. Residents living beside an old mine dump face health problems as more floods and heatwaves worsen the dangers of mining ...

On Saturday, the US state department issued details of who qualifies for a limited waiver during the Trump administration’s 90-day pause of foreign aid. The freeze has resulted in the temporary close ...

After a year of US funding cuts across global public health, including South Africa’s hard-hit HIV programmes, new realities are settling in. We spoke to Mitchell Warren from the New York-based HIV ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan and Anna-Maria van Niekerk introduce us to Buhle Sikade, 22, who for the past three years, has been taking the revolutionary anti-HIV jab, lenacapavir. Don’t miss out.

The health department says the problems with placements are overstated but experts wonder if provincial budgets are coping with rising costs.

The tobacco industry is getting ready for the final showdown as South Africa’s Tobacco Bill heads into its last rounds, pulling out its well-worn talking points on illicit trade and high taxes. We ...