Health department unveils e-drug platform

On Monday, DA health officials Imran Keeka and Patricia Kopane tried to enter Addington Hospital’s oncology unit but were physically removed by security ...

Provincial projections show that the Cape Town metro is expected to experience the lowest rate of population growth, as it is growing from a higher population ...

ANC supports the policy proposal put forward by Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi

Tighter controls of hospital admissions and new rules for public servants who hop on and off the scheme pay off, says official

Findings in the SA Medical Journal suggest the five-year survival rate of 50% for SA’s children with cancer is lower than the 80% in high-income countries due ...

The province’s health MEC is facing calls for his removal as cancer patients wait months for diagnosis and treatment

Shortages of critical drugs when tenders lapse are caused by problems that are easily prevented with proper communication and planning, a study has found

'Schemes are guilty of withholding payment from doctors without proof of misconduct'

Overall, the National Health Insurance white paper is a great theoretical overview of the ideal healthcare system … except that it won’t happen, writes Johann ...

Economist warns on the use of 2010 figures in official government documents despite much-touted policy developments

The Health Minister says the first package of benefits will aid women, children and the elderly, with funds helping people ‘who are not on medical aid’

SA has culled more than a quarter of a million birds to contain the outbreak of a deadly and highly contagious strain of the virus

The Departments of Health, and Trade and Industry, say SA is a long way off the 50 pharmacists per 100,000 people international benchmark

But Sibongiseni Dhlomo has also tried to deflect blame for broken oncology machines from the department onto the company from which the equipment was bought

The South African Nursing Council should have completed its investigation before punishing all students who wrote the May exam, the union says

The timing is significant — just two weeks before the ANC’s policy conference