A throat ulcer. Bloody urine. A sick baby. That’s what smokers in other countries see. In South Africa? For now, it’s a tiny ...

Based on the best international studies, here are three ways we can reduce heavy drinking: Limit the advertising and promotion of alcohol, which influences young people to drink heavily at a time when ...

South Africa’s HIV programme is the biggest in the world, but now it’s been cut thin, with the loss of billions in US funding ...

In today’s newsletter, Zano Kunene looks at the reason fruit juice producers dodge warning labels. Sign up for our newsletter today. Apples, oranges and grapes are healthy fruits. But when they are ...

Ketamine has been used for decades as an anaesthetic drug. But in the past few years, more and more psychiatrists have been using it for hard-to-treat depression; in SA, that’s when at least two ...

Linda Pretorius is Bhekisisa’s content editor. She has a PhD in biosystems from the University of Pretoria has been working as a science writer, editor and proofreader in the book industry and for ...

Data in the Thembisa model shows that over the years, the number of people starting medication for the first time — in other words, those who have never been on treatment before — has shrunk, but at ...