Over two-thirds of South African women risk developing cervical cancer, in light of a worrying local increase in Human Pappiloma Virus (HPV)-related diseases, the University of the Witwatersrand said on Monday.

Can Nanotechnology: the Science of the Small provide a solution to SA’s national health crisis? Find out at the next Speak2aScientist at Sci-Bono.

Gauteng has denied that hundreds of newly-appointed doctors at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital would not be paid because of a bureaucratic bungle.

The national health department says it is changing its approach from waiting for TB patients to come to hospitals and clinics, to going out and finding them.

LONDON – One in two men is affected by impotence at some point in their lives, with alcohol to blame more often than not, research shows.

LONDON – If you want to catch a man’s attention, don’t bother fluttering your eyelashes or flicking your hair. Just practise your pout.

JOHANNESBURG – Persistent efforts to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness haven’t succeeded as well as hoped, suggesting that new strategies might be necessary. For decades, a number of organisations have been trying to persuade the public that mental illnesses such as depression, alcohol dependence and schizophrenia are neurobiological disorders, not just people behaving [...]

JOHANNESBURG – Today’s gym apparatus often look like the Mars Lander. And yes, they have their uses. But if you’ve reached a plateau of muscular development, nothing helps you blast through it like that basic lump of iron, the dumbbell.

A near tripling of new HIV infections in Eastern Europe and Central Asia over the past nine years is frightening, the U.N.’s top AIDS official said Wednesday November 24.

A revolutionary contraceptive body cream which could replace the Pill has been developed by scientists