Fruit juice can have as much — or more — sugar than soda or energy drinks. But unlike those drinks, juices won’t come with a warning label under SA’s latest draft regulations for food labelling. We ...

Elon Musk admitted to using it for depression, Friends actor Matthew Perry died from using too much of it and in South Africa, some ketamine healthcare providers are serving it up irresponsibly. So ...

More than half a million previously diagnosed people with HIV have been started on HIV treatment since the end of February, the health minister says. But can a big jump in 10 weeks really be? We look ...

Professor Renata Schoeman is a Cape Town-based psychiatrist and the co-author of South Africa’s <a href=" target="_blank" ...

In today’s newsletter, Mia Malan explains how red tape stops kids from getting ADHD meds. Sign up for our newsletter today.. COMMENT. Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects ...

South Africa has a high stunting rate, an indicator of chronic malnutrition that measures if a child is too short for their age, which has hovered around 25% since the 1990s.; That impacts our per ...

In today’s newsletter, Tanya Pampalone and Mia Malan share heartbreaking stories about the human cost of the Trump administration’s HIV funding cuts. Sign up for our newsletter today. “Hello, sis. How ...

In the latest episode of Health Beat, we unpack the growing use of the psychedelic drug, ketamine, to treat severe depression and chronic pain. Research shows it can work quickly to improve mood, but ...